Mya Lay Sein Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Her Excellency
Wunna Kyawhtin[1]
Dr
Mya Lay Sein
Native Name Lang:Burmese
Office:Deputy Minister for Health and Sports
Term Start:2 July 2018
Term End:1 February 2021
President:Win Myint
Minister:Myint Htwe
Predecessor:Thaung Htike
Successor:Myo Hlaing
Office2:Vice Chairman of Myanmar Olympic Committee
Term Start2:2 July 2018
Term End2:1 February 2021
Nationality:Myanmar
Alma Mater:Institute of Medicine 1, Yangon
University of New South Wales
Occupation:Physiologist

Mya Lay Sein (Burmese: ; born 1954) is a Burmese physiologist, former badminton player[2] and Deputy Minister for Health and Sports for Myanmar from 2018 to 2021.

Career

Mya has always been very active in sports, culminating in 15 years of international representation in badminton for Myanmar team. She was a silver medallist in the 1979 WBF World Championships with partner Wai Nyunt in mixed doubles category. At the same time she has also studied at Yangon Institute of Medicine 1 and graduated in 1982.

She received the certificate of the Postgraduate Training Sports Medicine from the Singapore Sports Council, the degrees of MSpMed (Master of Sports Medicine) and PhD (Sports Medicine & Shoulder) from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She served as the vice president of Myanmar Badminton Federation. On 2 July 2018, the president Win Myint appointed her as the deputy minister for Ministry of Health and Sports.[3] [4]

Achievements

World Championships

Mixed doubles

Southeast Asian Games

Women's doubles

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1975Bangkok, Thailand Thida Aye Nyo Porntip Buntanon
Suleeporn Jittariyakul
Bronze
1979Istora Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia Thida Aye Nyo Verawaty Wiharjo
Imelda Wiguna
3–15, 8–15 Bronze

Notes and References

  1. Web site: အမျိုးသားအောင်ပွဲနေ့တွင် မဟာသရေစည်သူဘွဲ့ တစ်ဦး၊ စည်သူဘွဲ့ ၄၁ ဦး၊ သီရိပျံချီဘွဲ့ ၄၅ ဦးနှင့် ဇေယျကျော်ထင်ဘွဲ့ ၁၉ ဦး ချီးမြှင့်အပ်နှင်း.
  2. Web site: အောင်မြင်ကျော်ကြား တက္ကသိုလ်အားကစား.
  3. Web site: ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း. Myanmar President office.
  4. Web site: DR. MYA IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT-SPORTS MEDICINE AND HEALTH.