Victoria Na

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Victoria Na
Personal information
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1991-03-23) 23 March 1991 (age 32)
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
HandednessRight
Women's singles & mixed doubles
Highest ranking71 (WS) 29 November 2012
55 (XD) 31 January 2013
Medal record
Badminton
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Oceania Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Ballarat Women's singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Ballarat Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Victoria "Vicky" Na (born 23 March 1991) is an Australian badminton player. She is of Indonesian and Thai descent. She has won an Australian age national championship and participated in several international badminton competitions. Na made her Australian national badminton team debut in 2011 and was a member of the Australian 2012 Summer Olympics badminton team.

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Personal

Nicknamed Vicky, Na was born on 23 March 1991 in Carlton, Victoria and as of 2012 lives in Glen Waverley, Victoria. [1] [2] She is 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 60 kilograms (130 lb). [1] She attended Mount View Primary School, and then went on to high school at Wesley College (Victoria). She then completed her final high school years at Haileybury Girls College. [1] [2] As of 2012 she is working on a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Arts at RMIT, starting her degree in 2009. [1]

Career

Na plays singles women's badminton for the Badminton Academy of Victoria, located in Kilsyth, Victoria. [1] She started competing in the sport in 2000 as a nine-year-old, and has always been coached by her father Kobeng Na. [1]

In 2005, Na won the Australian junior national championships in the under-15 singles class. [1] In 2007, she won the under-17 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships. [1] In 2009, she won the under-19 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships. [1] She finished first at the 2011 Ethiopia International 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the singles competition. [1] She finished second at the 2012 Thomas Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event. [1] She finished first at the 2012 Uber Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event. [1] At the 2012 Yonex Australian Open Grand Prix Gold in Sydney, Australia in the singles event, she finished seventeenth. [1] At the 2012 Air Tahiti Nui International Challenge in Punaauia, French Polynesia she finished ninth in the singles event. [1] At the 2012 Thomas & Uber Cup in Wuhan China, she finished 9th in the team competition. [1] In June 2012, she was scheduled to participate in a badminton international event in Auckland, New Zealand ahead of the Olympics where she will have a bye in the first round. [2] [3] [4] In round two, she will meet Ching Chieh Tai from Chinese Taipei. [2]

National team

Na made her national team debut in 2011. [1] At the 2012 Oceania Championships in Ballarat, Australia, she finished third in the singles event and first in the team event. [1] In June 2012, she was named to Australia's badminton team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. [5] [6] [7] The Games was her first Olympic appearance. [1]

Achievements

Oceania Championships

Women's Singles

YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2012 Ken Kay Badminton Stadium,
Ballarat, Australia
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Verdet Kessler 17–21, 22–24 Med 3.png Bronze

Mixed Doubles

YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2012 Ken Kay Badminton Stadium,
Ballarat, Australia
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Chong Flag of Australia (converted).svg Raymond Tam
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Eugenia Tanaka
21–23, 18–21 Med 3.png Bronze

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's Singles

YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2011 Ethiopia International Flag of South Africa.svg Stacey Doubell 21–13, 15–21, 21–14Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2011 Zimbabwe International Flag of Austria.svg Claudia Mayer 21–18, 17–21, 19–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2011 Namibia International Flag of Austria.svg Claudia Mayer 25–27, 21–17, 21–17Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2011 Counties Manukau International Flag of the United States.svg Karyn Velez 12–21, 15–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2011 Altona International Flag of the United States.svg Karyn Velez 22–24, 17–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up

Mixed Doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2012 Auckland International Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Chong Flag of England.svg Tom Armstrong
Flag of England.svg Tracey Hallam
11–21, 7–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2011 Zimbabwe International Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Chong Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Lawrence Mdege
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Kudzai Panganai
21–3, 21–6Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2011 Namibia International Flag of Australia (converted).svg Luke Chong Flag of Egypt.svg Abdelrahman Kashkal
Flag of Egypt.svg Hadia Hosny
14–21, 21–16, 20–22Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
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