Miao Miao

Miao Miao

Personal information

Full name

Miao Miao

Nationality

Australian

Born

14 January 1981 (age 43)
Tianjin, China

Height

1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)

Weight

48 kg (106 lb)

Sport

Country

Sport

Table Tennis

Event(s)

Singles, Team

Medal record

Women's table tennis

Representing Australia
Commonwealth Games
	2006 Melbourne	Women's team
	2006 Melbourne	Women's doubles
Oceania American Championships
	2000 Koumac	Team
	2002 Suva	Doubles
	2002 Suva	Mixed Doubles
	2002 Suva	Team
	2004 Whangarei	Singles
	2004 Whangarei	Mixed Doubles
	2004 Whangarei	Team
	2006 Geelong	Doubles
	2006 Geelong	Mixed Doubles
	2006 Geelong	Team
	2008 Papeete	Singles
	2008 Papeete	Doubles
	2008 Papeete	Mixed Doubles
	2008 Papeete	Team
	2010 Auckland	Doubles
	2010 Auckland	Mixed Doubles
	2010 Auckland	Team
	1998 Bendigo	Doubles
	1998 Bendigo	Team
	2000 Koumac	Doubles
	2002 Suva	Singles
	2004 Whangarei	Doubles
	2006 Geelong	Singles
	2010 Auckland	Singles
	1998 Bendigo	Singles
	2000 Koumac	Singles
	2000 Koumac	Mixed Doubles

Miao Miao (Chinese: 苗苗; pinyin: Miáo Miao) (born 14 January 1981, Tianjin, China) is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games. Her best Olympic result was the quarter-finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won a silver medal in the teams competition and a bronze medal in the doubles with Jian Fang Lay. Her parents immigrated to Poland when she was a child, and later to Australia. She is the highest ranked Australian table tennis player at the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Virtually unknown in Australia she is well known in China.^[1]

Miao Miao is a right-handed, fast attack shakehand player (height: 1.62 m or 5 ft 4 in). She is coached by her father Miao Cang Sheng (苗仓生) who was a well known coach in China but then became the coach of the Polish women table tennis team in 1994. Miao Miao became the Polish women doubles champion in 1996. Miao Miao migrated to Australia with her father in 1997. She was a 15-year adolescent when she first arrived in Australia but then quickly established her as one of top table tennis players in Australia. Miao became Australian junior champion in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and Australian senior singles champion as well as winning a series of other events both in Australia and abroad. She also has the rare distinction of representing Australia at four successive Olympic games in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.

Her father was a table tennis player and coach, and her mother represented China in sprinting.^{[citation needed]} Miao speaks three languages, Chinese, English and Polish, and she enjoys playing table tennis.^{[citation needed]} She is one of the most successful Australian table tennis players.^{[citation needed]}