Jet Ng
Jet Ng | |
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Full name | Jet Ng Shang Fei |
Born |
Singapore | 10 May 1998
Weapon(s) | Foil |
Hand | right-handed |
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) |
Club | Z Fencing International Academy |
Head coach(es) | Joseph Engert |
Jet Ng (born 10 May 1998) is a Singaporean foil fencer.
Career
Ng attained a 5th-place finish at the 2015 Cadet World Championships (men's foil), the then-highest achieved by a Singaporean fencer, before Ywen Lau won the 2016 Cadet World Championships in Women's Sabre.
Ng made his SEA Games debut in 2017, winning an individual bronze medal in the men's foil individual event.
Ng as of October 2017, taken a break from competition as he is serving his 2-year National Service in the Singapore military, training to be an Artillery Officer.
Awards
- 2017 SEA Games Individual - 3rd
- 2017 Singapore National Junior Championships Team - 1st
- 2017 Singapore National Junior Championships - 3rd
- 2016 Singapore National Championships Individual - 1st
- 2016 Singapore Junior National Championships Individual - 1st
- 2015 Asian Junior Championships Team - 3rd
- 2015 Asian Cadet Championships Team - 2nd
- 2015 Bangkok Junior World Cup Team - 4th
- 2015 World Cadet Championships Individual - 5th
- 2015 Singapore National Championships Individual - 2nd
- 2014 Southeast Asian Junior Fencing Championships Individual - 3rd
- 2014 Southeast Asian Cadet Fencing Championships Individual - 2nd
- 2014 European Cadet Circuit Halle Individual - 15th
- 2014 European Cadet Circuit Halle Team - 4th
- 2014 Asian Cadet Championships Tean - 3rd
Personal life
Ng was born on 10 May 1998 in Singapore. He attended Tao Nan School, Victoria School and Meridian Junior College.
Ng picked up fencing at age 8, after he walked past a fencing club and got interested. Ng fences in Z Fencing and got inducted as into the first batch of "Hall of Fame" in Z Fencing in 2015.
He is the nephew of acclaimed veteran actress, Huang Bi Ren.
He is currently undergoing his mandatory 2-year National Service. He is currently in Officer Cadet School (Singapore) training to be an Artillery Officer in the Singapore Military.
External links
- http://service.eurofencing.info/documents/vwn/jvc/lmh/CABRIES2013_FHC_equip.pdf
- http://service.eurofencing.info/documents/jlu/ctu/dsg/Haendelcup2014_Documentation_(1).pdf
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/fencer-jet-ng-clinches/1765524.html
- http://www.asianfencing.com/fca2013/pdf/2015-cadet-mf.pdf
- http://www.asianfencing.com/fca2013/pdf/10-MFT-CADET-AJCFC2013.pdf
- http://www.asianfencing.com/fca2013/pdf/2015-cadet-mft.pdf
- http://www.asianfencing.com/fca2013/pdf/2015-junior-mft.pdf
- http://www.asianfencing.com/fca2013/pdf/2012All%20Cadet%20results.pdf
- http://fie.org/fencers/fencer/28844
- http://vs.moe.edu.sg/news073.html
- http://southeastasiansports.blogspot.sg/2013/02/southeast-asian-fencing-federation.html