Matthew Yap Zhe Ren, 叶哲仁 (born 15 Aug 1999) is a Singaporean Powerlifter & Coach, a 4-time Asian Champion and a World Silver medallist.

[2][1][4][6][7] Yap won his first Asian Champion title and brought home four gold medals for the individual categories in the Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift & Total.

He also broke his first ever World record in the Squat, setting it at 208 kg which also gave him a gold medal.

[7] He ended off with claiming Gold medals for all the categories, with a 245kg Squat, a 155kg Bench Press and a 275.5kg Deadlift which is also the Asian record.

In this competition, Yap won the Best Lifter (champion) by IPF Points in the Men's Junior category.

Yap runs CoachbyMARC alongside his business partner, Yeong Qing Quan who is an Asian Squat gold medalist.

Both coach a range of athletes from newbies to national champions preparing to represent Singapore in international competitions.

Yap has been featured considerably on local media outlets in Singapore such as Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Today Online, Mothership.sg, etc.