Tan Wee Kiong

Tan Wee Kiong is a Malaysian badminton player. An Olympic silver medalist, two-time Commonwealth Games gold medalist, two-time Asian Games bronze medalist and former world number one, he and his former partner Goh V Shem won the men's doubles silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are the first and only Malaysian athletes in Olympic history to have held not just one, but two gold medal points, at 20–19 and 21–20 in the deciding game of the badminton men's doubles final at the 2016 Rio Olympics, placing them just one point away from winning the nation's first Olympic gold medal and making them the Malaysian athletes who have come closest to achieving the historic feat of becoming the first ever Olympic gold medalists of Malaysia, even closer than the legendary three-time Olympic silver medalist Lee Chong Wei, who won three Olympic silver medals but never reached a gold medal point. They also became the first Malaysian men's doubles pair to reach an Olympic final since Cheah Soon Kit and Yap Kim Hock in 1996. Together, Tan and Goh reached the world number one ranking on 7 November 2016, becoming the fifth Malaysian men's doubles pair to achieve the ranking.