Mya Lay Sein


Mya Lay Sein is a Burmese physiologist, former badminton player and Deputy Minister for Health and Sports for Myanmar from 2018 to 2021.

Career

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 and PhD 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.

Achievements

World Championships

Mixed doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1979Hangzhou,
China
|1974

Southeast Asian Games

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1975Bangkok, Thailand|variant=1974