Mesinee Mangkalakiri
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| Country |
 United States | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
21 April 1983 Los Alamitos, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Garden Grove, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Tony Gunawan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 275 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 315 (21 February 2013) | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mesinee "May" Mangkalakiri (born April 21, 1983 in Los Alamitos, California) is an American badminton player of Thai descent.[1][2] She won a bronze medal, along with her partner Raju Rai, in the mixed doubles at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[3] She repeated her bronze medal performance with her new partner Bob Malaythong in the mixed doubles, and also, beat Canada's Fiona McKee and Charmaine Reid for the gold in the women's doubles at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4][5] Mangkalakiri is also a member of Orange County Badminton Club in Anaheim, California, and is coached and trained by former Olympic doubles champion Tony Gunawan (2000), who is currently playing for the United States.[6]
Mangkalakiri qualified for the women's doubles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing fourteenth and receiving an allocated entry from the Badminton World Federation's ranking list. Mangkalakiri and her partner and former high school teammate Eva Lee, however, lost the preliminary round match to the Singaporean pair Jiang Yanmei and Li Yujia, with a score of 12–21 each in two straight periods.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ "Mesinee Mangkalakiri". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ "Asian Americans Cause a Racquet in Badminton". AsianWeek. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ "USA Badminton Announces New Board of Directors". Team USA. 14 April 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ↑ "U.S. swims to gold at subdued Pan Am Games". USA Today. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ "Beres set to upgrade his silver to gold". Ottawa Citizen (Canada.com). 18 July 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ Cazeneuve, Brian (3 March 2008). "The Road To Beijing". Sports Illustrated (CNN). p. 5. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's Doubles Round of 16". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ Miller, Jeff (9 August 2008). "OC badminton duo eliminated". The Orange County Register. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ "Tao Li qualifies for 100m butterfly final". The Straits Times (AsiaOne). 10 August 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2013.