The legend of badminton in malaysia (Lee Chong Wei)

Datuk Lee Chong Wei 

is a professional badminton player from Malaysia 

who resides in Bukit Mertajam. 

As a singles player,

Datuk Lee was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks 

from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012.

 He is the third Malaysian men's singles shutter 

after Rashid Sidek and Roslin Hashim to achieve such a ranking

 (since official rankings were first kept in the 1980s), 

and is the only Malaysian shutter to hold the ranking for more than two weeks.

 

Datuk Lee is a silver medalist in both the 2012 and 2008 Olympic game,

 thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event 

and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the Year 1996.

 This achievement also earned him the title Datuk, 

and a description by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Sri Najib Abdul Razak 

as a national hero.

 He repeated the achievement four years later in London,

 thus making him the most successful Malaysian Olympian in history.