Chan Peng Soon

Chan Peng Soon
Chan Peng Soon at the 2013 French Super Series.
Personal information
Country	Malaysia
Born	(1988-04-27) 27 April 1988 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Handedness	Right
Coach	Jeremy Gan
Men's & Mixed doubles
Highest ranking	3 (XD)
Current ranking	3(XD) (7 November 2016)
Medal record Men's badminton Representing  Malaysia Olympics Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Mixed Doubles Asian Games 2014 Incheon Men's team Asian Championships 2010 New Delhi Mixed doubles Thomas Cup 2014 New Delhi Team Commonwealth Games 2010 New Delhi Mixed team 2014 Glasgow Mixed team Southeast Asian Games 2009 Vientiane Men's team 2015 Singapore Mixed doubles 2009 Vientiane Mixed doubles
BWF profile
Updated on 23:16, 27 May 2014 (UTC).

Chan Peng Soon (born 27 April 1988 in George Town, Penang) is a Malaysian professional badminton doubles player. His regular partner is Goh Liu Ying but in June 2014, Lai Pei Jing was named as his new partner while Goh went on hiatus to recover from knee surgery. Chan and Lai ranked as high as No. 48 worldwide.

Chan resumed his partnership with Goh as of 2015 and at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, they became the first Malaysian mixed doubles pair to win a Silver medal when they reached the finals of the mixed doubles event in Rio.

Personal life

Chan has been married to Malaysian singer, Ester Cham May May since September 2010. They have a son, Milton Chan (b. 2011) and a Daughter, Hannah Chan (b. 2015).

Achievements

Olympic Games (0 gold; 1 silver; 0 bronze)

• 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chan competed in badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics in mixed doubles with partner Goh Liu Ying and earned a silver medal. They were defeated in the final by the gold medalists Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir of Indonesia in straight sets 21–14 and 21–12.

2016 Summer Olympics – Mixed Doubles
Round	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
Group stage	Goh Liu Ying	Bodin Issara Savitree Amitrapai	21–13, 21–19	Win
Group stage		Robin Middleton Leanne Choo	21–17, 21–15	Win
Group stage		Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	15-21, 11-21	Lose
Quarterfinal		Robert Mateusiak Nadieżda Zięba	21–17, 21–10	Win
Semifinal		Xu Chen Ma Jin	21–12, 21-19	Win
Final		Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	14-21, 12-21	Silver

Finals: 15 (9 titles, 6 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	2009	Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold	Lim Khim Wah	Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah	20–22, 21–14, 21–11
Runner-up	2009	Vietnam Open Grand Prix Gold	Goh Liu Ying	Flandy Limpele Cheng Wen-hsing	23–25, 19–21
Winner	2010	Asian Championships	Goh Liu Ying	Yoo Yeon-seong Kim Min-jung	21–17, 20–22, 21–19
Runner-up	2011	Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold	Goh Liu Ying	Tantowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	21–18, 15–21, 19–21
Winner	2011	Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold	Goh Liu Ying	Thomas Laybourn Kamilla Rytter Juhl	21–18, 14–21, 27–25
Runner-up	2012	Australia Open Grand Prix Gold	Goh Liu Ying	Chen Hung-ling Cheng Wen-hsing	20–22, 21–12, 21–23
Winner	2012	Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold	Goh Liu Ying	Irfan Fadhilah Weni Anggraini	21–12, 21–14
Winner	2012	Japan Super Series	Goh Liu Ying	Muhammad Rijal Lilyana Natsir	21–12, 21–19
Winner	2015	Polish Open	Goh Liu Ying	Akshay Dewalkar Pradnya Gadre	28–26, 21–18
Winner	2015	Russian Open	Goh Liu Ying	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	21-14, 21-12
Winner	2015	Mexico Open	Goh Liu Ying	Choi Sol-gyu Eom Hye-won	21-13, 23–21
Runner-up	2016	Thailand Masters	Goh Liu Ying	Zheng Siwei Chen Qingchen	17-21, 15-21
Winner	2016	New Zealand Open	Goh Liu Ying	Zheng Siwei Li Yinhui	21-19, 22-20
Runner-up	2016	Malaysia Open	Goh Liu Ying	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	21-23, 21-13, 16-21
Runner-up	2016	2016 Rio Oympics	Goh Liu Ying	Tantowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	14-21. 12-21

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chan Peng Soon.

• Profile at Badminton Association of Malaysia
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