Rena Wang (born August 15, 1991)Team USA: Rena Wang
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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 p ...

player. She was invited by the

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine membe ...

to compete at the

2012 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 ...

in the women’s singles event. Her sister,

Iris Wang Iris Wang (born September 2, 1994) is an American badminton player who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Personal life Wang was born in Pasadena, California, on September 2, 1994, to Chinese parents. Her older si ...

, is also a badminton player and her doubles partner. Rena Wang won bronze in the women’s singles and women’s doubles events with her sister at the 2009 Pan Am Badminton Championships at

Guadalajara Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Mexico, while the Guadalaj ...

, Mexico.

School life

Rena Wang graduated from UCLA in 2014, with summa cum laude honors in the physiological sciences department.NBC Olympics: Rena Wang
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Team USA: Rena Wang
1991 births Living people American female badminton players Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for the United States American sportswomen of Chinese descent Badminton players at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in badminton 21st-century American women {{US-badminton-bio-stub