1988—
History · Summer Olympic Games
Barcelona 1992—Paris 2024Malaysia’s Olympic
Medal Timeline
Every Malaysian Summer Olympic podium in one sourced chronology: 15 medals across badminton, diving and track cycling.
- 15
- Total medals
- 8
- Silver medals
- 7
- Bronze medals
- 3
- Medal-winning sports
How to read it
This tally counts medal events, following the standard national medal table: a doubles pair or synchronised diving team earns one medal for Malaysia. The chronology covers Summer Olympic results through Paris 2024.
Seven medal-winning Games
Every medal, in order
- BarcelonaMalaysia’s first Olympic podium
- BronzeRazif Sidek & Jalani SidekBadminton · Men’s doubles
- Bronze
- AtlantaA silver and a second Sidek-family bronze
- SilverCheah Soon Kit & Yap Kim HockBadminton · Men’s doubles
- BronzeRashid SidekBadminton · Men’s singles
- Silver
- BeijingThe first of three consecutive singles silvers
- SilverLee Chong WeiBadminton · Men’s singles
- Silver
- LondonMalaysia’s first woman and first non-badminton medallist
- SilverLee Chong WeiBadminton · Men’s singles
- BronzePandelela RinongDiving · Women’s 10m platform
- Silver
- Rio de JaneiroMalaysia’s largest medal haul at one Games
- SilverLee Chong WeiBadminton · Men’s singles
- SilverPandelela Rinong & Cheong Jun HoongDiving · Women’s synchronised 10m platform
- Silver
- Silver
- BronzeAzizulhasni AwangTrack cycling · Men’s keirin
- Silver
- Tokyo · held in 2021Cycling silver and a new doubles partnership on the podium
- SilverAzizulhasni AwangTrack cycling · Men’s keirin
- Bronze
- Silver
- ParisTwo badminton bronzes
- BronzeLee Zii JiaBadminton · Men’s singles
- Bronze
- Bronze
What the timeline shows
Badminton began the story. Diving and cycling widened it.
Malaysia’s first four medals all came from badminton, beginning with Razif and Jalani Sidek in 1992. Lee Chong Wei then became the country’s most decorated Olympian by total medals, winning singles silver at three consecutive Games.
Pandelela Rinong changed the pattern at London 2012 as the first Malaysian woman and first athlete outside badminton to reach an Olympic podium. Azizulhasni Awang added track cycling in Rio, then upgraded bronze to silver at Tokyo 2020.
Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik won bronze at both Tokyo and Paris, becoming Malaysia’s first doubles pair to medal at two Olympic Games. Paris 2024 added two bronzes but did not end the country’s wait for a first Olympic gold.
10 sourced biographies
Meet the medallists behind the moments
1989—
Goh Liu Ying
Badminton mixed-doubles playerThe Malaysian mixed-doubles specialist whose recovery from knee surgery led back to the international circuit and an Olympic silver medal with Chan Peng Soon.Read biography1998—
Lee Zii Jia
Badminton men’s singles playerThe Malaysian singles player whose All England breakthrough was followed by an independent professional career and an Olympic bronze in Paris.Read biography
1989—
Goh V Shem
Badminton doubles player and Olympic silver medallistThe Malaysian doubles player who won Olympic silver with Tan Wee Kiong, added Denmark and Dubai titles in 2016 and later competed independently.Read biography1989—
Tan Wee Kiong
Badminton doubles player and Olympic silver medallistThe Malaysian doubles player whose career spans a Macau title with Hoon Thien How, Olympic silver with Goh V Shem and later independent partnerships.Read biography
1982—
Lee Chong Wei
Former professional badminton playerMalaysia’s most decorated Olympian by medal count, a three-time badminton silver medallist and one of the defining men’s singles players of his era.Read biography
1993—
Pandelela Rinong
Diver and two-time Olympic medallistThe Sarawak diver whose London bronze and Rio silver made her Malaysia’s first woman Olympic medallist and the country’s first Olympic medallist outside badminton.Read biography
1988—
Azizulhasni Awang
Track cyclist and two-time Olympic medallistThe track cyclist who won Olympic bronze and silver, became world keirin champion and delivered Malaysia’s first Olympic medal outside badminton and diving.Read biography
1997—
Aaron Chia
Badminton player and world championThe men’s doubles player whose rear-court attack helped Malaysia win its first badminton world championship and its first two-medal Olympic doubles career.Read biography
1998—
Soh Wooi Yik
Badminton player and world championThe Malaysian men’s doubles player whose partnership with Aaron Chia delivered a world title, two Olympic bronzes and repeated major-tournament finals.Read biographyQuick answers
Malaysia Olympic medal FAQs
Follow Goh and Tan’s six matches in Malaysia’s Rio 2016 men’s doubles run, with every opponent and score.
Explore Malaysia at Tokyo 2020 for the one-silver, one-bronze tally, three medallists and selected non-medal results.
Continue with Malaysia at Paris 2024 for Lee Zii Jia’s first Olympic medal, Chia and Soh’s second bronze, and selected non-medal results.
- How many Olympic medals has Malaysia won?
- Through the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Malaysia has won 15 medals: eight silver and seven bronze.
- Has Malaysia ever won an Olympic gold medal?
- No. Through Paris 2024, Malaysia’s Olympic medal record contains eight silver and seven bronze medals, but no gold.
- Who won Malaysia’s first Olympic medal?
- Brothers Razif Sidek and Jalani Sidek won badminton men’s doubles bronze at Barcelona 1992.
- Who is Malaysia’s most decorated Olympian?
- By total Olympic medals, Lee Chong Wei leads with three men’s singles silver medals from Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.
- Who was Malaysia’s first woman Olympic medallist?
- Pandelela Rinong won women’s 10m platform bronze at London 2012, also becoming Malaysia’s first Olympic medallist outside badminton.
Official sources
How the medal tally was checked
The chronology is checked against Olympic Council of Malaysia records, with Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 reviewed separately. Last reviewed 31 August 2026.