Vera Tan
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| Born | 16 March 1998 Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wushu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Taijiquan, Taijijian, Duilian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vera Tan Yan Ning (born 16 March 1998) is a Singaporean wushu taolu athlete who specializes in taijiquan, taijijian and duilian.
Career
[edit]At the 2013 SEA Games, Tan won the gold medal in duilian discipline with her partner Valerie Wee Ling En.[1][2] At the 2015 SEA Games, she won the gold medal in compulsory taijijian.[3] Tan competed in the 2016 World Taijiquan Championships, where she won the gold medal in Optional Taijiquan.[4]
At the 2022 World Games in Birmingham in the United States, Tan won the bronze medal in taijiquan & taijijian.[5]
Tan competed in the 2023 World Combat Games, where she finished in fifth place in the taolu all-round.[6] She then competed in the 2023 World Wushu Championships in Fort Worth, United States, where she won the bronze medal.[7][8]
In August 2024, Tan competed in the World Taijiquan Championships, where she won the gold medal in Optional Taijijian and New Yang Style Taijiquan as well as the bronze medal in Optional Taijiquan.[4][9] The following month, she competed in the 2024 Asian Wushu Championships where she won a bronze medal in taijiquan.[10]
Personal life
[edit]Tan married fellow wushu practicioner Jowen Lim on 28 December 2024.[11][12]
References
[edit]- ^ Low Lin Fhoong (2013-12-11). "Wushu gets S'pore's first gold". Today.
- ^ "Wushu–Women's Duilian" (PDF). 2013-12-10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-24.
- ^ Tan, Noah (2015-06-09). "Singapore Wushu lands two SEA Games gold". Today.
- ^ a b "Singapore's Vera Tan and Zeanne Law strike gold at World Taijiquan Championships". Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "Pool: Aloysius Yapp wins historic 9-ball bronze at World Games". The New Paper. 2022-07-22.
- ^ "Celebrations on hold after Jowen Lim bags wushu bronze at World Combat Games". The Strait Times. 2023-10-24.
- ^ "HYX 16th World Wushu Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Wushu Federation. 2023-11-20. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ^ "Vera Tan ends medal drought at World Wushu Championships as fiance Jowen Lim wins a silver". The Straits Times. 2023-11-19.
- ^ "Teacher Vera Tan and pupil Charlotte Ng victorious at World Taijiquan Championships". Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "SJM 10th Asian Wushu Championships - Results" (PDF). Wushu Federation of Asia. 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
- ^ "Valentine's Day with Team Singapore: Jowen Lim and Vera Tan". The Straits Times. 2025-02-13.
- ^ "Valentine's Day with Team S'pore: Meet 4 couples who share more than a love for sport". The Straits Times. 2025-02-14.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Singaporean wushu practitioners
- Singaporean people of Chinese descent
- Sportspeople of Chinese descent
- World Games bronze medalists
- World Games medalists in wushu
- Wushu practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games
- Wushu practitioners at the 2022 Asian Games
- World Games medalists for Singapore
- Medalists at the 2022 World Games
- Competitors at the 2025 World Games
- Competitors at the 2013 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games
- 21st-century Singaporean sportswomen