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.
Personal life
Yeoh was born in
Pulau Pinang in 1998. She graduated from
University of Putra Malaysia with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics in 2022.
Gymnastics career
2015–17
Yeoh competed at the
2015 Asian Championships where she helped Malaysia place fourth as a team.
In 2017, while at a competition in Taiwan, Yeoh hyperextended her knee on vault which resulted in a
posterior cruciate ligament
The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is a ligament in each knee of humans and various other animals. It works as a counterpart to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). It connects the posterior intercondylar area of the tibia to the Medial condyl ...
injury on both knees. As a result, she had to miss the
2017 Southeast Asian Games
The 2017 Southeast Asian Games (), officially known as the 29th Southeast Asian Games, or the 29th SEA Games, and commonly known as Kuala Lumpur 2017, were a Southeast Asian multi-sport event that took place from 19 to 30 August 2017 in Kuala ...
.
2019
Yeoh returned to international competition in 2019 at the Stella Zakharova Cup. 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
The 2019 Southeast Asian Games, officially known as the 30th Southeast Asian Games, or the 30th SEA Games, and commonly known as Philippines 2019, were the 30th edition of the SEA Games, Southeast Asian Games, a biennial regional multi-sport ...
where she won the bronze medal on uneven bars behind compatriot
Farah Ann Abdul Hadi and Đỗ Thị Ngọc Hương of Vietnam.
2022
The
2021 Southeast Asian Games were postponed until 2022 due to the global
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. 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.
Competitive history
References
External links
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1998 births
Living people
Malaysian female artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from Penang
SEA Games gold medalists for Malaysia
SEA Games bronze medalists for Malaysia
Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
University of Putra Malaysia alumni
SEA Games medalists in gymnastics