Para badminton star Cheah Liek Hou brought joy to the Malaysian contingent by securing the nation’s first gold medal on September 2 at Paris 2024 Paralympics. The 36-year-old, reigning as the world number one and top seed, successfully defended his title in the men’s singles SU5 event. He achieved this by defeating Indonesia’s Suryo Nugroho…
Cheah Liek Hou won’t be fighting alone in his title defense at the Paris Paralympics. This year, 28-year-old Fareez Anuar will also compete for a semi-final spot in the SU5 men’s singles. This marks the first time Malaysia have two shuttlers in the same category at the Paralympics. Three years ago in Tokyo, Liek Hou…
Lee Zii Jia won a bronze medal in men’s singles badminton at the Paris Olympics, making a significant contribution to Malaysia’s rise in the medal table. He accomplished this through a hard-fought match against India’s Lakshya Sen. After losing the first set 13-21, Zii Jia came back strongly to win the next two sets 21-16…
Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik win Malaysia’s first medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. National men’s doubles pair Aaron-Wooi Yik secured the bronze medal by overcoming world No.2 Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen from Denmark with scores of 16-21, 22-20, 21-19. The match took place at Adidas Arena in Port de la Chapelle on Sunday, August 4….
Pearly Tan and M. Thinaah made history as the first Malaysian women’s doubles pair to reach the Olympic semi-finals. However, they ultimately lost to China’s Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan with scores of 12-21, 21-18, 15-21. The world No. 12 fell 11-21, 11-21 to Japan’s world No. 4 Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida in 41…
Lee Zii Jia is playing the best badminton of his career at the Paris Olympics. Consequently, he reached the men’s singles semi-finals this morning (August 3) at the Adidas Arena in Port de la Chapelle. The independent shuttler survived a late fightback from Anders Antonsen of Denmark. As a result, he secured a 21-17, 21-15…
Malaysia has advanced to the badminton semi-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympics in both men’s and women’s doubles. Pearly Tan and M. Thinaah secured their spot by defeating South Korea, while Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik made it through by overcoming their Indian opponents. Women’s Doubles Tough Match Against World No. 1 Chen Qing…
National mixed doubles pair Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei experienced a heartbreaking end to their Olympic journey in the quarterfinals of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Despite their determined performance, the world number nine debutants fell to South Koreans Kim Won Ho and Jeong Na Eun with scores of 19-21, 14-21 in a match…
National men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia advanced to the last-16 of the Paris 2024 Olympics with a 21-10, 21-13 victory over Spain’s Pablo Abian. The win came in his second Group G match, held at the Adidas Arena in Port de la Chapelle. The opening set was closely contested until Zii Jia gained a…
National badminton women’s singles player Goh Jin Wei experienced a tough defeat against South Korea’s Kim Ga Eun in her final group match in Paris today. The match, held at the Porte De La Chapelle Arena, was a thrilling contest that ended with scores of 17-21, 22-20, 21-23 after 1 hour and 5 minutes of…