My badminton Idol

 

Datuk Lee Chong Wei was born 21 October 1982 in Bagan Serai, Perak. He is a Malaysian professional badminton player who is ranked World No. 1 by the Badminton World Federation. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. He is the third Malaysian player after Rashid Sidek and Roslin Hashim to achieve such a ranking (since official rankings were first kept in the 1980s), and is the only Malaysian shuttler to hold the number one ranking for more than a year.  

Lee is a silver medallist in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, becoming the sixth Malaysian won a medal in Olympic Games. He also becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia’s Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games. This achievement also earned him the title Datuk, and a description by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as a national hero.  He repeated the achievement four years later in London, thus making him the most successful Malaysian Olympian in history.