Victoria "Vicky" Na (born 23 March 1991) is an Australian
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
player. She is of Indonesian and Thai descent. She has won an Australian age national championship and participated in several international badminton competitions. Na made her Australian national badminton team debut in 2011 and was a member of the Australian
2012 Summer Olympics
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badminton team.
Personal
Nicknamed Vicky, Na was born on 23 March 1991 in
Carlton, Victoria
Carlton is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 3 km north of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne Local government areas of Vic ...
and lives in
Glen Waverley
Glen Waverley is a list of Melbourne suburbs, suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government ...
, Victoria.
[ She is tall and weighs .][ She attended Mount View Primary School, and then went on to high school at ]Wesley College (Victoria)
Wesley College is an independent, co-educational, open-entry private school in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1866, the college is the only school in Victoria to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) from early childhood to Year 12.
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. She then completed her final high school years at Haileybury Girls College.[ she is working on a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Arts at ]RMIT
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia.
Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, scienc ...
, starting her degree in 2009.[
]
Career
Na plays singles women's badminton for the Badminton Academy of Victoria, located in Kilsyth, Victoria
Kilsyth is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km east from Melbourne's central business district (CBD), located within the City of Maroondah and the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government areas. Kilsyth recorded a population of ...
.[ She started competing in the sport in 2000 as a nine-year-old, and has always been coached by her father Kobeng Na.][
In 2005, Na won the Australian junior national championships in the under-15 singles class.][ In 2007, she won the under-17 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships.][ In 2009, she won the under-19 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships.][ She finished first at the 2011 Ethiopia International 2011 in ]Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...
, Ethiopia in the singles competition.[ She finished second at the 2012 Thomas Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event.][ She finished first at the 2012 Uber Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event.][ At the 2012 Yonex Australian Open Grand Prix Gold in ]Sydney, Australia
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in the singles event, she finished seventeenth.[ At the 2012 Air Tahiti Nui International Challenge in Punaauia, French Polynesia she finished ninth in the singles event.][ At the 2012 Thomas & Uber Cup in Wuhan China, she finished 9th in the team competition.][ In June 2012, she was scheduled to participate in a badminton international event in Auckland, New Zealand ahead of the Olympics where she will have a bye in the first round.] In round two, she will meet Ching Chieh Tai from Chinese Taipei
"Chinese Taipei" is the term used in various international organizations and tournaments for groups or delegations representing the Republic of China (ROC), a country commonly known as Taiwan.
Due to the One-China principle stipulated by th ...
.[
]
National team
Na made her national team debut in 2011.[ At the 2012 Oceania Championships in ]Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ...
, Australia, she finished third in the singles event and first in the team event.[ In June 2012, she was named to Australia's badminton team for the ]2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
. The Games was her first Olympic appearance.[
]
Achievements
Oceania Championships
''Women's Singles''
''Mixed Doubles''
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Women's Singles''
''Mixed Doubles''
: BWF International Challenge
The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
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tournament
: BWF International Series
The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...
tournament
: BWF Future Series
The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...
tournament
References
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Australian female badminton players
1991 births
Australian people of Chinese descent
Living people
Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players for Australia
People from Glen Waverley, Victoria
Sportspeople from Melbourne
Sportswomen from Victoria (state)