Wang Yuegu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wang Yuegu
Occupation	Table Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Jun 10, 1980(1980-06-10)
Age	44
Birthplace	Anshan
Country	China
Birth City	Liaoning
Horoscope	Gemini

Wang Yuegu Biography

Wang Yuegu is one of the most popular and richest Table Tennis Player who was born on June 10, 1980 in Anshan, Liaoning, China. In a celebration of victory in Singapore on the 25th of August Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports declared the announcement that Wang, Feng and Li were to be awarded the Pingat Jaza Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal). This is the third time that the award is presented to athletes, with the two previous recipients were bodybuilder Tan Howe Liang (1962) and swimmer Joscelin Yeo (2006).

Wang made her debut appearance as an Singaporean participant on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in Suncheon, South Korea, where she as well as Sun Beibei took the silver medal in the women’s doubles. In the following year she as well as Sun were able to win two silver medals in doubles competitions during the Chinese Taipei Open and Volkswagen (China) Open.

Wang represented Singapore for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the women’s table tennis team tournament with her teammates Feng Tianwei and Li Jiawei. On 14 August the team defeated the Netherlands 3–0 to reach the semifinals, but not before a gruelling five-game doubles match against the Dutch players Li Jie and Elena Timina which Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu eventually won 3–2. During the semifinals against South Korea’s Dang Ye-Seo, Kim Kyung-Ah and Park Mi-Young on 15 August, Wang and Li beat Kim and Park in the doubles match, but Wang lost her singles match to Dang. Singapore eventually triumphed over South Korea 3–2.

In 2006, Wang came third in the women’s singles at the ITTF Pro Tour Chinese Taipei Open held in Taipei, bettering that effort by taking the singles silver medal at the subsequent ITTF Pro Tour Korea Open. On 24 September, Wang achieved her first gold medal on the Pro Tour at the Japan Open in Yokohama, beating China’s Guo Yan who was then the number one seed and ranked third in the world. The achievement brought her into the top ten of the women’s world ranking list for the first time in her career. Wang repeated her gold-winning feat against 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. On 20 April 2008, top-seeded Wang beat Li again to the women’s singles title at the Brazilian Open. As a singles player, she was ranked seventh in the world as of August 2008.

Wang Yuegu (Chinese: Wang Yue Gu Pinyin: Wang Yuegu , pronounced [waNG YekuWang Yuegu was born on the 10th of June in 1980) is Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis athlete that was ranked in the top ten tennis players around the world. Wang made her debut appearance as an Singaporean table tennis athlete playing on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in Suncheon, South Korea, where Sun Beibei and her took gold in women’s doubles. On September 24, the year 2006 Wang won her very first gold on the Pro Tour at the Japan Open in Yokohama. She repeated the feat with her fellow countryman Li Jiawei on 12 November at the ITTF Pro Tour German Open in Bayreuth. In June 2007 Wang was able to help Singapore take home the women’s doubles, women’s and mixed doubles medals during the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Jaipur.

Wang Yuegu Net Worth

Wang Yuegu is one of the richest Table Tennis Player from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wang Yuegu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

On the 17th of August, Wang along with her teammates won Singapore an Olympic silver medal in table tennis after they lost against China in three games. In the doubles competition, Wang and Li were defeated by Chinese players Zhang Yining and Guo Yue. It is for the first time that Singapore has been awarded the Olympic medal since the country’s independence on the 15th of May, 1965. This medal is awarded almost 48 years following Tan Howe Liang won the nation’s first medal, a silver , in weightlifting in the category of lightweight in the 60th Summer Olympics at Rome.

Wang Yuegu was born on 10 June 1980 in Anshan, Liaoning. In December 2004, she moved to Singapore as part of the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme as it gave her the chance to show her skills at an international stage. In the following months, she became an Singapore citizen.

On 22 November 2008, despite crashing out of the singles event earlier, Wang and her teammates Feng and Li won the top title and US$8,000 at the ITTF Pro Tour ERKE German Open in Berlin. In an all-Singapore singles final at the Polish Open in Warsaw on 30 November, Wang took silver against Feng who achieved her first professional singles title. She was fifth in Today newspaper’s list of athletes of the year for 2008.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Wang Yuegu height 5 ft 2 in Wang weight 63 kg & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Wang Yuegu Dating?

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At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Wang and her colleagues Feng and Li beat the hosts to take the women’s team gold medal on 8 October. She also won the mixed doubles competition with Yang on 12 October, took silver with Feng in the women’s doubles on 14 October, and clinched the bronze medal in the singles the day before. Subsequently, at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, Wang and her teammates Feng and Li achieved the silver in the women’s team event on 16 November.

Facts & Trivia

Wang Ranked on the list of most popular Table Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Wang Yuegu celebrates birthday on June 10 of every year.

Together with Feng and Sun, Wang was a member of the team at the Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow that defeated China, 17-time winner and the reigning world champion, with a score of 3–1 on 30 May 2010. This was the first time that Singapore had won the event. In the game she played, Wang beat world number one Liu Shiwen. The Southern Daily published in Guangdong criticized Chinese sports authorities for permitting China-born players like Wang, Feng and Li to leave and play for other countries: “For the sake of developing the sport, China has been talking about ‘breeding wolves’. Well, now the wolf has grown up and it has returned home to bite.”