Ng Mui Wui Explained

Ng Mui Wui
Birth Date:31 March 1997
Birth Place:British Hong Kong
Playingstyle:Right-handed shakehand grip
Disability Class:11
Highest Rank:2 (September 2019)[1]
Current Rank:2
Height:164 cm
Weight:42 kg[2]

Ng Mui Wui (born 31 March 1997) is a para table tennis player from Hong Kong. She won a bronze at the women's Class 11 singles event held at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Ng has congenital intellectual disability.[3]

Career

Ng's first table tennis tournament was the 2011 Asian and Oceanic Championships. She won a silver medal at the 2014 Asian Para Games's individual Class 11 event. Later, she went on to represent Hong Kong at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, where she advanced until the semifinals of Women's individual – Class 11 event but lost to Natalia Kosmina of Ukraine. In the bronze medal match she defeated Wong Ka Man of her own country and secured the first medal for Hong Kong at the 2016 Paralympics.[4] [5]

In 2017 she won gold metals at the 4th Taichung Open for the Disabled's women's TT11 category and the team event of Asian Para Table Tennis Championships.[6] At the World Para Team Championships held the same year, her team secured the second position.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ng Mui Wui Ranking history. ITTF. 2019-12-13.
  2. Web site: Ng Mui Wui. International Paralympic Committee. 2 February 2020.
  3. Web site: Table Tennis: Ng Mui Wui. International Paralympic Committee. 22 November 2017.
  4. Web site: Ng Mui Wui. International Paralympic Table Tennis Committee. 22 November 2017.
  5. Web site: CE hails medal winners. Government of Hong Kong. 22 November 2017. 12 September 2016.
  6. Web site: Almost out in first stage, Nathan Pellissier records landmark win. International Table Tennis Federation. 22 November 2017. 24 July 2017.
  7. Web site: European success at the World Team Championships in Bratislava. European Table Tennis Union. 22 November 2017. 20 May 2017.