Malaysia at the 1998 Asian Games

Malaysia at the
1998 Asian Games
Malaysia at the; 1998 Asian Games
IOC code	MAS
NOC	Olympic Council of Malaysia
Website	www.olympic.org.my (in English)
in Bangkok
Competitors	134 in 18 sports
Medals; Ranked 12th	Gold 5 Silver 10 Bronze 14 Total 29
Asian Games appearances (overview)
	1954; 1958; 1962; 1966; 1970; 1974; 1978; 1982; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026;
Other related appearances
	North Borneo (1954, 1958, 1962); Sarawak (1962)

Malaysia competed in the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from 6 to 20 December 1998. Malaysia ended the games at 29 overall medals.^[1] Its chef-de-mission was Zakaria Ahmad.^[2]

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Badminton	0	0	2	2	6
Cue sports	1	1	0	2	4
Equestrian	0	1	1	2	4
Karate	2	0	4	6	2
Sailing	0	3	0	3	8
Sepaktakraw	0	2	1	3	3
Squash	1	0	1	2	2
Swimming	1	1	1	3	4
Taekwondo	0	1	1	2	10
Wushu	0	1	1	2	7
Total	5	10	14	29	12

Multiple medalists

Malaysian competitors that have won at least two medals.

Name	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Alex Lim	Swimming	1	1		2
Sam Chong	Cue sports	1	1		2
Yong Hock Kin	Badminton			2	2

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ooi Chin Kay Sam Chong	Cue sports	Men's snooker doubles
Gold	Muralitharan Chandra	Karate	Men's kumite 55 kg
Gold	Muniandy Rajoo	Karate	Men's kumite 70 kg
Gold	Nicol David	Squash	Women's singles
Gold	Alex Lim	Swimming	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Silver	Sam Chong	Cue sports	Men's snooker singles
Silver	Nur Quzandria Mahamad Fathil Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil Syed Omar Al-Mohdzar Wan Zaleha Radzi	Equestrian	Team dressage
Silver	Mohd Nazmi Sharif	Sailing	Men's optimist
Silver	Kevin Lim	Sailing	Men's laser
Silver	Malik Sulaiman	Sailing	Super Moth
Silver		Sepaktakraw	Men's regu
Silver		Sepaktakraw	Men's team
Silver	Alex Lim	Swimming	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Silver	Lee Wan Yuen	Taekwondo	Women's +70 kg
Silver	Oh Poh Soon	Wushu	Men's changquan
Bronze	Yong Hock Kin	Badminton	Men's singles
Bronze	Chan Chong Ming Cheah Soon Thoe James Chua Jeremy Gan Roslin Hashim Pang Cheh Chang Wong Choong Hann Yong Hock Kin	Badminton	Men's team
Bronze	Sarah Yap	Bowling	Women's singles
Bronze	Quzier Ambak Mahamad Fathil	Equestrian	Individual jumping
Bronze	Arivalagan Ponniah	Karate	Men's kumite 75 kg
Bronze	Suresh Rao Subramaniam	Karate	Men's kumite +75 kg
Bronze	Lim Lee Lee	Karate	Women's individual kata
Bronze	Premila Supramaniam	Karate	Women's kumite +60 kg
Bronze		Sepaktakraw	Men's circle
Bronze	Kenneth Low	Squash	Men's singles
Bronze	Elvin Chia	Swimming	Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Bronze	Soo Lai Yin	Taekwondo	Women's 55 kg
Bronze	Ho Ro Bin	Wushu	Men's nanquan

Athletics

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men
Track events

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Watson Nyambek	100 m	10.25	1 Q			11.41	4
Romzi Bakar	400 m	47.69	3 q	47.73	5	Did not advance
Yazid Parlan	400 m	48.37	3 q	48.41	8	Did not advance
Teoh Boon Lim	20 km road walk	—				Disqualified
Govindasamy Saravanan	50 km road walk	—				Did not finish
Teoh Boon Lim	50 km road walk	—				4:45:36	5
	4 × 400 m relay			3:09.01	4 q	3:10.31	8

Field event

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Loo Kum Zee	High jump	—		2.19	14

Women
Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shanti Govindasamy	100 m	11.47	3 Q	—		11.41	4
Shanti Govindasamy	200 m	23.56	2 Q	—		23.42	4
Yuan Yufang	10,000 m track walk	—				45:33.92	4

Badminton

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Roslin Hashim	Men's singles	Ng Wei (HKG) W 15–9, 15–7	Boonsak Ponsana (THA) W 15–8, 11–15, 17–16	Hendrawan (INA) L 11–15, 6–15	Did not advance
Yong Hock Kin (2)	Men's singles	Bye	Tam Kai Chuen (HKG) W 17–14, 15–5	Pullela Gopichand (IND) W 15–7, 15–4	Dong Jiong (CHN) L 5–15, 10–15	Did not advance
Chan Chong Ming Jeremy Gan	Men's doubles	Fumihiko Machida Seiichi Watanabe (JPN) W 15–12, 15–9	Lee Wei-jen Horng Shin-jeng (TPE) W 15–12, 14–17, 15–10	Pramote Teerawiwatana Siripong Siripool (THA) L 7–15, 15–13, 4–15	Did not advance
Ng Mee Fen	Women's singles	Koon Wai Chee (HKG) W 10–13, 11–7, 11–6	Aparna Popat (IND) W 11–7, 11–8	Gong Zhichao (CHN) L 7–11, 3–11	Did not advance
Woon Sze Mei	Women's singles	Chan Ya-lin (TPE) L 2–11, 2–11	Did not advance
Joanne Quay Law Pei Pei	Women's doubles	—	Ra Kyung-min Chung Jae-hee (KOR) L 2–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Lim Pek Siah Chor Hooi Yee	Women's doubles	—	Sathinee Chankrachangwong Mathinee Naraweerawut (THA) L 4–15, 8–15	Did not advance
Chan Chong Ming Joanne Quay	Mixed doubles	Kennevic Asuncion Amparo Lim (PHI) W 15–0, 15–11	Budi Santoso Meiluawati (INA) W 15–10, 15–5	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min (KOR) L 3–15, 4–15	Did not advance
Wong Choong Hann Chor Hooi Yee	Mixed doubles	Chang Jeng-shyuang Chen Li-chin (TPE) W 12–15, 15–13, 15–11	Lee Dong-soo Yim Kyung-jin (KOR) L 2–15, 7–15	Did not advance

Men's team
Quarterfinal

9 December

Chinese Taipei

1–4

Malaysia

Chen Feng	0–2	Yong Hock Kin	13–15, 11–15
Horng Shin-jeng / Lee Wei-jen	2–1	Pang Cheh Chang / Cheah Soon Thoe	15–10, 5–15, 12–15
Lee Mou-chou	0–2	Roslin Hashim	7–15, 9–15
Lee Sung-yuan / Lin Wei-hsiang	0–2	Chan Chong Ming / Jeremy Gan	14–17, 6–15
Chien Yu-hsiu	0–2	Wong Choong Hann	15–10, 15–9

Semifinal

10 December

Indonesia

4–1

Malaysia

Hendrawan	2–0	Yong Hock Kin	15–4, 15–7
Ricky Subagja / Rexy Mainaky	2–0	Pang Cheh Chang / Cheah Soon Thoe	15–5, 15–5
Taufik Hidayat	0–2	Roslin Hashim	10–15, 14–17
Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan	2–0	Chan Chong Ming / Jeremy Gan	15–5, 15–4
Budi Santoso	2–0	Wong Choong Hann	15–9, 15–9

Ranked 3rd in final standings

Women's team
Quarterfinal

8 December

Malaysia

0–5

Indonesia

Woon Sze Mei	0–2	Mia Audina	1–11, 2–11
Lim Pek Siah / Chor Hooi Yee	0–2	Eliza Nathanael / Deyana Lomban	6–15, 10–15
Lee Yin Yin	0–2	Meiluawati	3–11, 2–11
Law Pei Pei / Joanne Quay	0–2	Indarti Isolina / Carmelita	0–15, 1–15
Ng Mee Fen	0–2	Cindana Hartono	3–15, 7–15

Bowling

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Sarah Yap	Singles
Low Poh Lian	Masters	1524	15

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rakib Ahmad	Men's flyweight (51 kg)	Bye	Bulat Zhumadilov (KAZ) L 9–20	Did not advance
Adnan Yusoh	Men's bantamweight (54 kg)	Bye	Ihab Tafesh (PLE) W RSC	Sontaya Wongprates (THA) L 6–19	Did not advance
Muruguthevan Balakrishnan	Men's lightweight (60 kg)	—	Asghar Ali Shah (PAK) L 2–5	Did not advance

Cue sports

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ewin Lean Kam Beng	English billiards singles	—		Praput Chaithanasakun (THA) L 0–3	Did not advance
Moh Loon Hong	English billiards singles	—		Mongkol Kanfaklang (THA) L 0–3	Did not advance
Lee Thye Hong Ooi Chin Kay	English billiards doubles	—		Mikhail Kim Bahtiyor Umarov (UZB) W	Devendra Joshi Balchandra Bhaskar (IND) L 0–3	Did not advance
Moh Loon Hong Ewin Lean Kam Beng	English billiards doubles	—		Kohobala Sirisama Sabdeen Shaharwardi (SRI) W 3–0	Reynaldo Grandea Ricardo Ancaja (PHI) L 1–3	Did not advance
Tan Kah Thiam Chew Lean Teng	Eight-ball doubles	—		Chong Wei Onn Tan Lai Huat (SIN) W 7–6	Yang Ching-shun Chao Fong-pang (TPE) L 3–9	Did not advance
Ng Aun Seng Ooi Fuk Yuen	Eight-ball doubles	—		Kuniko Takahashi Satoshi Kawabata (JPN) L 2–7	Romeo Villanueva Gandy Valle (PHI) L 10–11	Did not advance
Ng Aun Seng	Nine-ball singles	—		Chatchawan Ruptae (THA) L 6–9	Did not advance
Ooi Fuk Yuen	Nine-ball singles	—		Morishima Mitsuyoshi (JPN) L 7–9	Did not advance
Ng Aun Seng Ooi Fuk Yuen	Nine-ball doubles	—		Lin Didi Zhang Kai (CHN) W 9–8	Romeo Villanueva Gandy Valle (PHI) L 10–11	Did not advance
Tan Kah Thiam Chong Tin Sam	Nine-ball doubles	—		Mikhail Kim Bahtiyor Umarov (UZB) W	Kuniko Takahashi Morishima Mitsuyoshi (JPN) L 5–9	Did not advance
Ooi Chin Kay	Snooker singles	Bye	Jamsran Enkhlur (MGL) W 5–0	Marco Fu (HKG) W 5–3	Mohammed Al-Hashemi (IND) W 5–2	Shokat Ali (PAK) L 5–6	Bronze medal match Chan Kwok Ming (HKG) L 0–5	4
Sam Chong	Snooker singles	Bye	Bernard Tey Choon Kiat (SIN) W 5–4	Hung Chung Ming (TPE) W 5–2	Yashin Merchant (IND) W 5–4	Chan Kwok Ming (HKG) W 6–2	Gold medal match Shokat Ali (PAK) L 6–7
Sam Chong Ooi Chin Kay	Snooker doubles	—					Gold medal match Phaitoon Phonbun Noppadon Noppachorn (THA) W 6–4
Sam Chong Ooi Chin Kay	Snooker team	—		Mongolia (MGL) W 3–0	Singapore (SIN) W 2–1	Thailand (THA) L 1–2	Bronze medal match Pakistan (PAK) L 1–2	4

Cycling

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Nor Effandy Rosli	Men's road race	4:41:21	8
Shahrulneeza Razali		4:59:32	26
Mohd Mahazir Hamad		4:59:32	29

Equestrian

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Horse	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Nur Quzandria Mahamad Fathil	??	Individual dressage			Did not advance
Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil	Pizazz Girande Camelias		1108	5 Q	1179	5
Syed Omar Al-Mohdzar	Jirlow		1100	6 Q	1093	13
Wan Zaleha Radzi	Chagall Junior		1066	8 Q	1114	8
Nur Quzandria Mahamad Fathil Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil Syed Omar Al-Mohdzar Wan Zaleha Radzi	??; Pizazz Girande; Jirlow; Chagall Junior;	Team dressage	—		3274

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Horse	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Koh Thong Hau	Roberto Bold	Individual jumping	55.50	20 Q	52.50	32
Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil	San Patrignano		71.00	6 Q	104.00	6
Quzier Ambak Mahamad Fathil	Heros		78.50	3 Q	121.00
Tunku Mokhsin	Domingo		44.50	25 Q	54.50	31
Koh Thong Hau Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil Quzier Ambak Mahamad Fathil Tunku Mokhsin	Roberto Bold; San Patrignano; Heros; Domingo;	Team jumping	96.00	4 Q	159.50	4

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Penalties			Total	Rank
Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage	Cross-country	Jumping	Total	Rank
Tunku Nazroff	Sprite	Individual eventing	80.40	0.00	5.00	85.40	9
Husref Malek	McPherson		124.80	0.00	10.00	134.80	13
Ashraff Denal Ali	Deutsche Mark		81.80	WD	–	1000.00	–
James Ravindra	Alf		62.60	EL	–	1000.00	–
Tunku Nazroff Husref Malek Ashraff Denal Ali James Ravindra	Sprite; McPherson; Deutsche Mark; Alf;	Team eventing	267.80	937.40	15.00	1220.20	4

Field hockey

Men's tournament

Squad list	Pool matches		Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
	Japan T 1–1 Hong Kong W 9–0 Pakistan L 1–2 Singapore W 6–0		Did not advance

Gymnastics

Rhythmic

Women

Athlete	Event
Athlete	Event	Rope Rank	Hoop Rank	Clubs Rank	Ribbon Rank	Total	Rank
Carolyn Au Yong	Individual all-around					37.023	13

Karate

Men
Kumite

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Muralitharan Chandra	55 kg	Ho Pak Chun (MAC) W 6–0	Muhammed Shukri Masri (BRU) W 6–0	Isfan Tanjung (INA) W 6–5	Gold medal match Bader Al-Otaibi (KUW) W 6–1
Puvaneswaran Ramasamy	60 kg	Arif Taufan Syamsuddin (INA) L 0–6	Did not advance
Muniandy Rajoo	70 kg	Dipak Shrestha (NEP) W 6–0	Vu Quoc Huy (VIE) W 6–5	Raafat Al-Karad (SYR) W 6–2	Gold medal match Mehdi Amouzadeh (IRI) W 6–1
Arivalagan Ponniah	75 kg	Sadullo Kosimov (TJK) W 2–0	Liao Yun-chih (TPE) W 2–2	Alireza Katiraei (IRI) L 1–11	Bronze medal match Osama Ali (SYR) W 3–1
Suresh Rao Subramaniam	+75 kg	Krishna Gurung (NEP) W 3–2	Nour Shamseh (SYR) W 2–1		Bronze medal match Moukhammad Bodakov (TJK) W 6–2

Women
Kata

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Lim Lee Lee	Individual kata	36.2	3 Q	41.5

Kumite

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ng Chai Lin	53 kg		Lamis Al-Sabsabi (SYR) L 0–2	Did not advance
Lim Lee Lee	60 kg			Tham Pham Hong (VIE) L 1–3	Bronze medal match Phetlada Ausabay (THA) L 1–2	4
Premila Supramaniam	+60 kg		Natalya Solodilova (KAZ) W 6–3	Panadda Tamchuchaichana (THA) L 2–3

Sailing

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Net points	Rank
Mohd Nazmi Sharif	Optimist	18
Kevin Lim	Laser	18

Open

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Net points	Rank
Malik Sulaiman	Super Moth	17

Squash

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kenneth Low (3)	Men's singles	Bye	Koo Ryun-hoe (KOR) W 9–0, 9–1, 9–1	Jackie Lee (HKG) W 9–1, 9–5, 9–1	Zarak Jahan Khan (PAK) L 8–10, 7–9, 0–9	Did not advance
Ong Beng Hee (5)	Men's singles	Bye	Saman Tillekeratne (SRI) W 9–6, 9–3, 9–5	Amjad Khan (PAK) L 4–9, 6–9, 9–1, 8–10	Did not advance
Kuan Choy Lin (3)	Women's singles	—	Sohini Kumari (IND) W 9–4, 9–0, 9–0	Della Lee (SIN) L 5–9, 6–9, 10–9, 8–10	Did not advance
Nicol David (1)	Women's singles	—	Bye	Masami Kofuji (JPN) W 9–3, 9–2, 9–0	Mah Li Lian (SIN) W 9–5, 9–1, 9–7	Gold medal match Rebecca Chiu (HKG) W 9–3, 9–1, 9–6

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alex Lim	100 m backstroke	57.65	3 Q	55.53
Alex Lim	200 m backstroke		Q	2:00.94 NR
Elvin Chia	100 m breaststroke	1:03.81	4 Q	1:03.09

Wushu

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Oh Poh Soon	Changquan	27.78
Ho Ro Bin	Nanquan	9.30

References

^ "Overall medal standings – Bangkok 1998". Olympic Council of Asia. ocasia.org. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
^ Slide share

[1] "Overall medal standings – Bangkok 1998". Olympic Council of Asia. ocasia.org. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

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