Wushu exponent Kimberly Ong wins S'pore’s first medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games

Kimberly Ong’s medal is Singapore’s seventh in wushu at the Asian Games. - LIANHE ZAOBAO

HANGZHOU (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Kimberly Ong did not have many expectations going into the Asian Games, but she surprised herself on Monday (Sept 25) as she clinched bronze in the women’s changquan for Singapore’s first medal in Hangzhou.

Given that the wushu exponent had suffered a health scare at the start of 2023, was not competing in her pet daoshu and gunshu combined event and was unable to train as much as she would have liked owing to her studies, the Asiad debutante did not want to put too much pressure on herself.