Yang Siow Ming

Yang Siow Ming

Personal information
Nationality	Malaysian
Born	(1946-07-01) 1 July 1946 Kuala Kangsar, Malayan Union
Spouse	Thong Nyok Seen ​ ​ (m. 1972; died 2020)​
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	楊修明
Simplified Chinese	杨修明
Hanyu Pinyin	Yáng Xiūmíng
Sport
Sport	Field hockey

Yang Siow Ming (born 1 July 1946) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Yang was born in Kuala Kangsar to schoolteacher parents. The family later moved to Malacca, where Yang attended Malacca High School. He began his hockey career there, representing the school even as a first-former. He played other sports while in high school, and was named the school's Sportsman of the Year for five years running, but eventually dropped his other sports to focus on field hockey. He did not try out for the Malaysian team for the 1964 Olympics as he was sitting for his Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examinations that year, but two years later he represented his country at the 1966 Asian Games. There, he met his wife-to-be Thong Nyok Seen, a daughter of then-Olympic Council of Malaysia general secretary Thong Poh Nyen. Yang went on to represent Malaysia again at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games. After the 1972 Summer Olympics, he retired from sport and married Thong, with whom he had one son, Eugene. He took up teaching positions at Kajang High School in Selangor and then at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, and in 1996 became director of coaching at the Malaysian Hockey Federation, a position which he held until 1999. He was inducted into the Olympic Council of Malaysia's Hall of Fame in 2015. As of 2020, he lived with his son and daughter-in-law, and had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

External links

• Yang Siow Ming at Olympedia