Mia Audina
Mia Audina Tjiptawan ( born August 22, 1979 in Jakarta ) is a former badminton player. By the year 2000, she successfully launched for Indonesia from 2000 to 2006 for the Netherlands. Audina played for the Dutch Badminton champion Conservatrix / bike.
Career
Audina began very early with the badminton. At the age of 11, she played at the highest level, but her parents reined in their athletic careers, as they should only finish school. After school is Audina concentrated fully under the training of their father to the sport and has become one of the best young players in Indonesia.
At the age of 13 years Audina became a member of the Indonesian national team. So she was the youngest player to ever start for Indonesia. In 1994 she won the national team the Cup. Audina made this for the decisive point win and became a popular hero. In the same year she won the world title with the national team.
At the age of 16 years Audina took in Atlanta for the first time in the Olympic Games and won the individual competition the silver medal. After that, her career came to a halt for a few years. She nursed her ailing mother until her death in April 1999. In July 1999, she was awarded by the Indonesian Badminton Association of the message that they would not be considered for the Indonesian national team.
In 1999 she married the Dutch gospel singer Tylio Lobman and moved to Rotterdam with him. There she took her intense badminton training again. As the Indonesian Badminton Association their plans to train in the Netherlands, but continued to run for Indonesia, did not agree, Audina took in 2000 to the Dutch citizenship.
In March 2000 she received the promise of being able to start for the Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Sydney. There Audina difference but already in the quarter- finals of the individual competition. 2002 Audina won at the European Championships and the silver medal in 2003 in Birmingham third in the world championships.
In April 2004, Audina European champion in the individual competition. With this win, they improved to No. 2 in the world rankings. Until July 2004 Audina had won a total of nine Grand Prix tournaments. On August 19, 2004 Mia Audina won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Athens. In 2005 she won the women's singles competition at the Strasbourg master.
On August 16, 2006, shortly before the World Championships in Madrid, they surprised the badminton world with the announcement of its cancellation. The reasons for that is accumulating injuries and slow auskurierende diseases.
Tournament successes
Women's Singles
- Indonesia Open 1998
- Swiss Open - March 2002
- Dutch Open - October 27, 2002
- Korea Open - April 13, 2003
- Chinese Taipei Open - November 9, 2003
- Japan Open - 11th April 2004 ( in the final, she defeated the World No. Gong Ruina )
- European Champion - April 24, 2004
Women Doubles
- German Open - November 10, 2002
- BMW Open Int - December 8, 2002
- European Champion - April 24, 2004
- Dutch Open - October 16, 2005