Malaysia’s men’s singles shuttler Ng Tze Yong and three mixed doubles pairs stormed into the quarter-finals of the Singapore Open badminton championships, Thursday
KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 The 2022 Malaysia Open is set to witness a thrilling final between world’s top two men’s singles shuttlers - Viktor Axelsen of Denmark and Japan’s.
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Published on: Thursday, July 22, 2021
By: Bernama
Zii Jia will lead the country’s badminton challenge in Tokyo.
Kuala Lumpur: Since making its debut in Barcelona 1992, badminton has always been the main medal contributor for Malaysia in the Olympic Games, except for Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
At the previous edition in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio 2016), the national shuttlers brought back three silver medals, their best ever achievement in the Olympics.
Apart from holding the honour of winning Malaysia’s first ever Olympics medal, a bronze through Datuk Razif Sidek-Datuk Seri Jalani Sidek in the 1992 Barcelona Games, badminton has delivered eight out of 11 medals in the country’s 65 year participation in the Games.