The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) has recently announced that 30 athletes will be representing the nation to the XXXII Tokyo Olympics competing in 10 different sports.
In the statement, the OCM President, Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Norza Zakaria said, “On behalf of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, I would like to congratulate all the athletes who have qualified to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. These athletes have persevered under extremely difficult conditions in the last two years to qualify for Olympics.”
Archery
Khairul Anuar Mohamad
Syaqiera Binti Mashayikh
Athletics
Lee Hup Wei
Azreen Nabila Binti Alias
Badminton
Lee Zii Jia
Soniia Cheah
Aaron Chia
Soh Wooi Yik
Chow Mei Kuan
Lee Meng Yean
Chan Peng Soon
Goh Liu Ying
Cycling
Mohd Azizulhasni Awang
Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom
Diving
Nur Dhabitah Sabri
Ng Yan Yee
Pandelala Rinong Pamg
Cheong Jun Hoong
Leong Mun Yee
Golf
Gymnastics
Farah Ann Abdul Hadi
Jeremiah Loo Phay Xing
Sailing
Khairulnizam Mohd Afendy
Nur Shazrin Mohd Latif
Nuraisyah Jamil
Juni Karimah Noor Jamali
Shooting
Swimming
Welson Sim Wee Sheng
Phee Jinq En
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has been appointed by the OCM as its Official Airline Partner for the Malaysian Contingent to Tokyo 2020 which will take place from 23 July until 8 August 2021.
MAS will be flying the officials and athletes to the Japan, including their brand ambassadors, the national divers – Pandelela Rinong Pamg and Nur Dhabitah Sabri.
Our badminton Greatest Of All Time, Lee Chong Wei is our nation’s chef-de-mission for this Olympics, an although he is unable to fly to Tokyo to join our athletes, he has been motivating our heroes to bring back a good name for Malaysia.
The journey to this year’s Olympics is an exceptionally tough one for the athletes, facing uncertainties due to the pandemic, training under quarantine situations and persevering through this period and without the presence of supporters during the competition.
But with the availability of the internet, let us flood their social media accounts with the best of cheers and support to our national contingent!
The Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony is scheduled to take place on July 23, 2021, at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. Malaysian will be able to watch the Games live on Astro Arena Sports Channel.
Check out the previous Olympics medal winners of Malaysia.
