王晨

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Wang Chen is a Hong Kong women's badminton player, later a coach. Born in Shanghai in 1976, she was the leading player of the Hong Kong women's singles team in the 2000s and was known as the team's number one, dominating the city's women's singles in the early to mid-2000s. Wang was originally a member of the Chinese national badminton team. She joined the Hong Kong team in 1999 and began representing Hong Kong internationally from 2002, rising to world No.1 in women's singles in 2003. In December 2006, at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, she beat her teammate Yip Pui-yin 21-14, 22-20 in the women's singles final to take the gold medal, the first time Hong Kong players had filled both the gold and silver positions in women's singles at an Asian Games. She won the women's singles title at the Asian Badminton Championships three times (2003, 2005 and 2006) and was runner-up in the women's singles at the 2007 BWF World Championships. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games she finished fifth in the women's singles. After retiring Wang moved into coaching, signing with the Hong Kong Sports Institute to become a coach of the Hong Kong badminton team; before formally moving across she had already taken on coaching duties to prepare for the transition. In 2023 she was part of the Hong Kong, China delegation for the badminton events at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in a coaching capacity.