- Cheah Soon Kit
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Cheah Soon Kit 
Personal information Born January 9, 1968
Ipoh, PerakCountry 
MalaysiaMen's doubles BWF Profile This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cheah ( 謝 ).Cheah Soon Kit (simplified Chinese: 谢顺吉; traditional Chinese: 謝順吉; pinyin: Xiè Shùnjí; born 9 January 1968 in Ipoh, Perak) is a retired male badminton player from Malaysia, specialized in men's doubles.
Career
He has played for Malaysian team since 1986 especially in doubles. He always plays with different pairs such as Ong Beng Teong (1986–1989), Soo Beng Kiang (1990–1994) and Choong Tan Fook (1998) during his carer in badminton arena. His regular doubles partner is Yap Kim Hock.
Soon Kit competed in badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with Yap Kim Hock. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Ha Tae-kwon and Kang Kyung-jin of Korea in quarterfinals. In the final, Soon Kit and Kim Hock lost to Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja of Indonesia 15-5, 13-15, 12-15, the former eventually became the national coach for Malaysia's men's doubles.
External links
Olympic medal record Men's Badminton Silver 1996 Atlanta Doubles Categories:- 1968 births
- Living people
- Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games badminton players
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Malaysia
- Badminton players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Badminton players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Malaysian badminton players
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Malaysia
- Malaysian Chinese people
- Olympic badminton players of Malaysia
- Olympic silver medalists for Malaysia
- People from Perak
- Olympic medalists in badminton
- Asian Games medalists in badminton
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