YANG Rachel Isabel Bingjie

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Asian Games
NM	Women's Pole Vault	2010	Guangzhou, CHN	NM
Asian Championships
2	Women's Pole Vault	2007	Amman, JOR	3.50
DNS	Women's Pole Vault	2015	Wuhan, CHN	DNS
South East Asian Games
2	Women's Pole Vault	2015	Singapore, SIN	3.90
3	Women's Pole Vault	2017	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	3.60
NM	Women's Pole Vault	2023	Phnom Penh, CAM	NM
NM	Women's Pole Vault	2011	Indonesia	NM

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Speech Therapy and Hearing - Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, AUS

Husband David Yeo, son Zacchaeus [2013]

English, Mandarin

David Yeo [husband]

She underwent spinal surgery in December 2020. (straitstimes.com, 18 May 2021)

She suffered a calf injury in late 2019. (Instagram profile, 22 Jan 2020)

She sustained a back injury prior to the 2009 South East Asian Games and had to withdraw from the competition. An MRI scan confirmed that two of her inter-vertebral discs [L4 and L5] were protruded. (singaporeathletics.com, 06 Aug 2010)

In 2002 she suffered a knee ligament injury during her first pole vault training session and needed surgery. In 2004 she had another knee operation after injuring the meniscus in the same knee. (ASICS Facebook page, 14 Aug 2015; asiaone.com, 10 May 2015)

She first tried pole vaulting in 2002, and took up the sport seriously at age 23. (ASICS Facebook page, 14 Aug 2015; asiaone.com, 10 May 2015)

"I got into pole vaulting because of my husband. We met at Hwa Chong Junior College [in Singapore], where he was a coach in pole vaulting and where I was studying. But we dated only a few years later. I would wait around for him to finish coaching and he asked me to try pole vaulting." (asiaone.com, 10 May 2015)

To compete at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. (Instagram profile, 03 Jun 2023)

Winning a silver medal at the 2015 South East Asian Games in Singapore. (Instagram profile, 21 May 2023)

Her mother. (sg.news.yahoo.com, 14 Sep 2015)

"Life is never fair." (ASICS Facebook page, 14 Aug 2015)