Wong Xin Ru

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Wong Xin Ru
Personal information
Born (2001-12-19) 19 December 2001 (age 24)
Singapore
Education National University of Singapore
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Sport
CountrySingapore
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Women's Table Tennis
Representing Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore
SEA Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Philippines Doubles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Vietnam Mixed Doubles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Vietnam Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Cambodia Doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Cambodia Team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham, England Team

Wong Xin Ru (born 19 December 2001) is a retired Singaporean table tennis player. She represented Singapore at multiple international competitions, including three SEA Games (2019, 2021 and 2023), 2022 Commonwealth Games, and various World Table Tennis (WTT) events.

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Education

Wong studied at the Singapore Sports School. [2] Wong graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2021 and paused her studies to train for qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. [2]

Wong had a placing at the National University of Singapore's College of Humanities and Sciences. [2]

Career

Wong was introduced to table tennis by her father at the age of nine. [3]

Wong became a full-time athlete in September 2021 after years of training and competing to train to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2] In March 2024, the table tennis team failed to qualify for the Olympics. [4]

During the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England, Wong won the gold medal in the table tennis Women's Team event [5]

In 2022, Wong secured two second-place finishes in Mixed Doubles with partner Koen Pang at both the WTT Feeder Varazdin and WTT Feeder Havirov. [6]

On 10 July 2024, at the age of 22, Wong announced her retirement from competitive table tennis to pursue her studies. [2]

Key career records

Legend : Med 1.png Gold Med 2.png Silver Med 3.png Bronze   QR: Qualifying Round

EventResultsDateCompetition
2019
Women's Doubles Med 3.png 7 December 2019 30th Southeast Asian Games
Philippines
2021
Mixed Doubles
(With Koen Pang)		 Med 1.png 18 May 2021 31st Southeast Asian Games
Hanoi, Vietnam
Women's Team
(With Zhou Jingyi, Zeng Jian, Goi Rui Xuan and Zhang Wanlin)		 Med 2.png 15 May 2021 31st Southeast Asian Games
Hanoi, Vietnam
2022
Women's Team
(With Zeng Jian, Zhou Jingyi and Feng Tianwei)		 Med 1.png 1 August 2022 2022 Commonwealth Games
Birmingham, England
2023
Women's Doubles
(With Zhou Jingyi)		 Med 2.png 14 May 2023 2023 SEA Games
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Women's Team
(With Zhou Jingyi, Zeng Jian, Goi Rui Xuan, Ser Lin Qian)		 Med 3.png 10 May 2023 2023 SEA Games
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Personal life

Wong is a vegetarian and had maintained a vegetarian diet throughout her table tennis career. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Home of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "National table tennis player Wong Xin Ru, 22, calls time on sporting career". The Straits Times. 10 July 2024. ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "Wong Xin Ru". www.teamsingapore.sg. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Lee, David (8 March 2024). "Singapore women's table tennis team fail to qualify for Olympics for the first time". The Straits Times . ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 30 December 2025.
  5. ↑ Lee, David (1 August 2022). "Commonwealth Games: Women's table tennis team deliver first gold for S'pore after beating Malaysia". The Straits Times . ISSN   0585-3923 . Retrieved 30 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Wong Xin Ru retires from competitive table tennis | Singapore Table Tennis Association". www.stta.org.sg. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Xin Ru's Hunger for Success… and Vegetarian Food!". Sport Singapore.
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