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Aaron-Wooi Yik win first badminton world title for

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By  Bernama  - August 28, 2022 3:49 PM

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Aaron Chia (right) and Soh Wooi Yik celebrate with their gold medals after winning the men’s doubles badminton final today in
Tokyo. (AP pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: Top men’s doubles pair Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik gave Malaysia a fitting National
Day gift by winning the 2022 World Badminton Championships title in Tokyo today.

In the final at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Aaron-Wooi Yik scored an emphatic 21-19, 21-
14 victory in 40 minutes over former three-time world champions Mohammad Ahsan-Hendra
Setiawan of Indonesia.

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The win over the Indonesians, dubbed ‘The Daddies’, has made Aaron-Wooi Yik the first
Malaysian shuttlers to be crowned world champions.

In their three previous outings at the world meet, world number six Aaron-Wooi Yik had only
gone as far as the quarterfinals, at the 2018 edition in Nanjing, China.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics bronze medallists were also the first Malaysian pair to enter the final in
12 years, after Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong did it in the 2010 edition in Paris.

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