| Rachel Yeoh Li Wen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rachel Yeoh Li Wen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 December 1998 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 151 cm (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2015–present (MAS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Ng Shu Wai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rachel Yeoh Li Wen (born 30 December 1998) is a Malaysian artistic gymnast. She is the 2021 Southeast Asian Games champion on the uneven bars and balance beam.
Yeoh was born in Pulau Pinang in 1998. She graduated from University of Putra Malaysia with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics in 2022. [1]
Yeoh competed at the 2015 Asian Championships where she helped Malaysia place fourth as a team. [2]
In 2017, while at a competition in Taiwan, Yeoh hyperextended her knee on vault which resulted in a posterior cruciate ligament injury on both knees. As a result, she had to miss the 2017 Southeast Asian Games. [3]
Yeoh returned to international competition in 2019 at the Stella Zakharova Cup. [4] In May, she competed at the Zhaoqing Challenge Cup where she placed seventh on uneven bars. After missing out on the Southeast Asian Games in 2015 and 2017, Yeoh finally competed at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games where she won the bronze medal on uneven bars behind compatriot Farah Ann Abdul Hadi and Đỗ Thị Ngọc Hương of Vietnam. [5]
The 2021 Southeast Asian Games were postponed until 2022 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. While she was there, Yeoh won the gold medal on the uneven bars and balance beam events and won the bronze medal in the all-around event behind Rifda Irfanaluthfi of Indonesia and Aleah Finnegan of the Philippines. [6] [7]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| Senior | |||||||
| 2015 | |||||||
| Asian Championships | 4 | ||||||
| 2017 | Stella Zakharova | 9 | |||||
| 2019 | Stella Zakharova Cup | 4 | 8 | ||||
| Zhaoqing Challenge Cup | 7 | ||||||
| Asian Championships | 5 | ||||||
| Southeast Asian Games |  | ||||||
| 2022 | Southeast Asian Games | |  | | 8 | ||
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