Nickname(s) Yanyan Height 1.62 m Other name Yanyan | Nationality Filipino Weight 56 kg | |
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Born 13 October 1994 (age 22)Cagayan de Oro, Philippines ( 1994-10-13 ) Similar Richard Gonzales (table tennis), Josephine Medina, Gao Ning | ||
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Ian N. Lariba nicknamed Yanyan is a Filipina table tennis player. She has represented the Philippines in international tournaments and competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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- ptvsports ian lariba puspusan na ang paghahanda sa rio olympics 05 17 16
- Philippines 2011 uaap season 74 ian lariba dlsu vs joma sibal up
- Early life and education
- Collegiate
- International
- References
Philippines 2011 uaap season 74 ian lariba dlsu vs joma sibal up
Early life and education
Lariba was born in Cagayan de Oro in October 13, 1994. She started taking up table tennis at age 9 with her parents encouraging her to take up "something new" for the summer. Prior to taking up the sport, Lariba took up badminton at a sports complex in Cagayan de Oro but found herself to be too small for the sport at that time. At the age of 10, Coach Noel Gonzales of the Philippine national table tennis team discovered Lariba while playing in the Palarong Pambansa. Just a year after taking up table tennis, she started to participate in provincial and national competitions. She also played for the varsity team of the Corpus Christi School.
Lariba attended De La Salle University for her college studies. For her college studies, as early as around 2009, she was already inclined to choose De La Salle as her college over University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University which were her other options. She is taking up Management in Financial Institution as her major degree.
Collegiate
Lariba is also a varsity player for her university, De La Salle University playing at the UAAP Table tennis tournament. She entered the table tennis team after being scouted in a national competition. On her first season she was named as UAAP Season 74 Rookie of the Year and on the UAAP Season 75 her team won the championship and Lariba herself was named Most Valuable Player (MVP). Her collegiate team failed short of winning the championship at UAAP Season 76, winning games only to suffer a sweeping lost to UP Lady Maroons in the final.
She led her team to winning the championship at UAAP Season 77 and was awarded a second MVP recognition along with being named UAAP Athlete of the Year along with Hannah Dato of Ateneo de Manila University and Janelle Mae Frayna of Far Eastern University. She led her team to winning the championship at UAAP Season 78 again and was also named MVP once again. She was also awarded as one of the 4 student-athletes who won the Athlete of the Year plum in Season 78, together with Alyssa Valdez and Jessie Lacuna of Ateneo de Manila University and Queeny Sabobo of Adamson University.
International
Lariba has represented the Philippines in international table tennis competitions. She led the Philippine team to accomplishing a first-place finish at the Division 4 of the 2014 World Table Tennis Team Championships in Tokyo, Japan with Jamaica Sy.
She has also competed at the 2013 and 2015 Southeast Asian Games and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics through the Asian qualification tournament held in Hong Kong in April 2016. She is the first Filipina table tennis player to qualify in the Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1988 as a demonstration sport.
For the preparations for the Olympic qualifiers, Lariba underwent training in South Korea and was trained by Korean coach Kwon Mi Sook. The Korean coach herself was a medalist at the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships. She is also set to compete in the 2016 Asean University Games, her last tournament before the Olympics.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she was defeated by Han Xing of the Congo in the preliminary round. She also carried the Philippine flag as the delegation's flagbearer for the opening ceremony.