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Jun 10, 1980 Anshan, Liaoning, China 43 years old
Singaporean table tennis player
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About Wang Yuegu
- Wang Yuegu (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Wáng Yuègu, pronounced [wa? ?êkù]; born 10 June 1980) is a China-born Singaporean table tennis 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 (ITTF) Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in Suncheon, South Korea, where she and Sun Beibei took the silver medal in the women's doubles.
- On 24 September 2006, Wang achieved her first gold medal on the Pro Tour at the Japan Open in Yokohama.
- She repeated the feat against her compatriot Li Jiawei on 12 November at the ITTF Pro Tour German Open in Bayreuth.
- 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. Representing Singapore for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she was a member of the silver medal-winning women's table tennis team, consisting of Li Jiawei, Feng Tianwei and herself.
- This marks 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 won the country's first and only medal to date, a silver in weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
- In May 2010 the trio of Wang, Feng Tianwei 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 in London.
- She announced her retirement from competitive sports in August 2012, subsequently giving birth to a Son and divorcing her Husband in 2015.
