Minnie Soo
Hong Kong table tennis player
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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]
Soo at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships | |
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Minnie Soo Wai Yam |
| Nationality |  Hong Kong |
| Born | 13 April 1998[1] |
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Table tennis |
| Club | Nippon Paint Mallets |
| Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip[1] |
| Highest ranking | 25 (February 2018)[2] |
| Current ranking | 161 (June 2022) |
Medal record | |
| Minnie Soo | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蘇慧音 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 苏慧音 | ||||||||||
| Jyutping | Sou1 Wai6 Jam1 | ||||||||||
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Early life 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]