Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a Malaysian former badminton player.

He was born in Bagan

Serai, Perak,[11] into a Malaysian Chinese family, to Lee Ah Chai and Khor Kim Choi. He
began to learn badminton at the age of 11. Discovered by Misbun Sidek, he was drafted
into the national squad in 2000 when he was seventeen years old.
On 13 June 2019, Lee announced his retirement after almost a year since he was
diagnosed with nose cancer and failed to return to competition despite dropping several
hints that he would make a return in early 2019. This ended his 19-year-long
international badminton career. The retirement came under his doctor's advice to avoid
high-intensity training to avoid a relapse of his cancer.
Members of the media and players alike paid tribute to him after the announcement.
His career-long rival, Lin Dan, wrote on Sina Weibo that he now has to "head into battle
alone, as he no longer has a companion anymore and shared a song titled "Don't Cry,
Friend".
He received RM 300,000 on 21 August 2008, as a reward for his silver medal effort in the
2008 Olympic Games. Also, he received RM 3,000 a month as a lifetime pension
beginning in August 2008.
He is a triple silver medalist at the Olympic Games, and the sixth Malaysian to win an
Olympic medal. He won his first silver medal in 2008, also the first time a Malaysian had
reached the finals in the men's singles event. His achievement earned him the title
Datuk, and led to then Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak describing him as national
hero. He repeated the achievement twice more in 2012 and 2016, thus making him the
most successful Malaysian Olympian in history.