Lee Chong Wei

Dato Seri Lee Chong Wei DB, DCSM, DSPN, PJN, AMN, JP, DGPN, (October 21, 1982 -), a retired male badminton player from Malaysia. His ancestral home is Nan'an County, Fujian Province. He was born in Bagan Sehai, Perak, Malaysia, and grew up in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. He is known as the "Big Brother of Malaysian Badminton". Together with Peter Gade of Denmark, Lin Dan of China and Taufik of Indonesia, he is also known as the "Four Kings" of international badminton. Lee Chong Wei’s wife is Wong Miaozhu, a former famous Malaysian badminton player. After winning the badminton men's singles silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, Lee Chong Wei became the sixth Malaysian athlete to win a medal at the Olympics and was awarded the Dato' honor. In 2012, he again lost to Lin Dan and won the silver medal in the badminton men's singles at the London Olympics. In 2016, he won the silver medal in the men's badminton singles competition at the Rio Olympics for the third time and was awarded the title of Dato Willa. As a men's singles player, Lee Chong Wei became the number one player in the International Badminton Federation's world rankings on August 21, 2008. Since the establishment of the official rankings in the 1980s, he has become the fourth Malaysian men's singles player to be ranked number one in the world, following Rashid Sidi, Roslyn Hashim and Wong Chong Han, and the first Malaysian player to remain number one for more than a year. He also occupied the men's singles world No. 1 position for 349 weeks, the longest record in the badminton world. In 2014, Lee Chong Wei was sentenced to an eight-month suspension for a doping incident. The suspension period was calculated from the date of the drug test incident (August 30) and expired on May 1, 2015. In November 2015, after winning the China Open, he achieved the major Super Series Grand Slam. Lee Chong Wei was elected as one of Malaysia's top ten outstanding youths in 2009. On June 13, 2019, taking health factors into consideration, Lee Chong Wei announced his retirement at a press conference and officially hung up the racket, ending his 19-year career as a professional badminton player. The then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and the Prime Minister’s wife Siti Hasmah expressed their gratitude to Lee Chong Wei for his contribution to the country and paid tribute to this national hero. From October 2021 to December 2022, Lee Chong Wei was appointed by the Sabah Tourism Board as the Sabah Tourism Ambassador. On December 2, 2021, Lee Chong Wei was awarded an honorary doctorate in sports science by the University Sains Malaysia.