Miao Miao

Miao Miao

Personal information
Full name	MIAO Miao
Nationality	Poland  Australia
Born	(1981-01-14) 14 January 1981 Tianjin, China
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Table Tennis
Event(s)	Singles, Team
Medal record Women's table tennis Competitor for  Australia Oceania American Championships Silver 2010 Auckland Singles Gold 2010 Auckland Doubles Gold 2010 Auckland Mixed Doubles Gold 2010 Auckland Team Gold 2008 Papeete Singles Gold 2008 Papeete Doubles Gold 2008 Papeete Mixed Doubles Gold 2008 Papeete Team Silver 2006 Geelong Singles Gold 2006 Geelong Doubles Gold 2006 Geelong Mixed Doubles Gold 2006 Geelong Team Gold 2004 Whangarei Singles Silver 2004 Whangarei Doubles Gold 2004 Whangarei Mixed Doubles Gold 2004 Whangarei Team Silver 2002 Suva Singles Gold 2002 Suva Doubles Gold 2002 Suva Mixed Doubles Gold 2002 Suva Team Bronze 2000 Koumac Singles Silver 2000 Koumac Doubles Bronze 2000 Koumac Mixed Doubles Gold 2000 Koumac Team Bronze 1998 Bendigo Singles Silver 1998 Bendigo Doubles Silver 1998 Bendigo Team

Miao Miao (Chinese: 苗苗; 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.^[1]

Miao Miao is a right-handed, fast attack shakehand player (Height: 1.62 m). She is coached by her father Miao Cang Sheng （苗仓生）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.

Miao Miao is clearly of good sports lineage. Her father was a good 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

References

• Australian Olympic Committee profile
• http://www.facebook.com/miaomiaoaus