XXIX Olympic Games 2008
08-24 August 2008 | Beijing, China
Malaysia had 32 athletes who took part in ten sports in the games. Lee Chong Wei won the nation’s first medal in twelve years in the badminton men’s singles final despite losing to Lin Dan, from the host country China. It was the second silver medal ever won throughout Malaysia’s participation history since its nationhood in 1957.
Emblem
The official emblem of Beijing 2008 entitled “Chinese Seal-Dancing Beijing” cleverly combines the Chinese seal and the art of calligraphy with sporting features, transforming the elements into a human figure running forward and embracing triumph. The figure resembles the Chinese character “Jing”, which stands for the name of the host city and represents a particularly significant Chinese style. The artwork embodies four messages:
- Chinese culture
- The color of red China
- Beijing welcomes friends from all over the world
- To challenge the extreme and achieve the perfect and promote the Olympic motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger)
Mascot
BEI JING HUAN YING NIN
Each name rhymes by repeating the same syllable: a traditional Chinese way of showing affection to children. Linking the five names forms the sentence “Welcome to Beijing” (Bei Jing Huan Ying Nin). The mascots form the “Fuwa”, which translates as “good-luck dolls”.
Torch
Number of torchbearers: 21,800 including 630 in Greece
Total distance: 137,000km including 1,528 in Greece and 97,000 in continental China
Countries crossed: Almaty, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, London, Paris, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Dar es Salaam, Muscat, Islamabad, New Delhi, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Canberra, Nagano, Seoul, Pyongyang, Ho Chi Minh City, Macao. The 2008 Olympic Flame also reached the summit of Mount Everest
Athletes & Officials
Click on any of the sport’s icon to view the list of athletes & officials.
Medals
1
Silver
Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi was born on the 8th of November 1938. After his retirement in 1991, as an Engineer in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Dato’ Sieh chose to continue his involvement, full time, in the field of sports, where his life-long passion was, especially in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).
Born on 21st March 1949, Y.A.M Tunku Tan Sri Imran is the second son of the late Tuanku Jaafar, an elected monarch of the Negeri Sembilan. Tunku Imran was educated in the UK at the King’s School, Canterbury and studied law at Nottingham University before being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1971 and qualifying as a Barrister at Law.