| Birth Place: | Singapore |
| Occupation: | Adventurer |
| Known: | First woman from Singapore to reach South Pole |
| Alma Mater: | Nanyang Business School |
Sophia Pang (born 1972) is a Singaporean adventurer. She is the first woman from Singapore to reach the South Pole.
Pang graduated from Nanyang Business School in 1994.[1] Before Pang left on her Antarctic expedition, she used to teach classes as a freelance fitness instructor.[2]
In August 2008, she found an online application for women to represent their country in Antarctica and she decided to apply.[3] She eventually beat out 70 other applicants to take the spot to travel to the South Pole. She joined a team, that was later funded by Kaspersky Lab, called the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, and which included women from New Zealand, Jamaica, India, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Ghana and Brunei.[4] [5] Pang was the person who secured the Kaspersky sponsorship for the team by contacting their Singapore distributor.
Pang underwent a five-month training program to get ready for the trip. The expedition left on 22 November 2009 from Messner Start, which is around 900 kilometers from the pole.[6] Pang and her team reached the South Pole at around 10 am, Singapore Time, on 30 December 2009.[7]
Pang was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.