| Amanda Yap | |
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| Yap at the 2025 World Championships | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | Template:Infobox person/birth Singapore [1] |
| Gymnastics career | |
| Country represented | |
Amanda Yap (born 3 November 2009) [2] is a Singaporean artistic gymnast. She qualified for the balance beam final at the 2025 World Championships, becoming Singapore's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships finalist. She is the 2025 Singaporean all-around champion and the 2024 Singaporean junior all-around champion.
Yap began training with the Singapore national team in 2022. [3]
Yap won the junior all-around title at the 2024 Singapore Championships. [4] At the 2024 Junior Asian Championships, Yap placed ninth in the balance beam qualifications but advanced into the final due to the two-per-country rule. She went on to win the silver medal in the final. [3] She also placed eighth in the floor exercise final, seventh in the all-around, and fourth in the team competition. [5]
Yap became age-eligible for senior competitions in 2025 and won the senior all-around title at the 2025 Singapore Championships. [6] She then made her senior international debut at the Asian Championships and placed 15th in the all-around. [7] She made her World Championships debut in Jakarta and advanced to the balance beam final in seventh place with a score of 13.300. This made her the first-ever gymnast from Singapore to advance into a World Championships final. [8] [9] In between the qualifications and the final, Yap flew back to Singapore to take her O-Level exams. [9] She went on to place sixth in the final with a personal-best score of 13.333. [10] [11]
As of 2025, Yap is a student at the Methodist Girls’ School. [8] She has an older sister named Emma who also competes for Singapore's national gymnastics team. [3] [9]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Singapore Championships | 9 | 9 | 7 | |||
| Singapore Open | 10 | 8 | |||||
| 2023 | Singapore Championships | ||||||
| Singapore Open | 8 | 6 | |||||
| Junior Asian Championships | 6 | 15 | |||||
| 2024 | Singapore Championships | ||||||
| Junior Asian Championships | 4 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Singapore Open | |||||||
| 2025 | Singapore Championships | ||||||
| Asian Championships | 7 | 15 | |||||
| World Championships | 6 |