Malaysia at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Malaysia managed to qualify 30 athletes competing in 10 sports for the 2020 Summer Olympics, with 13 of them being first time competitors.^[23] For the first time, the women (18 athletes or 60%) outnumbered the men (12 athletes/40%) on the Malaysian team competing at these Games.^[24]

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[25]

Two Malaysian archers Khairul Anuar Mohamad and Syaqiera Mashayikh qualified for the men's and women's individual and automatically to the mixed event, the men's individual recurve reached the quarterfinal stage and obtained one of the four available spots at the 2019 World Archery Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.^[26] The women's individual recurve obtain a quota place assigned by world ranking.^[27]

Malaysia was absent from the men's archery team event for the first time since the 2008 Games, after failing to secure one of the last three spots to the Games offered in the 2021 Archery Final Olympic Qualification Tournament (FQT) in Paris, France, leaving Khairul as the nation's sole male representative.^[28] Khairul ended the ranking round of the men's individual recurve event in 20th spot, shooting 72 arrows to collect 661 points.^[29] He then proceeded to the elimination stage and won through the one-arrow shoot-off in the first and second round against Finland's Antti Vikstrom and China's Wang Dapeng respectively, only to be eliminated in the round of 16 after losing to South Korea's opponent Kim Woojin 0–6.^[30][31]

Syaqiera became the third Malaysian woman archer to feature in the Olympics after Mon Redee Sut Txi in Athens 2004 and Nurul Syafiqah Hashim in London 2012. She was the first Malaysian athlete to take an action at the Games. In the ranking round, she ended the competition in 43rd spot out of 64 archers with 630 points to improve on her previous record of 619 points which she achieved at the final Olympic qualifier in Paris.^[32] Syaqiera was eliminated in the first round (Round of 64) after her 4–6 defeat against Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) competitor and eventual silver medalist, Elena Osipova.^[33]

The Malaysian duo failed to advance to the first round of the mixed team event, after scoring a combined total of 1,291 points in the ranking round, which placed them as the 19th best pair among 29 competing teams.

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Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Khairul Anuar Mohamad	Men's individual	661	20	Vikström (FIN) W 6–5	Wang Dp (CHN) W 6–5	Kim W-j (KOR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Syaqiera Mashayikh	Women's individual	630	43	Osipova (ROC) L 4–6	Did not advance
Khairul Anuar Mohamad Syaqiera Mashayikh	Mixed team	1291	19	—N/a		Did not advance

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Malaysian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):.^[34][35]

Track & road events

Field events

Malaysia qualified a total of eight badminton players (four per gender) for the following events based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings: one entry each in the men's and women's singles; and a pair each in the men's, women's, and mixed doubles.^[36]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Lee Zii Jia	Singles	Pochtarov (UKR) W (21–5, 21–11)	Leverdez (FRA) W (21–17, 21–5)	—N/a	1 Q	Chen L (CHN) L (21–8, 19–21, 5–21)	Did not advance
Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik	Doubles	Choi S-g / Seo S-j (KOR) W (24–22, 21–15)	Ahsan / Setiawan (INA) L (16–21, 19–21)	Ho-Shue / Yakura (CAN) W (21–15, 21–13)	2 Q	—N/a	Gideon / Sukamuljo (INA) W (21–14, 21–17)	Li JH / Liu YC (CHN) L (22–24, 13–21)	Ahsan / Setiawan (INA) W (17–21, 21–17, 21–14)

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Soniia Cheah Su Ya	Singles	Sárosi (HUN) W WO	Intanon (THA) L (21–19, 18–21, 10–21)	—N/a	2	Did not advance
Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean	Doubles	Polii / Rahayu (INA) L (14–21, 17–21)	Fukushima / Hirota (JPN) L (21–17, 15–21, 8–21)	Birch / Smith (GBR) W (21–19, 21–16)	3	—N/a	Did not advance

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Mixed

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Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Chan Peng Soon Goh Liu Ying	Doubles	Tang C M / Tse Y S (HKG) L (18–21, 21–10, 16–21)	Lamsfuß / Herttrich (GER) L (12–21, 15–21)	Wang YL / Huang DP (CHN) L (13–21, 19–21)	4	Did not advance

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Four Malaysian divers, all female, qualified for the following individual spots and synchronized teams at the Games through the 2019 FINA World Championships and 2019 Asian Cup. Additionally, Cheong Jun Hoong qualified to the Olympics after finishing eighteenth in the semifinal round of the women's platform in the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup thereby adding the country's number of divers to five.^[37] This was the first time that Malaysia did not have male representatives in diving since its debut at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, as none of its male divers at least qualified through the World Cup.^[38][39] The national team would eventually return to the men's event for the 2024 edition in Paris.^[40]

Three of the five divers reached the final, including London 2012 bronze medalist and Rio 2016 Silver medalist Pandelela Rinong. For the first time since the London 2012 Summer Olympics, none of the divers secure a medal for the country, including Nur Dhabitah Sabri who narrowly missed the podium finish in the Women's 3 m springboard finals.^[41]

Malaysia entered one male and one female golfer into the Olympic tournament. Rio 2016 Olympian Gavin Green (world no. 286) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the men's event based on the IGF World Rankings of 20 June 2021 while Kelly Tan (world no.154) also qualified directly on 29 June 2021.

Malaysian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the fleet-associated Worlds, the 2018 Asian Games, and the continental regattas.^[46]

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Malaysia granted an invitation from ISSF to send London 2012 Olympian Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi in women's rifle shooting to the Olympics, as long as the minimum qualifying score (MQS) was fulfilled by June 6, 2021.^[47] Nur Suryani competing in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions failed to advance to that event's final. She scored 1142 in the qualification round, placing her as the 34th best shooter among 37 competitors.^[48]

Malaysia received a universality invitation from FINA to send two top-ranked swimmers (one per gender) in their respective individual events to the Olympics, based on the FINA Points System of June 28, 2021.^[49][50]

Rio 2016 Olympians Welson Sim and Phee Jinq En failed to advance to the next round of their respective events.^[51] However, Phee smashed a Malaysian record of 1:08.40 in the women's 100 m breaststroke, eclipsing a tenth of a second in her record time that she set from the 2019 SEA Games.^[52]

• Malaysia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
• Malaysia at the Olympics

• Team Malaysia – 2020 Summer Olympics NOC Profile