Jet Ng

Jet Ng
Full name Jet Ng Shang Fei
Born (1998-05-10) 10 May 1998
Singapore
Weapon(s) Foil
Hand right-handed
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st)
Club Z Fencing International Academy
Head coach(es) Joseph Engert

Jet Ng (born 10 May 1998) is a Singaporean foil fencer.

Career

Ng attained a 5th place finish at the 2015 Cadet World Championships (mens foil), the then-highest achieved by a Singaporean fencer, before Ywen Lau won the 2016 Cadet World Championships in Womens Sabre.

Ng is currently ranked 1 in the junior (U20) and senior category in Singapore. He has also represented Singapore in various age groups. He was ranked 31st in the European Cadet Rankings despite taking part in only 2 competitions in the 2015-16 season. He is known for besting some of the highest-ranked fencers in the world, including U20 World Ranked 8, Petar Files, as well as 2014 World Cadet Champion, Andzej Rzadkowski.

Awards

Personal life

Ng was born on 10 May 1998 in Singapore. He attended Tao Nan School and Victoria School. He is currently attending Meridian Junior College.

Ng picked up fencing at age 8, after he walked past a fencing club and got interested. Ng fences in Z Fencing and got inducted as into the first batch of "Hall of Fame" in Z Fencing in 2015.

He is the nephew of acclaimed veteran actress, Huang Bi Ren.

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