Miao Miao, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Miao Miao

Australian table tennis player

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1981

Place of Birth: Tianjin, China

Profession: table tennis player

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Miao Miao

  • Miao Miao (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Miáo Miao) (born 14 January 1981, Tianjin, China) is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games.
  • Her best Olympic result was the quarter finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney.
  • At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won a silver medal in the teams competition and a bronze medal in the doubles with Jian Fang Lay.
  • Her parents immigrated to Poland when she was a child, and later to Australia.
  • She is the highest ranked Australian table tennis player at the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  • Virtually unknown in Australia she is well known in China.Miao Miao is a right-handed, fast attack shakehand player (Height: 1.62 m).
  • She is coached by her father Miao Cang Sheng (???) who was a well known coach in China but then became the coach of the Polish women table tennis team in 1994.
  • Miao Miao became the Polish women doubles champion in 1996.
  • Miao Miao migrated to Australia with her father in 1997.
  • She was a 15-year adolescent when she first arrived in Australia but then quickly established her as one of top table tennis players in Australia.
  • Miao became Australian junior champion in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and Australian senior singles champion as well as winning a series of other events both in Australia and abroad.
  • She also has the rare distinction of representing Australia at four successive Olympic games in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. Her father was a table tennis player and coach, and her mother represented China in sprinting.
  • Miao speaks three languages, Chinese, English and Polish, and she enjoys playing table tennis.
  • She is one of the most successful Australian table tennis players.

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