Malaysian Athletes In Olympics 2016



It s malaysia s best olympic year yet having.

Malaysian athletes in olympics 2016. Malaysia competed at the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro brazil from 5 to 21 august 2016 this was the nation s fifteenth appearance at the olympics although it had previously competed in two other editions under the name malaya. Malaysia first participated at the olympic games in 1964 and has sent athletes to compete in every summer olympic games since then except when malaysia participated in the american led boycott of the 1980 summer olympics malaysia made their debut at the winter olympic games in 2018. The federation of malaya now the states comprising west malaysia competed as malaya mal in the 1956 and.

The olympic council of malaysia fielded a team of 32 athletes 17 men and 15 women across ten sports at the games matching its largest team ever from. Azizulhasni awang image credit. Azizulhasni is only 28 years of age but he already has several accolades under his belt.

And just like that another olympic season has passed. He was the winner of the malaysian sportsman of the year award 2010 and was the flag bearer for team malaysia at the beijing olympic games 2008. This morning words of support for our national athletes who competed at the rio 2016 olympics are still flooding the news and social media.

This kuala lumpur born talent took home two gold medals at the 2013 and 2015 sea games as well as a bronze during the 2014 commonwealth games. At only 17 years old dhabitah is the youngest female athlete representing malaysia at the olympics. But don t let her age fool you into thinking she isn t a threat.

V shem goh and wee kiong tan of malaysia silver haifeng fu and nan zhang of china gold and marcus ellis and chris langridge of great britain bronze stand on the podium during the medal ceremony after the men s badminton doubles competition on day 14 of the rio 2016 olympic games at riocentro pavilion 4 on august 19 2016 in rio de janeiro brazil.