User talk:Monica Liyau Ho

Monica Liyau ( Lima August 18 ,1967 ) is a peruvian former table tennis player who has won gold medals in single, doublé and team events in national,Bolivarian, southamerican,Latinamerican,panamerican, us open Championships. Olympic sportswoman (Seoul 1988) and unique american table tennis player that reached the first division European professional league of Sweden, representing Sparvagen Club in Stockholm (1987-1989) with unbeatable performance , team champion.

During 1990-1996 she played professional in Brazil  Clube Guarulhos with the amazing record of seven consecutive gold medals. A sporting legend in her native Peru as well as in America, decorated by the peruvian olympic comitee with the Sports Laurels in the grades of “ OFICIAL” and “ COMENDADOR “.

To parents of chinese heritage,who had emigrated to Peru. She is the youngest of four children ( Guillermo, Ana, Juan ,Monica ). Bachelor graduated in Business administration – Universidad de Lima, MBA in marketing – Universidad ESAN.

In 1989 Liyau got married to Brazilian table tennis champion Claudio Kano, World ranked 6. In 1991 she gave birth a boy named Christopher Kano. Unfortunately Claudio died in 1996 in a motorcycle accident in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Monica decided to retired from Table tennis at that year. In 2007 she had another son: Luka Luy. Monica is the founder of the Monica Liyau Foundation a nonprofit association in Peru for the massive diffusion of the practice of the table tennis all around the Portuguese.world, involving aims of sustainable development; declared by the United Nations.

Other than her native Spanish Liyau also speaks English, chinese and Actually, Monica Liyau is a succeful businesswoman and runs her own company “ GOLOZZINI “, the number one promotional candies factory in Peru.