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16-year-old gymnast Amanda Yap clinches Singapore's first Glasgow Commonwealth Games medal
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16-year-old gymnast Amanda Yap clinches Singapore's first Glasgow Commonwealth Games medal The Games debutant took silver. SINGAPORE: Teenager Amanda Yap clinched Singapore's first medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games after a sensational performance in the women's balance beam final on Tuesday (Jul 28).
16-year-old gymnast Amanda Yap clinches Singapore's first Glasgow Commonwealth Games medal
The Games debutant took silver.
SINGAPORE: Teenager Amanda Yap clinched Singapore's first medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games after a sensational performance in the women's balance beam final on Tuesday (Jul 28).
The 16-year-old, who is making her Games debut, registered a score of 13.233 to take silver behind Australia's Breanna Scott (13.933). Canada's Lia-Monica Fontaine finished in third place.
This is Singapore’s first gymnastics medal at the Commonwealth Games since Hoe Wah Toon took bronze in the individual men’s artistic vault in 2014.
Last October, Amanda made history as the first Singaporean gymnast to qualify for a world championships final, eventually placing sixth in the balance beam.
She followed that up with a silver in the same event at the Bangkok SEA Games, ending Singapore’s two-decade-long wait for an individual SEA Games balance beam medal.
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