Wang Yuegu

Wang Yuegu
At a ceremony to welcome Team Singapore home from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, 25 August 2008
Personal information
Full nameWang Yuegu
Nationality Singapore
ResidenceSingapore
Born (1980-06-10) 10 June 1980 (age 44)
Anshan, Liaoning
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight63 kg (139 lb) (2008)[1]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed shakehand grip[2]
Equipment(s)Nittaku blade[2]
Highest ranking5th (October 2010)[3]
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Singapore
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Team
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Moscow Team
Silver medal – second place 2008 Guangzhou Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 Dortmund Team
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Zagreb Doubles
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou Team
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Yangzhou Team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Lucknow Team
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Lucknow Doubles
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Mixed doubles
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Team
Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Jaipur Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Jaipur Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2007 Jaipur Mixed doubles
Gold medal – first place 2009 Glasgow Singles
Gold medal – first place 2009 Glasgow Mixed doubles
ITTF Pro Tour
Gold medal – first place 2006 Yokohama Singles
Gold medal – first place 2006 Bayreuth Singles
Gold medal – first place 2008 Berlin Team
Gold medal – first place 2008 Belo Horizonte Singles
Gold medal – first place 2010 Kobe Singles
Silver medal – second place 2005 Taipei Doubles
Silver medal – second place 2008 Warsaw Singles
Southeast Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2009 Vientiane Mixed doubles
Gold medal – first place 2009 Vientiane Team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Vientiane Singles
Silver medal – second place 2009 Vientiane Doubles

Wang Yuegu (Chinese: 王越古; pinyin: Wáng Yuègǔ, pronounced [wǎŋ ɥêkù]; born 10 June 1980) is a retired Chinese-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 marked 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 medal, 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.

  1. ^ a b Athlete biography: WANG Yue Gu, Beijing 2008, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, 2008, archived from the original on 18 August 2008, retrieved 18 August 2008.
  2. ^ a b WANG Yue Gu, International Table Tennis Federation, archived from the original on 23 August 2008, retrieved 23 August 2008.
  3. ^ World ranking record for WANG Yuegu (SIN), International Table Tennis Federation, archived from the original on 12 February 2011, retrieved 7 January 2011.