Background
Ang was taught to swim at the age of five by his father Ang Teck Bee (Chinese: 洪德美), who competed in judo at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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Ang was taught to swim at the age of five by his father Ang Teck Bee (Chinese: 洪德美), who competed in judo at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
He studied at Anderson Secondary School and Anglo-Chinese School.
As of 2012, he is Singapore"s Swimming National Head Coach. Ang was ranked fifth in a list of Singapore"s 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century by The Straits Times in 1999. Ang first represented Singapore at the 1977 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, where he was a silver medalist in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.
His first major international competition was the Hawaii International Invitational Swimming Championship, an event which included many top swimmers from countries that boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.
During the meet, Ang delighted the swimming fraternity by being the only non-American swimmer to qualify for the 50m freestyle final. As a result of his performance in Hawaii, Ang received a full athletic scholarship from the University of Houston in the United States.
World"s fastest
Ang was presented with the "World"s Fastest Swimmer" award for 1982. 1984 Olympics and after
(He was not able to compete in his pet event, the 50 m freestyle, as it did not become an Olympic event until 1988)
At the 1986 World Swimming Championships in Madrid, Ang finished fourth in the 50 m freestyle.
He held the fastest time by an Asian over 50 m freestyle until 1996.
His time of 22.69 seconds stood the Singapore national record for 33 years until Joseph Schooling broke it at the 2015 Southern Economic Association, USA Games. Coaching
Since retiring from top-level competition, Ang has devoted himself to coaching. He has worked with swimmers at all levels - from young children just learning how to swim, to national champions preparing to represent Singapore at top international competitions.
He founded the Australian Psychological Society Swim School in Singapore.