Malaysian badminton player

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yap (葉).Badminton playerBWF profile

Yap Kim Hock AMN (simplified Chinese: 叶锦福; traditional Chinese: 葉錦福; pinyin: Yé Jǐnfú; born on 2 August 1970) is a retired badminton player from Malaysia. He is currently the Doubles Head Coach of the Singapore national badminton team.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Achievements
  • 2.1 Olympic Games
  • 2.2 World Championships
  • 2.3 World Cup
  • 2.4 Asian Championships
  • 2.5 Asian Cup
  • 2.6 Southeast Asian Games
  • 2.7 Commonwealth Games
  • 2.8 IBF World Grand Prix
  • 2.9 IBF International
• 3 Honour
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

He had played with different pairs such as Tan Kim Her (1989–1994) and Cheah Soon Kit (1995–2000). Yap represented Malaysia and competed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the badminton men's doubles event with Cheah Soon Kit. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, they had a bye in the first round and defeated Denny Kantono and Antonius Ariantho of Indonesia in semifinals. In the final, Cheah and Yap lost to Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja of Indonesia 15–5, 13–15, 12–15. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, they could only reach the second round before losing to the Korean doubles.

Achievements

Olympic Games

Men's doubles

World Championships

Men's doubles

World Cup

Men's doubles

Asian Championships

Men's doubles

Asian Cup

Men's doubles

Southeast Asian Games

Men's doubles

Commonwealth Games

Men's doubles

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006.

Men's doubles

IBF International

Men's doubles

Honour

Honour of Malaysia

• :Malaysia::
  • Member of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (A.M.N.) (1995)

References

External links

• Yap Kim Hock at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)