| Mikayla Angeline Yang 杨慧婷 | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 September 2007 |
| Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) [1] |
| Gymnastics career | |
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
| Country represented |  Singapore (2020–present) |
| Club | National Training Centre [2] |
| Former coach(es) | Tatiana Kartseva, Nastia Kartseva [3] , Irina Bessmertnaya [4] |
Mikayla Angeline Yang (born 6 September 2007) is a Singaporean individual rhythmic gymnast.
Yang took up rhythmic gymnastics at age 6 after her mother saw her friend's daughter doing it and thought it looked nice. [5] Her mother brought her to one of the gyms near their home, and she found that she really enjoyed the sport once she started doing it. [6] At a young age, Yang moved to the United States for better training opportunities. She currently spends nine months of the year training in Chicago, though she periodically returns to Singapore. To accommodate her training schedule, she attends school online. [7] Yang has often cited Son Yeon-jae as her favourite gymnast and source of inspiration. [8] [9]
Yang started competing internationally with her club, the National Training Centre, in 2019. Internationally, she obtained 2nd Place in the IAA Pre Junior Category of the 2019 Happy Cup in Ghent, Belgium, as well as 1st place in the Level 10 Hope Individual category at the 2019 Coaches Cup in Syracuse, New York [7] [10] She also placed 1st in the 2019 Singapore Open Gymnastics Championship in the IAA Age 12 Category. These achievements resulted in the Singapore Gymnastics Organisation conferring her the National Athlete of the Year Award for High Performance (Rhythmic Gymnastics) in 2020. [11]
Yang joined Singapore's Rhythmic Gymnastics National Junior Squad in 2020 for FY2020/2021, [12] while continuing to train in the US at the Texas Connections Academy of Houston. Some of her major sporting achievements at the Junior level included coming in as Champion in the Junior IAA Category for the 2021 Singapore Gymnastics National Championship. [13]
Yang became age-eligible for senior competitions in 2023. She made her international debut at the World Challenge Cup Portimao, where she took 17th place in the all-around. She placed 10th in both ball and ribbon qualifications, almost qualifying for the apparatus finals. In early June, she represented Singapore at the 2023 Asian Championships in Manila, Philippines and took 10th place in the all-around. [14] At the end of August, she competed at the 2023 World Championships in Valencia, Spain, and ended in 46th place in the all-around qualifications. [15]
In October, she competed at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, an experience she said she enjoyed as she liked seeing competitors from other sports. [7] She finished 13th in the all-around final. [16]
At the 2024 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she took 9th place in the all-around. She qualified for the ball final, where she finished 8th. [17] [18] In June, she competed at the Milan World Cup and finished in 33rd place in the all-around.
Her first international competition of 2025 was the International Tournament Sofia Cup, held 28–30 March, where she took 11th place in the all-around and won a bronze medal in the ball final. [19] In April, Yang competed at the Sofia World Cup, finishing 33rd in the all-around. Next, she competed at Tashkent World Cup, placing 21st in the all-around.
In May, she represented Singapore at the 2025 Asian Championships, held in her home country of Singapore, finishing 6th in the all-around after a small mistake during her clubs routine. With a score of 76.500 points total, she was the top-ranked gymnast from Southeast Asia. Yang said she was particularly proud of her ribbon routine. [20] On 18–20 July, she competed at the Milan World Cup, where she took 31st place in the all-around out of 74 gymnasts. [21] In late August, she was selected to represent Singapore as their only individual gymnast at the 2025 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was 36th in all-around qualifications and did not advance into the all-around final.
In December, Yang will be representing Singapore at the 2025 SEA Games held in Thailand.
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hoop | Sugar Like That by Gin Wigmore |
| Ball | Masciare Witch Mix by Faraualla | |
| Clubs | ||
| Ribbon | Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett | |
| 2024 | Hoop | |
| Ball | I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (Remastered 2001) by Frank Sinatra | |
| Clubs | ||
| Ribbon | ||
| 2023 | Hoop | Who You Really Are (From Sherlock) by Michael Price, David Arnold |
| Ball | I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (Remastered 2001) by Frank Sinatra | |
| Clubs | Great Balls Of Fire (From Great Balls Of Fire!) by Jerry Lee Lewis | |
| Ribbon | The Tsar's Bride: Overture by Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre & Fouat Mansourov | |