Minnie Soo
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Full name | Minnie Soo Wai Yam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Hong Kong[1] | 13 April 1998|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 25 (February 2018)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 28 (January 2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Traditional Chinese | 蘇慧音 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 苏慧音 | ||||||||||
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Minnie Soo Wai Yam (Chinese: 蘇慧音, born 13 April 1998) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. In 2018, she won bronze in the women’s team event at the World Championship and the Asian Games. Later at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she also won a bronze medal in the women’s team event with Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching.[3]
Early years[]
Soo is the daughter of former Hong Kong table tennis player . She was exposed to the sport at age 3.5 and began receiving formal training at 5 years old. At 10 years old, she joined Hong Kong's youth table tennis team. She was a student of Diocesan Girls' School but dropped out in secondary three to become a full-time athlete.[4]
Career[]
2021[]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Soo, as well as her teammates Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching, qualified for the women’s team event. They won bronze after defeating the German team with 3-1, earning Hong Kong’s first medal in the Olympics team event and second medal in table tennis.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "スー ワイ ヤム ミニー(蘇 慧音)". T.League (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "ITTF World Ranking - Soo Wai Yam Minnie". ITTF. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Table Tennis-Hong Kong bags first women's team bronze". Reuters. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Lee Ho-ching and Minnie Soo drop out of school and win Olympic medal". The Standard. 2021-08-05.
External links[]
- Minnie Soo at Olympedia
- Hong Kong female table tennis players
- Living people
- 1998 births
- Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in table tennis
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Hong Kong
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Olympic medalists in table tennis
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Hong Kong
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- Hong Kong expatriates in Japan
- Expatriate table tennis people in Japan