Yeo Jia Min (R) shows a sparkling ring on her ring finger, with Pang Sheng Jun by her side in an Instagram post announcing their engagement on Dec. 30, 2025. Photo courtesy of Yeo Jia Min’s Instagram
Singapore’s top female badminton star Yeo Jia Min and former national swimmer Pang Sheng Jun have announced their engagement on social media, receiving congratulatory messages from their friends.
In an Instagram post on Dec. 30, Yeo wrote, “Yes to you. Yes to forever,” sharing photos of a sparkling ring on her finger, with Pang by her side.
However, the couple did not disclose when or where the proposal happened.
The post has garnered thousands of likes, along with congratulatory messages from their friends such as world No. 1 An Se-young of South Korea and Thailand’s former world champion Ratchanok Intanon, as well as current and former national athletes such as shuttler Jason Teh, sprinter Shanti Pereira, swimmer Quah Ting Wen, fencer Amita Berthier and ex-hurdler Dipna Lim-Prasad.
The couple have been dating for five years, The Straits Times reported.
They had reconnected during the Covid circuit breaker after initially meeting in 2015, Channel News Asia reported.
Yeo, 26, is a former world junior No. 1 and the first Singaporean, in either the junior or senior categories, to reach the top of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) ranking system.
In 2021 she was the first badminton player to make the year ending World Tour Finals and reached a highest World Ranking of 16 . She made her debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and won bronze medals at several SEA Games.
Pang, 33, is a former Singapore national swimmer. At the 2013 SEA Games, he won the gold medal in the men’s 4 × 200 m freestyle.
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