Mya Lay Sein (Burmese: မြလေးစိန်; born 1954) is a Burmese physiologist, former badminton player[2] and Deputy Minister for Health and Sports for Myanmar from 2018 to 2021.

Mya Lay Sein
မြလေးစိန်
Deputy Minister for Health and Sports
In office
2 July 2018 – 1 February 2021
PresidentWin Myint
MinisterMyint Htwe
Preceded byThaung Htike
Succeeded byMyo Hlaing
Vice Chairman of Myanmar Olympic Committee
In office
2 July 2018 – 1 February 2021
Personal details
Born1954 (age 69–70)
NationalityMyanmar
Alma materInstitute of Medicine 1, Yangon
University of New South Wales
OccupationPhysiologist
Mya Lay Sein
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  Burma
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1979 Hangzhou Mixed doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Hangzhou Women's team
Southeast Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 1975 Bangkok Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Jakarta Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Jakarta Women's team

Career

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Mya has always been very active in sports, culminating in 15 years of international representation in badminton for Myanmar team. She was a silver medallist in the 1979 WBF World Championships with partner Wai Nyunt in mixed doubles category. At the same time she has also studied at Yangon Institute of Medicine 1 and graduated in 1982.

She received the certificate of the Postgraduate Training Sports Medicine from the Singapore Sports Council, the degrees of MSpMed (Master of Sports Medicine) and PhD (Sports Medicine & Shoulder) from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She served as the vice president of Myanmar Badminton Federation. On 2 July 2018, the president Win Myint appointed her as the deputy minister for Ministry of Health and Sports.[3][4]

Achievements

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World Championships

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Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1979 Hangzhou,
China
  Wai Nyunt   Ng Chun Ching
  Amy Chan Lim Chee
10–15, 15–10, 16–18   Silver

Southeast Asian Games

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Women's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1975 Bangkok, Thailand   Thida Aye Nyo   Porntip Buntanon
  Suleeporn Jittariyakul
  Bronze
1979 Istora Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia   Thida Aye Nyo   Verawaty Wiharjo
  Imelda Wiguna
3–15, 8–15   Bronze

References

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  1. ^ "အမျိုးသားအောင်ပွဲနေ့တွင် မဟာသရေစည်သူဘွဲ့ တစ်ဦး၊ စည်သူဘွဲ့ ၄၁ ဦး၊ သီရိပျံချီဘွဲ့ ၄၅ ဦးနှင့် ဇေယျကျော်ထင်ဘွဲ့ ၁၉ ဦး ချီးမြှင့်အပ်နှင်း".
  2. ^ "အောင်မြင်ကျော်ကြား တက္ကသိုလ်အားကစား".
  3. ^ "ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း". Myanmar President office.
  4. ^ "DR. MYA IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT-SPORTS MEDICINE AND HEALTH".