Minnie Soo

In this Hong Kong name, the surname is Soo. In accordance with Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Minnie Soo and the Chinese-style name is Soo Wai Yam.
Minnie Soo
Soo at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships
Personal information
Full nameMinnie Soo Wai Yam
Nationality Hong Kong
Born (1998-04-13) 13 April 1998 (age 26)[1]
Hong Kong[1]
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed shakehand grip[1]
Highest ranking25 (February 2018)[2]
Current ranking161 (June 2022)
ClubNippon Paint Mallets
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Hong Kong
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Halmstad Team
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Jakarta Team
World University Games
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Chengdu Team
Minnie Soo
Traditional Chinese蘇慧音
Simplified Chinese苏慧音
JyutpingSou1 Wai6 Jam1
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSū Huìyīn
Yue: Cantonese
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Minnie Soo Wai Yam MH (Chinese: 蘇慧音, born 13 April 1998) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. In 2018, she won bronze in the women’s team event at the World Championship and the Asian Games. Later at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she also won a bronze medal in the women’s team event with Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching.[3]

Early years and education

Soo is the daughter of former Hong Kong table tennis player Soo Chun-wah. She was exposed to the sport at age 3½ and began receiving formal training at 5 years old. At 10 years old, she joined Hong Kong's youth table tennis team. She was a student of Diocesan Girls' School but dropped out in secondary three to become a full-time athlete.[4]

In September 2022, she started studying at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, majoring physics.[5]

Career

2021

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Soo, as well as her teammates Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching, qualified for the women’s team event. They won bronze after defeating the German team with 3-1, earning Hong Kong’s first medal in the Olympics team event and second medal in table tennis.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "スー ワイ ヤム ミニー（蘇 慧音）". T.League (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ^ "ITTF World Ranking - Soo Wai Yam Minnie". ITTF. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b Yamamitsu, Eimi (5 August 2021). "Table Tennis-Hong Kong bags first women's team bronze". Reuters. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Lee Ho-ching and Minnie Soo drop out of school and win Olympic medal". The Standard. 2021-08-05.
  5. ^ "東奧摘銅蘇慧音10年後重返校園 9月入讀科大物理" (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). inmediahk.net. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2022.