Wang Yuegu (, ; born 10 June 1980) is a retired
Chinese
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-born
Singaporean
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table tennis
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player who was ranked among the top ten players in the world. Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean table tennis player on the
International Table Tennis Federation
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(ITTF)
Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in
Suncheon
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,
South Korea
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, where she and
Sun Beibei
Sun Beibei (; born 28 January 1984 in Shandong, China) is a Chinese-born Singaporean former table tennis player. She occupies the 20th place in the ITTF women's world ranking, as of October 2011.
Career records
Singles (as of 31 July 2010)
*W ...
took the
silver medal
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in the women's doubles. On 24 September 2006, Wang achieved her first
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
on the Pro Tour at the Japan Open in
Yokohama
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. She repeated the feat against her compatriot
Li Jiawei
Li Jiawei (; born 9 August 1981) is a retired Chinese-born former Singaporean table tennis player, four-time Olympian and twice Olympic medalist. She trained in Beijing's famous Shichahai Sports School with Olympic medalist Zhang Yining. In ...
on 12 November at the ITTF Pro Tour German Open in
Bayreuth
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. In June 2007, Wang helped Singapore sweep the women's team, women's doubles and mixed doubles gold trophies at the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in
Jaipur
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.
Representing Singapore for the first time at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, she was a member of the silver medal-winning women's table tennis team, consisting of Li Jiawei, Feng Tianwei and herself. This marked the first time that Singaporeans had won an Olympic medal since
Singapore's independence in 1965. The medal came 48 years after weightlifter
Tan Howe Liang
Tan Howe Liang, (; born 5 May 1933 in Shantou, Guangdong, China) is a Singaporean weightlifter who was the first Singaporean to win an Olympic Games medal. He did this in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he won the silver medal in t ...
won the country's first medal, a silver in weightlifting at the
1960 Summer Olympics
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in
Rome
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. In May 2010 the trio of Wang,
Feng Tianwei
Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competi ...
and Sun stunned the reigning champion China 3–1 in the
Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow, making Singapore world champion for the first time.
Wang won the women's team bronze medal with Feng and Li at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in London. She announced her retirement from competitive sports in August 2012.
Early years
Wang Yuegu was born on 10 June 1980
in
Anshan
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,
Liaoning
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.
In December 2004 she relocated to Singapore under the
Foreign Sports Talent Scheme
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as this offered her more opportunities to prove herself at the international level.
[.] She subsequently became a
Singapore citizen.
Career as national player
Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in
Suncheon
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,
South Korea
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, where she and
Sun Beibei
Sun Beibei (; born 28 January 1984 in Shandong, China) is a Chinese-born Singaporean former table tennis player. She occupies the 20th place in the ITTF women's world ranking, as of October 2011.
Career records
Singles (as of 31 July 2010)
*W ...
took the
silver medal
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in the women's doubles.
[.] Later that year, she and Sun went on to take two more silvers in doubles matches at the Chinese Taipei Open
[.] and Volkswagen (China) Open.
[.]
In 2006, Wang came third in the women's singles at the ITTF Pro Tour Chinese Taipei Open held in
Taipei
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, bettering that effort by taking the singles
silver medal
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at the subsequent ITTF Pro Tour Korea Open. On 24 September, Wang achieved her first
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
on the Pro Tour at the Japan Open in
Yokohama
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, beating China's Guo Yan who was then the number one seed and ranked third in the world.
[; .] The achievement brought her into the top ten of the women's world ranking list for the first time in her career. Wang repeated her gold-winning feat against compatriot
Li Jiawei
Li Jiawei (; born 9 August 1981) is a retired Chinese-born former Singaporean table tennis player, four-time Olympian and twice Olympic medalist. She trained in Beijing's famous Shichahai Sports School with Olympic medalist Zhang Yining. In ...
on 12 November at the ITTF Pro Tour German Open in
Bayreuth
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.
[.] In June 2007, Wang helped Singapore sweep the women's team,
[.] women's doubles
[.] and mixed doubles
[.] gold trophies at the 17th
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in
Jaipur
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. On 20 April 2008, top-seeded Wang beat Li again to the women's singles title at the Brazilian Open.
[.] As a singles player, she was ranked seventh in the world as of August 2008.
2008 Summer Olympics
Wang represented Singapore for the first time at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in the women's table tennis team tournament with her teammates
Feng Tianwei
Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competi ...
and Li Jiawei. On 14 August the team defeated the
Netherlands
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3–0 to reach the semifinals, but not before a gruelling five-game doubles match against the Dutch players
Li Jie and
Elena Timina
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Career highlights
;Summer Olympic Games:
:1992, Barcelona, women's singles, 1st round
:1992, Barcelona, women's doubl ...
which Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu eventually won 3–2. During the semifinals against
South Korea
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's
Dang Ye-Seo,
Kim Kyung-Ah and
Park Mi-Young
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on 15 August, Wang and Li beat Kim and Park in the doubles match, but Wang lost her singles match to Dang. Singapore eventually triumphed over South Korea 3–2.
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On 17 August, Wang and her teammates gained Singapore a silver medal in women's table tennis after losing to China in three matches. In the doubles match, Wang and Li were bested by China's
Zhang Yining
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and
Guo Yue. This is the first time Singapore has won an Olympic medal since
Singapore's independence in 1965. The medal comes 48 years after
Tan Howe Liang
Tan Howe Liang, (; born 5 May 1933 in Shantou, Guangdong, China) is a Singaporean weightlifter who was the first Singaporean to win an Olympic Games medal. He did this in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he won the silver medal in t ...
won the country's first medal, a silver in weightlifting in the lightweight category at the
1960 Summer Olympics
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in
Rome
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.
Wang and her teammates received
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into the third round of the singles tournament.
[.] However, Wang's Olympics came to an end after she was defeated 1–4 by the
Dominican Republic
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's
Wu Xue. Seeded fifth in the tournament, Wang was expected to overcome Wu, ranked 50th in the world by the ITTF, without difficulty but made numerous unforced errors. She had beaten Wu at all previous encounters. Team manager Antony Lee attributed Wang's loss to the fact that Wu had played above her usual standard, and that Wang had been unable to cope with the spin from Wu's left-handed serves.
At a victory celebration in Singapore on 25 August,
Vivian Balakrishnan
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, the
Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports
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On 1 November 2012, the MCYS was restructured and became the M ...
, announced that Wang, Feng and Li would be presented with the ''
Pingat Jasa Gemilang
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'' (Meritorious Service Medal). This is only the third time the medal will be awarded to athletes, the two previous recipients being weightlifter Tan Howe Liang (1962) and swimmer
Joscelin Yeo
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(2006).
In May 2009, the national table tennis women's team, composed of Wang and her teammates Feng, Li and Sun Beibei, were awarded the Team of the Year (Event) prize at the Singapore Sports Awards.
Events between 2008 and 2012
On 22 November 2008, despite crashing out of the singles event earlier, Wang and her teammates Feng and Li won the top title and
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8,000 at the ITTF Pro Tour ERKE German Open in Berlin.
[; .] In an all-Singapore singles final at the Polish Open in Warsaw on 30 November, Wang took silver against Feng who achieved her first professional singles title.
[; .] She was fifth in ''
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'' newspaper's list of athletes of the year for 2008.
On 24 May 2009, Wang and
Yang Zi beat
Gao Ning
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and Sun Beibei to the mixed doubles gold in an all-Singaporean final at the 18th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Glasgow. The next day, Wang also took the singles title from her teammate Yu Mengyu.
[.]
Wang participated in the
25th Southeast Asian Games in
Vientiane
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,
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. She was a member of the Singapore women's team with Feng Tianwei and Sun Beibei that beat Thailand 3–0 on 10 December 2009.
[; ; .] On 13 December, she and her partner Yang defeated compatriots Feng and Gao in an all-Singapore final in the mixed doubles.
[.] The following day, in another all-Singapore encounter, she and her partner Feng were beaten by Sun Beibei and Yu Mengyu in the women's doubles.
[; .] The following day, she picked up another silver in the singles competition after battling Feng.
[; .]
Together with Feng and Sun, Wang was a member of the team at the
Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow that defeated China, 17-time winner and the reigning world champion, with a score of 3–1 on 30 May 2010. This was the first time that Singapore had won the event. In the game she played, Wang beat world number one
Liu Shiwen
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.
[; ; ; ; .] The ''
Southern Daily'' published in
Guangdong
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criticized Chinese sports authorities for permitting China-born players like Wang, Feng and Li to leave and play for other countries: "For the sake of developing the sport, China has been talking about 'breeding wolves'. Well, now the wolf has grown up and it has returned home to bite."
On 3 May 2010, the
Singapore National Olympic Council
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named the national women's table tennis team of which she is a member together with Feng Tianwei, Zena Sim Kai Xin, Sun Beibei and Yu Mengyu as Team of the Year (Team Event) for 2009. Later in the year, she clinched the gold in the women's singles at the 2010 Japan Open of the ITTF Pro Tour on 4 July, beating Zhu Yuling 4–0 in less than half an hour.
[; ; .]
At the
2010 Commonwealth Games
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in
Delhi
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, Wang and her colleagues Feng and Li beat the hosts to take the
women's team gold medal on 8 October.
[.] She also won the
mixed doubles
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competition with Yang on 12 October,
[.] took silver with Feng in the
women's doubles on 14 October,
[.] and clinched the bronze medal in the
singles
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the day before.
[.] Subsequently, at the
2010 Asian Games
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in
Guangzhou
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, Wang and her teammates Feng and Li achieved the silver in the
women's team event on 16 November.
[.]
2012 Summer Olympics
Wang represented
Singapore
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at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in London. In the
women's singles, she was defeated 4–1 by Japan's
Kasumi Ishikawa
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in the quarterfinals on 31 July. She also participated in the
women's team competition with Feng Tianwei and Li Jiawei. They were beaten 0–3 by Japan in the semifinals, but took the bronze medal on 7 August by edging South Korea out 3–0. Feng defeated Kim Kyung Ah 11–9, 11–8, 4–11, 13–11; and Li also successfully fended off
Seok Ha Jung 11–5, 11–8, 6–11, 11–8. Li and Wang then succeeded in the doubles game against Seok and Dang Ye Seo 11–9, 11–6, 6–11, 11–5. This marked the first time Singapore had won more than one medal at an Olympic Games.
[. See also ; ; .]
Retirement
On 29 August 2012, Wang announced to ''The Straits Times'' that she had submitted her resignation from competitive sports on 24 August to spend more time with her mother and husband.
Wang indicated that she would like to start a family, and to study economics and management, or
sport psychology. She said: "It's the right time to leave. I'm getting old, I've been injured, and I've a family now. It's time to give our youth paddlers a chance. If it's still the three of us
eng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and herselfat
Rio in 2016, it's not good for the development of Singapore sport."
Personal life
Wang was married to Gabriel Lee, a Taiwanese based in Germany. In July 2016, she started divorce proceedings against Lee within a month of giving birth to her first child, and was divorced three months later. It was reported that Lee was having an affair with a mother of four children prior to the divorce.
Medals
See also
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Singapore at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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The following athletes have qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics, although the final selection of names for some events may c ...
*
Singapore at the 2012 Summer Olympics
*
Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were held from August 13 to August 23, at the Peking University Gymnasium. The competition featured the team events for the first time, replacing the doubles events competed in pre ...
*
Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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Notes
References
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External links
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Official website of the Singapore National Olympic CouncilOfficial website of the Singapore Table Tennis Association**
Official website of Team Singapore, managed by the Singapore Sports Council
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1980 births
Living people
Table tennis players from Anshan
Chinese emigrants to Singapore
Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent
Naturalised citizens of Singapore
Naturalised table tennis players
Chinese female table tennis players
Singaporean female table tennis players
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Singapore
Olympic bronze medalists for Singapore
Olympic medalists in table tennis
Olympic silver medalists for Singapore
Olympic table tennis players of Singapore
Recipients of the Pingat Jasa Gemilang
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore
Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Southeast Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore
Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Competitors at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games