Our Women’s Artistic Gymnasts, Nadine Joy Nathan and Emma Yap participated in the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. The competition ran from 30^th September – 8^th October 2023.

To qualify for the World Championships, our 2 Singaporean athletes had to compete and qualify at the recent Asian Championships held in Singapore earlier this year at OCBC Arena.

Qualification for Artistic World Championships entails athletes vying for a quota sport at their Continental Championships. For this World Championships the continental allocations were as follows:

• AGU allocated 4 teams and 8 individuals to qualify to the World Championships
• Since China and Japan had already earned their spot from the 2022 World Championships, this left AGU with 2 team spots at this year’s Asian Championships 2023.
• Following that, the 8 individual places were allocated to the top 8 gymnasts after omitting all the athletes from the 4 qualifying teams which is where both Nadine and Emma secured their place.

This was Emma’s debut in the World Championships, and Nadine’s 4^th World Championships. Despite their hectic schedule and back-to-back competitions following the Asian Games, the duo put up a good fight and successfully completed the competition. Their results are as follows:

Emma Yap:

• 92^nd Individual All Around
• 12.00 on Vault
• 10.733 on Uneven Bars
• 12.133 on Balance Beam
• 11.833 on Floor Exercise

Nadine Joy Nathan:

• 100^th Individual All Around
• 12.966 on Vault
• 11.466 on Uneven Bars
• 10.300 on Balance Beam
• 11.00 on Floor Exercise

We are proud that Emma and Nadine both performed to the best of their abilities and did us all proud. Great job ladies!