Mia Audina

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Olympic medal record
Women’s Badminton
Silver	1996 Atlanta	Singles
Silver	2004 Athens	Singles

Mia Audina Tjiptawan (born 22 August 1979, known as Zhang Haili in Chinese) is a former female badminton player born in Indonesia, and finally competing for the Netherlands since 2000.

Mia Audina won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics for Indonesia.

She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Audina played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In women's singles, she defeated Nigella Saunders of Jamaica and Aparna Popat of India in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, Audina beat Tracey Hallam of Great Britain 11-0, 11-9 to advance to the semifinals. There, she defeated Gong Ruina of China 11-4, 11-2. Audina lost to Zhang Ning, also of China, 8-11, 11-6, 11-7 in the final to finish with the silver medal.

Audina also competed in women's doubles with partner Lotte Bruil. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Ella Tripp and Joanne Wright of Great Britain in the second. In the quarterfinals, Bruil and Audina lost to Ra Kyung-min and Lee Kyung-won of Korea 15-5, 15-2.

She finished as Women's Singles Runner-up in the Aviva Open Singapore 2006, a five star tournament.

In August 2006 she has announced that she will retire from badminton.[1]