Malaysia Team and Athletes at Paris Olympics 2024

The Paris Olympics 2024 is closing in with the first games beginning on 26^th July 2024.

The Malaysia team at Olympics 2024 will consist of 26 athletes competing in 10 different sports, in hope of achieving our first ever gold medal at the Olympic Games.

Here’s an introduction to our Olympic athletes: Some veterans such as cyclist Dato’ Azizulhasni Awang, badminton pair Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik; And many making their debut to bring pride to our nation.

Click here for the full schedule.

Athletics

Azeem Fahmi – Men’s 100m Sprint

Gavin will be contesting in his 3^rd Olympics after the previous two games. He qualified by ranking 53^rd in the Olympic Golf Ranking men’s category. He will represent Malaysia as one of the seven Asian countries to play in the sport of golf.

Golf

Gavin Kyle Green – Men’s Golf

Gavin will be contesting in his 3^rd Olympics after the previous two games. He qualified by ranking 53^rd in the Olympic Golf Ranking men’s category. He will represent Malaysia as one of the seven Asian countries to play in the sport of golf.

Ashley Lau Jen Wen – Women’s Golf

The 24-year-old is from Bintulu, and she is the first Sarawakian golfer to qualify for the Olympic Games. She qualified for the games by ranking 50^th in the Olympic Golf Ranking women’s category, which is governed by the International Golf Federation.

Weightlifting

Mohamad Aniq Kasdan – Men’s 61kg

The 22-year-old Johorean weightlifter will be making his debut in the Olympics this year. His most recent victories came in the 2021 SEA Games (Bronze), 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships (Gold), 2022 Commonwealth Games (Gold), and 2023 International Weightlifting Federation Grand Prix (Bronze).

Cycling

Dato’ Azizulhasni Awang – Sprint and Keirin Cycling

A stranger to none, Dato’ Azizulhasni Awang is Malaysia’s most decorated cyclist, nicknamed The Pocket Rocketman. In his last two Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the 2016 games, and a silver medal in the 2020 games – both in the Keirin event. This will be his fifth appearance at the Olympics.

Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom – Sprint and Keirin Cycling

The 28-year-old Johorean will be making his second Olympics appearance. In his debut in Tokyo, he managed to advance to the quarter-finals for the keirin event, while stopped at the third round repechage of the sprint event.

Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri – Sprint and Keirin Cycling

The Kedah-born athlete is also nicknamed the Pocket Rocket Woman. The 21-year-old recently won 2 gold medals in the sprint and keirin events at the ASEAN Track President’s Cup 2 Series.

Nur Aisyah Mohamad Zubir – Road Cycling

The 26-year-old from Terengganu will be the first ever Malaysian female road cyclist to compete in the Olympics. She recently won a bronze medal at the 2023 SEA Games.

Archery

Ariana Nur Dania – Women’s Individual and Women’s Team

This will be Ariana’s debut in the Olympics. The 19-year-old qualified for the Women’s Individual event by winning the Bangkok 2023 Asian Archery Championship’s gold medal in November 2023.

She will also be competing in the Women’s Team event with Syaqiera and Nurul Azreena.

Syaqiera Mashayikh and Nurul Azreena Mohamad Fazil – Women’s Team

This will be Syaqiera’s second Olympic appearance. The Johor-born 24-year-old ranked 43^rd in the preliminary round in the recurve event, however was eliminated in her first knockout match in the Tokyo Olympics. She also managed to finish 19^th overall in the mixed team event with Khairul Anuar.

Shooting

Jonathan Wong – 10m Air Pistol

Jonathan is the 3^rd Malaysian athlete to secure a place in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He qualified on merit with a fourth place finish in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol event. This will be his second appearance in the Olympics following his 2016 debut in Rio de Janeiro.

Sailing

Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif – ILCA6

This will be the Johorean’s 3^rd appearance at the Olympics, having finished 33^rd in the One Person Dinghy (Laser Radial) event in 2016, and then 26^th in the Laser Radial Women event in the Tokyo Olympics.

She recently won a gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games for the Women’s ILCA6.

Khairulnizam Mohd Afendy – ILCA7

An Olympic veteran, the Kedah-born sailor will become the second Malaysian sailor to compete in four Olympics after Dr Kevin Lim (From 1996 to 2008).

He ranked 47^th in the London 2012 Olympics in the One Person Dinghy (Laser) event, further improving in the same event in 2016 to 35^th. In the most recent edition of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he ranked 28^th in the Laser Men event.

Swimming

Khiew Hoe Yean – Men’s 400m Freestyle

The 21-year-old will be making his debut in the Olympics this year. A rising star, he won his first gold swimming medal for Malaysia in the 2021 SEA Games 200m Freestyle event. His second gold came in the same event later in the 2023 SEA Games.

He is the current national record holder in the 400m Freestyle event.

Tan Rouxin - Women's 100m Breaststroke

Also making her debut at the young age of 18, the Johorean is going in with full confidence, wanting to break her personal best record of 1:11.02s for the 100m breaststroke in Paris.

Diving

Bertrand Rhodict Lises – Men’s 10m Platform

The nation’s 18-year-old was the first Malaysian to qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024 in July 2023, following his 10^th place ranking in the World Aquatic Championships 2023 in Fukuoka. He will be making his debut in the Olympics.

Nur Dhabitah Sabri - Women's 3m Springboard

Dhabitah is no stranger to Malaysians with her impressive track record for Malaysia. In the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Dhabitah and Cheong Jun Hoong fnished 5^th in the 3m synchronized springboard event, while in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics she finished 4^th in the Women’s 3m springboard event. Let’s hope Dhabitah’s 3^rd appearance in Olympics 2024 is the time that she brings a medal back home.

Badminton

Lee Zii Jia - Men's Singles

The world No. 10 Lee Zii Jia will participate in his second Olympic Games. In the previous Tokyo Olympics, he was eliminated in the round of 16 by Chen Long. The good news is Zii Jia has been riding on a good form of winning the BWF Thailand Open and BWF Australian Open in 2024, we hope Zii Jia will be able to bring home Malaysia’s first ever Olympics gold.

Goh Jin Wei - Women's Singles

The 24 year old will be making her Olympics debut. Jin Wei is no stranger to the world stage, as she has previously won two world junior chamionships.

Aaron Chia, Soh Wooi Yik - Men's Doubles

The national doubles pair won Malaysia’s only bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. In 2024, they managed to clinch a runner-up spot in the BWF All England Open. They are the pair to look out for to clinch a gold for Malaysia as well.

Pearly Tan, Thinaah Muralitharan - Women's Doubles

The highly anticipated national pair will be making their Olympics debut. In 2022’s Birmingham Commonwealth Games, they managed to clinch gold.

Cheng Tang Jie, Toh Ee Wei - Mixed Doubles

Our mixed doubles pair will also be making their Olympics debut. Similarly to Zii Jia, they have been riding on great form this year with 2 runner-up results in BWF Thailand Masters and BWF Swiss Open.