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Certiport Crowns Microsoft Office Specialist World Champions

Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Gurus Top 700,000 Competitors Worldwide

Salt Lake City, UTAH – August 19, 2016

Certiport (www.certiport.com), a Pearson VUE business, the leading test delivery solution provider for the global workforce and academic markets, today announces the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Champions in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, culminating the most popular technology skills competition on Microsoft Office and the only one endorsed by Microsoft since its inception in 2002.

The standings for the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship:

MOS Word 2013
    First place, Ming Lai Tin, Hong Kong
    Second place, Xin Wei Lau, Singapore
    Third place, Waqas Ali, Pakistan
    - Fourth place, Nicholas O’Donnell, USA
    - Fifth place, Kotono Sasaki, Japan
    - Sixth place, Argyro Lygnou, Greece
    - Seventh place, Chi Kien Tran, Vietnam
    - Eighth place, Sok An Eng, Cambodia
    - Ninth place, Juan Garcia, Mexico
    - Tenth place, Weilong Zeng, China

MOS Excel 2013
    First place, Pak Hei Lee, Hong Kong
    Second place, Natthapol Pusa, Thailand
    Third place, Michael Kelly, USA
    - Fourth place, Anas Tarawneh, Jordan
    - Fifth place, Di Kun Ong, New Zealand
    - Sixth place, Harmish Mehta, United Kingdom
    - Seventh place, Saki Nakashima, Japan
    - Eighth place, Laura Van Der Schoor, Netherlands
    - Ninth place, Minyi Ong, Singapore
    - Tenth place, Chun-Wei Chang, Taiwan

MOS PowerPoint 2013
    First place, Ryan Catalfu, USA
    Second place, Aidan Sharpe, New Zealand
    Third place, Daeun Kim, South Korea
    - Fourth place, Wai Fung Cheng, Hong Kong
    - Fifth place, Emily Clark, Australia
    - Sixth place, Pei Angie Tan, Singapore
    - Seventh place, Koson Tuangtee, Thailand
    - Eighth place, Wei-Hong Chen, Taiwan
    - Ninth place, Marko Markovikj, Macedonia
    - Tenth place, Katherine Eta, Nigeria

MOS Word 2010
    First place, Georgi Boshev, Bulgaria
    Second place, Thien Nguyen, Vietnam
    Third place, Shah Zaib Ishaq, Pakistan
    - Fourth place, Anthony Malabad, USA
    - Fifth place, Chun Yip Lo, Hong Kong
    - Sixth place, Parth Mankad, India
    - Seventh place, Yuet Ming Yue, Hong Kong
    - Eighth place, Padungkiat Chamchat, Thailand
    - Ninth place, Mihai Macarie, Romania
    - Tenth place, Marco Perez, Mexico

MOS Excel 2010

    First place, Kuan Hou Lei, Macau
    Second place, Skyler Won, USA
    Third place, Thi Khanh Linh Tran, Vietnam
    - Fourth place, Kuan-Chieh Huang, Taiwan
    - Fifth place, Daksh Jaglan, India
    - Sixth place, Chun Fung Chan, Hong Kong
    - Seventh place, Gerardo Martinez, Mexico
    - Eighth place, Pak Hin Chan, Hong Kong
    - Ninth place, Majdi Esau, Jordan
    - Tenth place, Philaphonh Inthavongsa, Laos

MOS PowerPoint 2010
    First place, Chao Ka Hei, Macau
    Second place, Sze Ching Lo, Hong Kong
    Third place, Yawittha Daroth, Thailand
    - Fourth place, Hung Nguyen, Vietnam
    - Fifth place, William Silva, USA
    - Sixth place, Daniela Pavlova, Bulgaria
    - Seventh place, Oudomsavanh Xayavong, Laos
    - Eighth place, Kwame Kwakwa, Ghana
    - Ninth place, Ximena Villamar, Mexico
    - Tenth place, Yan Tung Poon, Hong Kong

Next year, Certiport will host the 2017 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in Anaheim, California. Download high-resolution photos of the winners here and video interviews here. The event hashtag is #MOSWC.

About Certiport

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and program management services delivered through an expansive network of over 14,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide. Certiport manages a sophisticated portfolio of leading certification programs including: the official Microsoft Office Specialist certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Microsoft Certified Educator program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the Autodesk Certified User and Autodesk Certified Professional certification programs, the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User certification program, and the IC3 Digital Literacy certification. Certiport reliably delivers over three million tests each year throughout the secondary, post-secondary, workforce, and corporate technology markets in 148 countries and 26 languages worldwide. For more information, www.certiport.com or follow Certiport on Twitter at www.twitter.com/certiport.

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Certiport
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