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The Malaysian contingent will have to wait at least one more day to see the glitter of the first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On the eighth day of the Games, Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah’s hopes of a medal did not materialise despite making history as the country’s first women’s doubles team to advance to the semi-finals of the Olympics. Pearly-Thinaah, ranked 12th in the world, lost their bronze medal playoff 11-21, 11-21 to Nami Matsuyama-Chiharu Shida of Japan, ranked fourth in the world, at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena. However, Malaysia has a chance to win a medal

Finally, a medal to cherish for Malaysia at the 2024 Paris Olympics. National men’s doubles aces Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik clawed their way back from the brink of defeat to overcome Danes Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 16-21, 22-20, 21-19 to clinch bronze – Malaysia’s first medal at the Paris Olympics – today. The Malaysians, the 2022 world champions, started the match in jittery form and made many unforced errors to give away the first game in the bronze-medal playoff at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena. Just when the world number three seemed destined for defeat, with Astrup-Rasmussen needing one

Following is the schedule of Malaysian athletes in action at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Sunday (Aug 4). (Note: all events are in Malaysian time) BADMINTON (Porte De La Chapelle Arena) Men’s Singles Semi-final: ——————————— Lee Zii Jia vs Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA) – 4.50 pm Men’s Doubles Bronze Medal Match: ————————————————- Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik vs Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN) – 9 pm GOLF (Le Golf National) Men: Fourth Round —————————– Gavin Kyle Green – 3 pm SAILING (Marseille Marina) Race 7-8 Men: Dinghy —————– Khairulnizam Mohd Afendy – 6.05 pm Women: Dinghy ———————– Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latiff –

The Sabah artistic gymnastics team aims to win the gold in the individual horizontal bar event at the 2024 Malaysia Games (SUKMA) in Sarawak this August. Coach Azri Omar said the target is based on the potential of Sabah gymnast Marvell Vincent Voo, who has the necessary experience in the event and is a junior national gymnast. “For now, we can target one individual gold medal in the horizontal bar as we have a junior national gymnast, Marvell, who is training in Bukit Jalil,’ he told Bernama at the Sabah artistic gymnastics team’s training session at Likas Sports Complex here

National women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah hope their achievement of advancing to the semi-finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics can inspire other ‘younger players’ to challenge for greater success. Their historic journey at the 2024 Paris Olympics ended without a medal after losing 11-21, 11-21 to the world number four pair from Japan, Nami Matsuyama-Chiharu Shida in the bronze medal playoff at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena, here today. However, earlier, Peary-Thinaah, who were drawn in the group of death, recovered from a loss to world number one Chen Qing Chen-Jia Yi Fan in the first action of