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Sports Fans Malaysia

"If we dare to WIN, we should dare to LOSE" - Lee Chong Wei

Malaysians love sports. They play different kinds of sports badminton, bowling, field hockey, tennis, squash, golf, horse riding, cruising, hand to hand fighting and skate boarding. However, with regards to sports, one game specifically has a to some degree all inclusive intrigue for Malaysians and that is football.

The Malaysian national football crew, the Harimau Malaysia, first made their global scratch when they took the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup. Malaysia additionally took the gold 2009 and 2011 Southeast Asian Games and qualified 2007 AFC Asian Cup just as the Asian Cup (1976 and 1980). As of the beginning of 2015, Malaysia positions at 154th in the FIFA World Ranking and their ladies are at 88th as of the finish of 2014.

Top Popular Sports Athlete in Malaysia

1. Football

Datuk Mokhtar Dahari - "Supermokh"

The absolute most surely understood competitors of Malaysia incorporates Datuk Soh Chin Aun, who was the most youthful player to be a piece of the national group at 21 was frequently alluded to as "Tauke" (chief) by his colleagues due to his leasership personality in the field and lead his group in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. Be that as it may, with regards to football, no Malaysian can ever overlook the "Supermokh", Datuk Mokhtar Dahari. He was the most popular name in Malaysian football in the 1970's and helped the national team to score overall of 125 goals in international games in 167 caps.

2. Badminton

Chong Wei is one of the unexceptional badminton gifts.

His heroics at the highest point of the game for a long time have earned him the title Datuk and had the Malaysian Prime Minister depict him as a national legend.

A World number one, Chong Wei has various gold decorations to his name after triumph at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

He won consecutive Yonex All England Open titles in 2010 and 2011 while 2014 saw him secure his tenth Malaysia Open title.

He has gotten numerous honors all through his famous profession and his collection of memoirs - 'Set out to be a Champion' - is a smash hit in his nation of origin.

3. Bowling

Shalin Zulkifli - Sea Games Malaysia

Shalin Zulkifli (Birthday: 28 March 1978 in Islington, London, England) is a Malaysian expert ten stick bowler and previous Asian No. 1. She has played and won different national and universal competitions, and has at different focuses in her vocation positioned No. 1 of the expert ten stick bowlers in Malaysia and Asia. During 2001 World Tenpin Masters occasion, she turned into the principal female victor of this occasion, vanquishing Finland's Tore Torgersen in the finals. In 2004, she was inductee into International Bowling Hall of Fame. Bowling in the USA, she was a quarterfinalist at the 2008 US Women's Open, and contended in the 2008-09 PBA Women's Series.

Shalin was conceived in North Islington and spent her youth in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She started bowling at 9 years old and joined the national bowling crew in the late 1980s.[1] In 1991 she was named Selangor's Most Promising Sportsgirl of the Year, and in 1994 turned into the most youthful player and first Malaysian to win the Ladies Open of the Kent Malaysian All-Stars.

Shalin holds a degree in Sports Science that has practical experience in Sports Psychology and Coaching. She right now possesses and runs a Tenpin Bowling Alley at The Curve, a shopping center situated in Mutiara Damansara.

4. Swimming

Welson Sim

Welson Sim Wee Sheng (Birthday: 29 March 1997) is a Malaysian swimmer. He contended in the men's 400 meter free-form occasion at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sim was conceived in Kuching, Sarawak. He began joining swimming classes at 10 years old, and contended in Sarawak's President Cup a year later.

Welson Sim is very forthcoming about his weaknesses. World-class swimmers are regularly prepared in world-class pools under the tutelage of world-class mentors. Malaysia doesn't have numerous world-class pools, and it takes a great deal of cash to prepare under world-class mentors. This, in any case, makes Welson Sim much increasingly resolved to make it all alone terms. Sim has won gold in his occasion multiple times in the SEA Games, and the silver multiple times. He has done everything with the preparation assets accessible in Malaysia. Keep in mind a competitor who has a point to demonstrate. For Sim, it's that competitors can contend on the world stage without world-class assets. Focused swimming has a special reward of enabling him to travel. He has gone to more than 20 nations to contend and means to venture out to significantly more. Not terrible for a person who began swimming to defeat youth asthma.

5. Gymnastics

Farah Ann Abdul Hadi

Farah was conceived in Subang Jaya, Selangor, to Abdul Hadi Ahmad and Canadian-conceived Kimberly Ann Gagnon on 3 May 1994. She is the second of three kids and her sister, Katrina Ann, is a previous national synchronized swimmer 

Numerous extraordinary competitors start early. Concerning Abdul Hadi, she began aerobatic at age three. She has since contended as a creative tumbler in the SEA Games, sacking four gold decorations in the group and floor practice classes. Her extreme preparing prompted a broke back, and she needed to take a year off from rivalries to recoup. However, ever the aggressive competitor, she didn't let that prevent her from preparing. Of every one of her exhibitions, she thinks of her as appearing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games to be her best. The judges must've concurred with her since they gave her the gold.