Malaysia's Paris Olympics journey ends with two bronze

Malaysia’s journey in the Paris Olympics has come to an end, with two bronze medals from the badminton team.

The country’s last Olympian to compete was Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom who crashed in the men’s keirin finals earlier this evening. He was caught in a collision while jockeying for third place.

The two bronze medals were won by badminton men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, as well as by men’s singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia.

This is the first Olympics since the 2004 Athens Games where Malaysia failed to win a silver medal.

The country sent 26 athletes to compete in this year’s games, who competed in archery, athletics, diving, golf, sailing, shooting, swimming, and weightlifting.

The badminton team had the best performance, making it to the bronze medal playoff in three events.

Besides Soh, Chia, and Lee, badminton women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan finished in fourth place in their Olympics debut.

Weightlifter Aniq Kasdan came close to a podium finish in the men’s 61kg competition, coming in fourth place by lifting just 1kg behind the bronze medalist.

Diving star Nur Dhabitah Sabri also made it to the finals of the women’s 3m springboard diving event but finished last out of 12.

Golfers Gavin Green and Ashley Lau competed in all four rounds of the golf tournament but ended far from the podium.

All other athletes did not make it to the finals, including cyclist Azizulhasni Awang who was disqualified in a shock result during the men’s keirin event.

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