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{{short description|Australian table tennis player}}
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{{family name hatnote|Miao|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
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| fullname = Miao Miao 
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| nationality = [[Australians|Australian]] 
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|1|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tianjin]], [[China]]
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| height         ={{height|m=1.62}}
| weight         ={{convert|48|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
| country = {{ubl|[[Poland]]|[[Australia]]}}
| sport = Table Tennis
| event = Singles, Team
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{{MedalSport | Women's [[table tennis]]}} 
{{MedalCountry | [[Australia]] }} 
{{MedalCompetition | [[Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|Women's team}} 
{{MedalBronze |[[2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|Women's doubles}} 
{{MedalCompetition | [[Oceania Table Tennis Championships|Oceania American Championships]]}} 
{{MedalGold | 2000 Koumac | Team}} 
{{MedalGold | 2002 Suva | Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2002 Suva | Mixed Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2002 Suva | Team}} 
{{MedalGold | 2004 Whangarei | Singles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2004 Whangarei | Mixed Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2004 Whangarei | Team}} 
{{MedalGold | 2006 Geelong | Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2006 Geelong | Mixed Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2006 Geelong | Team}} 
{{MedalGold | 2008 Papeete | Singles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2008 Papeete | Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2008 Papeete | Mixed Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2008 Papeete | Team}} 
{{MedalGold | 2010 Auckland | Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2010 Auckland | Mixed Doubles}} 
{{MedalGold | 2010 Auckland | Team}} 
{{MedalSilver | 1998 Bendigo | Doubles}} 
{{MedalSilver | 1998 Bendigo | Team}} 
{{MedalSilver | 2000 Koumac | Doubles}}
{{MedalSilver | 2002 Suva | Singles}}  
{{MedalSilver | 2004 Whangarei | Doubles}} 
{{MedalSilver | 2006 Geelong | Singles}} 
{{MedalSilver | 2010 Auckland | Singles}} 
{{MedalBronze | 1998 Bendigo | Singles}} 
{{MedalBronze | 2000 Koumac | Singles}} 
{{MedalBronze | 2000 Koumac | Mixed Doubles}} 
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'''Miao Miao''' ({{lang-zh|c=苗苗|p=Miáo Miao}}) (born 14 January 1981, [[Tianjin]], [[China]]) is an [[Australians|Australian]] [[table tennis]] player who represented Australia at the [[2000 Summer Olympics|Sydney 2000]], [[2004 Summer Olympics|Athens 2004]], [[2008 Summer Olympics|Beijing 2008]] and [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012]] [[Summer Olympic Games]]. Her best Olympic result was the quarter-finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney. At the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] in Melbourne, she won a silver medal in the teams competition and a bronze medal in the doubles with [[Lay Jian Fang|Jian Fang Lay]]. Her parents immigrated to Poland when she was a child, and later to Australia. She was the highest ranked Australian table tennis player at the time of the 2008 Summer Olympics.Until the 2000 Summer Olympics she was virtually unknown in Australia she is well known in China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=4702 |title=ITTF_Database |accessdate=2011-06-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017020533/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=4702 |archivedate=17 October 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Miao Miao started her international table tennis in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Victoria |first=Table Tennis |title=The extraordinary, Miao Miao |url=https://www.tabletennisvic.org.au/news/the-extraordinary-miao-miao/ |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.tabletennisvic.org.au |language=en}}</ref> Miao Miao is a right-handed, fast attack shakehand player (height: {{convert|1.62|m|ftin|abbr=on|disp=or}}). She is coached by her father Miao Cang Sheng (苗仓生) who was a well known coach in China but then became the coach of the Polish women table tennis team in 1994. Miao Miao became the Polish women doubles champion in 1996. Miao Miao migrated to Australia with her father in 1997. She was a 15-year adolescent when she first arrived in Australia but then quickly established her as one of top table tennis players in Australia. Miao became Australian junior champion in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and Australian senior singles champion as well as winning a series of other events both in Australia and abroad. She also has the rare distinction of representing Australia at four successive Olympic games in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.

Her father was a table tennis player and coach, and her mother represented China in sprinting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hassett |first=Sebastian |date=2012-04-29 |title=Love of the game keeps Miao at table |url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/love-of-the-game-keeps-miao-at-table-20120429-1xt24.html |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref> Miao speaks three languages, Chinese, English and Polish, and she enjoys playing table tennis.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} She is one of the most successful Australian table tennis players.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cooke |first=Richard |date=2014-05-03 |title=Fast on her feet: Miao Miao, 33, table tennis player |url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2014/05/03/fast-her-feet-miao-miao-33-table-tennis-player/1399039200413 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=The Saturday Paper |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080814220104/http://www.olympics.com.au/Athletes/TheTeam/tabid/343/Athletes/TheTeam/tabid/344/Default.aspx?cId=13978&teamId=22 Australian Olympic Committee profile]
* [http://www.facebook.com/miaomiaoaus Miao Miao]'s [[Facebook]] account

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[[Category:Sportswomen from Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Olympic table tennis players for Australia]]
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[[Category:Australian people of Chinese descent]]
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[[Category:Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Table tennis players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Table tennis players from Melbourne]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in table tennis]]
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[[Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia]]
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[[Category:Table tennis players from Tianjin]]
[[Category:Naturalised table tennis players]]
[[Category:Table tennis players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Chinese emigrants to Australia]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen]]


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