Ng Ming Wei
Singaporean taekwondo athlete
Ng Ming Wei (Chinese: 黃名緯, born 20 November 1994) is a Singaporean taekwondo athlete and internet personality. He won a Kyorugi gold medal in the 2017 Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships Men's -58 kg, becoming the first Singaporean to do so. He also won a bronze medal in the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Men's Under 54 kg.
Taekwondo career
During the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, Ng represented Singapore, attaining a bronze medal in the Men's -54 kg.
In 2016, Ng represented Singapore in the Asian Taekwondo Olympic Qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics in April 2016, where he lost 7–4 to Sergio Suzuki from Japan in the last sixteen and did not manage to qualify.
During the 2017 Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships, Ng won gold in the men's -58 kg category, against competitors from more than 13 countries. Ng also claimed a silver medal in the Canada Open International Taekwondo Championships that same year.
On 24 March 2019, local news network Mothership published an interview with Ng Ming Wei. Ng was dissatisfied with the level of support he had received from Singapore Taekwondo Federation (STF), Singapore's national governing body for taekwondo, despite winning several medals at international competitions. In response, the STF stated that Ng's achievements were "paltry".
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