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Yap Kim Hock AMN (simplified Chinese: 叶锦福; traditional Chinese: 葉錦福; pinyin: Yé Jǐnfú; Jyutping: Jip6 Gam2 Fuk1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ia̍p Kím-hok; born on 2 August 1970) is a retired badminton player from Malaysia. [1] He is the doubles head coach of the Singapore national badminton team. [2]
While playing competitive badminton, he was also a lecturer and eventually the chief of physical education at Institute of Education, until 1975. He was also Singapore's chief badminton coach from 1963 to 1965, [ 1 ] after which he served as honorary visiting coach of the New Zealand national badminton team.
The Singapore national badminton team [a] is a badminton team that represents Singapore in international badminton competitions.
He also represented Singapore to compete in two events at the 1992 Summer Olympics. [2] Hamid retired at the age of 30. He turned to coaching and also served as the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA)’s director of coaching for two years starting in 2000. [3] He is currently the Deputy President of SBA. [4]
Badminton would experience a revival in Singapore after the 1983 Southeast Asian Games, when Wong Shoon Keat won the gold medal at the men's singles. [7]In 2021, Loh Kean Yew made history by becoming the men's singles world champion, winning the title at the 2021 BWF World Championships, becoming the first Singaporean to achieve this feat.
Gu resigned from the Singapore national team on 30 April 2014, citing injuries, tending to her aged parents and lack of progress in Singapore. [4] Gu went to Shanghai for further studies. [5] Sixteen months later after her resignation, she was persuaded by the Singapore national badminton team's head coach to re-join the national team. [5]
He had badminton training twice a day at the Singapore Sports School. [19] From late 2011 onwards, Loh was coached by Kelvin Ho, a former Singapore national badminton player. [3] After graduating from the Singapore Sports School, Loh continued his education at Republic Polytechnic (RP), studying Sports and Leisure Management.
Iskandar Zulkarnain bin Zainuddin (born 24 May 1991) is a Malaysian badminton player and coach. [1] [2] He represented Malaysia as the third singles in the 2018 Thomas Cup and helped Malaysia qualify for the quarter finals. Iskandar was appointed as part of the Irish badminton coaching staff in 2021. [2]