Malaysia Olympic Team 2016

Malaysia competed at the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro brazil from 5 to 21 august 2016.

Malaysia olympic team 2016. The federation of malaya now the states comprising west malaysia competed as malaya mal in the 1956 and 1960 games. Full coverage of the malaysia olympic team at the sochi 2016 from yahoo sports. The olympic council of malaysia fielded a team of 32 athletes 17 men and 15 women across ten sports at the. Team gb will send 366 athletes to rio for the 2016 olympic games.

Get a list of the malaysia olympic athletes schedule and medal count. After these british colonies federated to form an independent malaysia in 1963 the nation competed under that name for. Now they re just happy to be back in the pool. This was the nation s fifteenth appearance at the olympics although it had previously competed in two other editions under the name malaya.

The present day state of sabah sent an independent team to the 1956 games as north borneo and singapore also competed at the olympics from 1948 to 1960. The 2016 rio olympics sees over 11 000 athletes from 206 participating nations competing in 306 events which extends across 28 different sporting categories. The olympic council of malaysia ocm has targeted qualifying between 20 and 25 athletes for rio 2016 despite only five athletes having secured their places to date. Pasukan bola sepak kebangsaan bawah 23 malaysia also known as malaysia under 23 malaysia u 23 or malaysia olympic football team is the national team for the under 23 and 22 level representing malaysia in the olympic games asian games and southeast asian games as well as any other under 23 international football tournaments including the afc u 23 championship.

V shem goh and wee kiong tan of malaysia silver haifeng fu and nan zhang of china gold and marcus ellis and chris langridge of great britain bronze stand on the podium during the medal ceremony after the men s badminton doubles competition on day 14 of the rio 2016 olympic games at riocentro pavilion 4 on august 19 2016 in rio de janeiro brazil. Malaysia national under 23 football team malay. Great britain s team for rio 2016. For malaysia s 15th olympic appearance the olympic council of malaysia ocm sent 32 of our country s best athletes from 11 sports badminton swimming marathon swimming.

Malaysia s lee chong wei beats lin dan to make badminton final. Saturday 9 january 2016.