Chong Jer Rong

 

 

Name: Chong Jer Rong 

Height: 165 cm 

Age began gymnastics and reason for starting:  I started when I was 8, and I just felt it was pretty fun and liberating to be off the ground.

First Club: Prime Gymnastics Club

First Coach:  Brydon Sy

Current Club: Prime Gymnastics Club

Current Coach: Will Tan 

Favourite apparatus: Pommel Horse 

Favourite skill: Wu Guo Nian 

Most difficult skill to learn so far: Triple Middle Russians

Personal Best Recorded and the Event in which it was recorded: Scoring 13.300 on the Pommel Horse 

Major Sporting Achievements:

  • South-East Asian Games 2021 – Team Bronze 
  • 2021 National Championships – 1st on the Pommel Horse 
  • 2019 Thailand Open – 1st on the Pommel Horse 
  • 2018 Singapore Open – 1st on the Floor Exercise 
  • 2017 Asian Junior Championships – 10th on the Pommel Horse and Still Rings 
  • 2016 Asean School Games – Team Bronze 

Competition Experiences:

  • South-East Asian Games: 2021, 2023
  • Asian Championships: 2023
  • Asian Junior Championships: 2017 

Sporting Motto or Saying: Compete like you're training and train like you're competing.

Who is your favourite gymnast and why ?: Kohei Uchimura. He simply takes gymnastics to next level in terms of the beauty of his skills, and how gracefully he executes them.

Favourite music: RnB and Indie

Favourite movie: Princess Mononoke

My favourite local dish is: Popiah

My main support group consist of: My family and friends from Gymnastics, NS and school.

If I was not an athlete, I would like to be: A musician

One interesting fact that most people do not know about me is: I like soldering and assembling my own in-ears.

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

Sustaining a SLAP tear, which made my shoulder joint unstable. I had to stay consistent with my rehab exercises to slowly get back to my best.