Rena Wang
{{Short description|American badminton player (born 1991)}}
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Rena Wang (born August 15, 1991)[https://web.archive.org/web/20120425112026/http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/WA/Rena-Wang.aspx Team USA: Rena Wang] is an American badminton player. She was invited by the Badminton World Federation to compete at the 2012 Olympics in the women’s singles event.{{cite web|last=Oddi |first=Vicki |title=Trio named to USA Badminton Team for London |publisher=NBCOlympics.com |date=May 21, 2012 |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/badminton/trio-named-to-usa-badminton-team-for-london.html |accessdate=May 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606051307/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-blogs/badminton/trio-named-to-usa-badminton-team-for-london.html |archivedate=June 6, 2012 }} Her sister, Iris Wang, is also a badminton player and her doubles partner. Rena Wang won bronze in the women’s singles and women’s doubles events with her sister at the 2009 Pan Am Badminton Championships at Guadalajara, Mexico.
School life
Rena Wang graduated from UCLA in 2014, with summa cum laude honors in the physiological sciences department.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120817194539/http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=rena-wang/index.html NBC Olympics: Rena Wang]
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425112026/http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/WA/Rena-Wang.aspx Team USA: Rena Wang]
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Category:American female badminton players
Category:Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic badminton players for the United States
Category:American sportswomen of Chinese descent
Category:Badminton players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in badminton
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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