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| Born | June 3, 1981 (1981-06-03) (age 43) Harbin, Heilongjiang | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miao Lijie (Chinese: 苗立杰; pinyin: Miáo Lìjié, born June 3, 1981, in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a female Chinese basketball player.
She has been the first player to score 6.000 points in the WCBA, and the only Chinese player able to win both the WCBA and the WNBA title.
She first played basketball at Hualong, joining the ranks at age 11. At age 16, Miao was selected to join the Chinese National team, being part of the squad that won the gold medal at the 2001 Asian Championship.
In 2005, she joined the Sacramento Monarchs of WNBA but left the team after a short time. She would get a WCBA title in 2011, playing for Shenyang.
She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Miao retired in 2014, at age 33. She then became the head coach of Shen Bu team, which would be merged with Bayi Women's Basketball Team.
References
- ^ "苗立杰：中国女篮15年标杆，36岁退役留下无数记录，如今结婚生子_比赛_隋菲菲_WCBA" [Miao Lijie: A benchmark for Chinese women's basketball for 15 years, retired at the age of 36 and left countless records, now married and having children_Game_Sui Feifei_WCBA]. sohu.com (in Chinese). Retrieved July 7, 2023.
- ^ "200块钱的伙食费都付不起，但如果没有她，中国女篮早就没落了_苗立杰_篮球_教练" [She can't even afford the 200 yuan meal fee, but without her, the Chinese women's basketball team would have fallen long ago]. sohu.com (in Chinese). Retrieved July 7, 2023.
- "Miao Miao". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Miao Lijie". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from WNBA.com and Basketball Reference
- Miao Lijie international stats at Basketball-Reference.com
- Miao Lijie at FIBA (archive)
- Miao Lijie at Eurobasket.com
- Miao Lijie at Olympedia (archive)
- Miao Lijie at Olympics.com
- Miao Lijie at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived)
- Miao Lijie - 2008 Team China at the Wayback Machine (archived February 27, 2012)
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