Minnie Soo
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Soo at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Minnie Soo Wai Yam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 13 April 1998[1] Hong Kong[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 25 (February 2018)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 161 (June 2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Nippon Paint Mallets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Traditional Chinese | 蘇慧音 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 苏慧音 | ||||||||||
| Jyutping | Sou1 Wai6 Jam1 | ||||||||||
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Minnie Soo Wai Yam MH (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 and education
Soo is the daughter of former Hong Kong table tennis player Soo Chun-wah. She was exposed to the sport at age 3½ 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]
In September 2022, she started studying at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, majoring physics.[5]
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 Yamamitsu, Eimi (5 August 2021). "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.
- ^ "東奧摘銅蘇慧音10年後重返校園 9月入讀科大物理" (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). inmediahk.net. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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 expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Expatriate table tennis people in Japan
- Olympic table tennis players for Hong Kong
- Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade
- Universiade medalists for Hong Kong
- Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis
- Alumni of Diocesan Girls' School