| Wong Hiu Ying Angel | |
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 Wong at the 2024 Cottbus World Cup | |
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Country represented |
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Born |
May 11 1987 |
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Years on National Team |
1998-present |
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Club |
GAHK |
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Coach(es) |
Poon King Hung |
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Current status |
Active |
Wong Hiu Ying Angel (born May 11, 1987) is an elite gymnast who represented Hong Kong at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Her best event is vault, having qualified as a reserve to the vault final at the Olympics. She is the first, and so far only, gymnast from Hong Kong to medal in the World Cup circuit. She has a balance beam mount named after her: a salto forward tucked with a half turn. She also designed the leotard she wore to the Olympics.
Career[]
2004-2012[]
Despite having made her international debut at the 2004 Pacific Alliance Championships, Wong's success came mostly from winning bronze medals on vault at World Cup meets. She also won silver on vault at the 2008 Asian Championships in Doha and the 2012 Pacific Rim Championships. She did compete at World Championships in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011, but did not qualify for the all-around or event finals. In 2011, she won bronze on vault at the Universiade in Shenzhen, China. She managed to qualify as an individual gymnast for Hong Kong at the London Olympic Test Event in January 2012, but did not make the all-around or event finals at the Olympics.
2013[]
She continued to compete after the Olympics, placing fourth on vault at the Cottbus World Cup. She competed at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, but missed the all-around and event finals. A week later, she competed at the East Asian Games in Tianjin, China, where she placed sixth on vault. That December, she placed fourth on vault at the Toyota International.
2014[]
In 2014, she placed seventh on vault at the Cottbus World Cup in March. Later that month, she won bronze on vault at the Doha World Cup. She competed at the Asian Games in late September, placing seventh on vault. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Nanning, China, but did not make the all-around or event finals. That December, she competed at the Toyota International, winning silver on vault and placing sixth on floor.
2015[]
In 2015, she placed seventh on vault at the Doha World Cup in March. In May, she placed sixth on beam and eighth on vault at the São Paulo World Cup. In late July, she placed seventh with her team at the Asian Championships in Hiroshima, Japan.
2017-2021[]
Although she missed the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she continued to compete. She won balance beam at the Hong Kong Open Championships in January 2017, and later competed at the Chinese National Games in early September, but didn't make the event finals.
She continued to focus on balance beam, competing on the event at the Koper World Cup in 2019 and 2021, but didn't make the event finals either time. She also competed at the 2021 World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, but didn't make any individual finals.
2022[]
At the Doha World Cup in early March, Wong won her first balance beam medal on the World Cup circuit: a bronze. She went on to compete at the Baku World Cup in early April, but didn't make the event finals. In June, she competed at the Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar, placing eighteenth in the all-around. In September, she competed at the Paris World Cup, but didn't make the event finals. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Liverpool, England, but didn't make any individual finals.
2023[]
Wong began her season at the Cottbus World Cup in February, the Doha World Cup in March, the Varna World Cup in May, and Tel Aviv World Cup in June. She only competed on balance beam in all four events, but didn't make the event finals any of the four times. She did finally make the balance beam final at the Mersin World Cup, where she placed sixth. At the World Championships in Belgium, she only competed on balance beam, placing ninety-fifth. She did not advance to the event final.
2024[]
Wong began her season at the Cairo World Cup in Egypt and the Cottbus World Cup in Germany, both held in February, and the Baku World Cup in Azerbaijan in March, but she didn't make the event finals either time.
Medal Count[]
| Year | Event | TF | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2004 | Pacific Alliance Championships | 9 | 15 | ||||
| 2006 | Pacific Alliance Championships | 5 | 13 | 5 | 8 | ||
| 2008 | Doha World Cup | 2nd | |||||
| Pacific Rim Championships | 15 | 6 | |||||
| Tianjin World Cup | 8 | ||||||
| Madrid World Cup Final | 8 | ||||||
| Doha Asian Championships | 2nd | ||||||
| 2010 | Ghent World Cup | 3rd | |||||
| Pacific Rim Championships | 13 | 6 | |||||
| Porto World Cup | 8 | ||||||
| Doha World Cup | 3rd | ||||||
| 2011 | Ghent World Cup | 7 | |||||
| Shenzhen Summer Universiade | 3rd | ||||||
| 2012 | Pacific Rim Championships | 13 | 2nd | ||||
| 2013 | Cottbus World Cup | 4 | |||||
| Tianjin East Asian Games | 6 | ||||||
| Toyota International | 4 | ||||||
| 2014 | Cottbus World Cup | 7 | |||||
| Doha World Cup | 3rd | ||||||
| Incheon Asian Games | 7 | ||||||
| Toyota International | 2nd | 6 | |||||
| 2015 | Doha World Cup | 7 | |||||
| São Paulo World Cup | 8 | 6 | |||||
| Hiroshima Asian Championships | 7 | ||||||
| 2017 | Hong Kong Open Championships | 1st | |||||
| 2022 | Doha World Cup | 3rd | |||||
| Doha Asian Championships | 18 | ||||||
| 2023 | Mersin World Cup | 6 |