Ng Mui Wui
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| Born | March 31, 1997 British Hong Kong[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 42 kg (93 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 2 (September 2019)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Traditional Chinese | 吳玫薈 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 吴玫荟 | ||||||||||
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Ng Mui Wui (Chinese: 吳玫薈, born 31 March 1997) is a para table tennis player from Hong Kong. She won a bronze at the women's Class 11 singles event held at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Ng has congenital intellectual disability.[4][1]
Career
[edit]Ng's first table tennis tournament was the 2011 Asian and Oceanic Championships. She won a silver medal at the 2014 Asian Para Games's individual Class 11 event. Later, she went on to represent Hong Kong at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, where she advanced until the semifinals of Women's individual – Class 11 event but lost to Natalia Kosmina of Ukraine. In the bronze medal match she defeated Wong Ka Man of her own country and secured the first medal for Hong Kong at the 2016 Paralympics.[4][1][5]
In 2017 she won gold metals at the 4th Taichung Open for the Disabled's women's TT11 category and the team event of Asian Para Table Tennis Championships.[1][6] At the World Para Team Championships held the same year, her team secured the second position.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Ng Mui Wui". International Paralympic Table Tennis Committee. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Ng Mui Wui". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2020.[dead link]
- ^ "Ng Mui Wui Ranking history". ITTF. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
- ^ a b "Table Tennis: Ng Mui Wui". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "CE hails medal winners". Government of Hong Kong. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Almost out in first stage, Nathan Pellissier records landmark win". International Table Tennis Federation. 24 July 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "European success at the World Team Championships in Bratislava". European Table Tennis Union. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.