Ethan Lim

Name: Ethan Lim

Name in Chinese Character: 林劲恩

Date of Birth: 01-11-2002

Height: 181 cm 

Age began gymnastics and reason for starting: 4 years old. We visited a gym competition and someone approached my mother to place me in gym classes.

First Club: Prime Gymnastics Club

First Coach: Coach Brydon

Current Club: Prime Gymnastics Club 

Current Coach: Coach Will

Favourite apparatus: Pommel Horse

Favourite skill: Mikulak

Most difficult skill to learn so far: Swing to straight planche on rings

Personal Best Recorded and the Event in which it was recorded: 72.516 in IAA. National Championships 2022 FIG senior.

Major Sporting Achievements:

• 1st IAA National Championships 2022 (Senior)
• 4th Pommel Asian Junior Cup 2019 (Junior)
• 1st Team SG Open 2019 (Junior)
• 2nd IAA SG Open 2019 (Junior)
• 1st IAA National Championships 2019 (Junior)

Previous Sports Awards / MAP Awards received: 

• Peter Lim Scholarship 2017, 2019, 2020
• Chiam See Tong Sports Fund

Sporting motto or saying: Train productive

Most admired sports person: Kohei Uchimura

Who is your favourite gymnast and why? : Stephen Nedoroscik. His pommel routines are very therapeutic to watch.

Favourite music: Indie 

Favourite movie: A silent voice

My favourite local dish is: Egg Prata because it is tasty. 

My main support group consist of: Friends and Family. 

If I was not an athlete, I would like to be: An educator

Top 3 items in my bucket list includes:

• Be a missionary for a year
• Skydive
• Go to the US to hear my favourite band Hippo Campus lice

What is the greatest challenge you have faced in your sporting career? How did you overcome that?

Wrist and elbow injuries. Taking time to rest and focus on recovery.

Any other pre-competition routines that you practice besides warm up? : Breathe and pray