Jasmine Yeong-Nathan
Singaporean bowling player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jasmine Yeong-Nathan (Simplified Chinese: 杨于萱, born 1988) is a Singaporean ten-pin bowler. Yeong-Nathan was the first Singaporean to win the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in 2008.
Education
Yeong-Nathan studied at Singapore Polytechnic and Nanyang Technological University.[1]
Career
Yeong-Nathan is a Management Consulting Associate with KPMG which she joined since 2009.[2]
Bowling career
Yeong-Nathan was the 2005 and 2014 Singapore national bowling champion.[1]
Yeong-Nathan represented Singapore at the 2006 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup.[3]
At the 2008 AMF World Cup, Yeong-Nathan beat the defending champion Ann-Maree Putney from Australia in straight sets (263-222 and 298-215), becoming the first Singaporean ever to win an AMF World Cup title.[1][4][5] She was named Singapore's Sportswoman of the Year in 2009 for her victory at the 2008 AMF World Cup.[1]
In 2015, Yeong-Nathan failed to make it to the national team for the 2015 Southeast Asian Games due to a strong bowling team.[6] Head coach Remy Ong claimed that the strength of the team was very even and that Yeong-Nathan as the reserve player could make the team anytime if any team player is to exit the team.[6]
In 2016, Yeong-Nathan won bronze in the women's Masters event at the Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships held at Hong Kong.[7]
In 2023, Yeong-Nathan, alongside Lim Tong Hai, was the assistant chef-de-mission for the Singapore delegation to the 2023 SEA Games.[8]
Personal life
Yeong-Nathan is the younger sister of Jason Yeong-Nathan, who is also a former Singapore national bowler.[9]
Notes
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