{"id":873,"date":"2025-11-11T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=873"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:43:57","slug":"aaron-chia-named-melaka-sportsman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/aaron-chia-named-melaka-sportsman-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Chia named Melaka Sportsman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Chia\u2019s list of accolades continued to grow after he was named the Melaka Sportsman of the Year on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Malaysian shuttler edged out pole vaulter Hafidzul Ain, silat exponent Danial Azrol Noorazizan and wushu athlete Bryan Ti Kai Jie to claim the 2023\/24 honour at the 39th Melaka Sports Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognised his outstanding achievements for the period, including bronze medals at both the 2023 World Championships and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Chia, along with men\u2019s doubles partner Soh Wooi Yik, also enjoyed a strong 2025 season, reaching five BWF World Tour finals and clinching the Thailand Open and Singapore Open titles.<\/p>\n<p>They also won an Asian Championships gold medal in April, defeating home pair Chen Boyang\/Liu Yi in Ningbo, China.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, wushu star Tan Cheong Min was crowned Melaka Sportswoman of the Year at the same ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmelakabadmintonassociation%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0MQX2sgjm5WkvHjvdaYn2wAuLj8JbFesS6bBMAKZASjXqjEmwjjmKyQvnTCXso71El&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Chia\u2019s list of accolades continued to grow after he was named the Melaka Sportsman of the Year on Monday. The 28-year-old Malaysian shuttler edged out pole vaulter Hafidzul Ain, silat exponent Danial Azrol Noorazizan and wushu athlete Bryan Ti Kai Jie to claim the 2023\/24 honour at the 39th Melaka Sports Awards. The award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/aaron-chia-named-melaka-sportsman-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aaron Chia named Melaka Sportsman of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[356,299,225],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-aaron-chia","tag-badminton-en","tag-bwf-world-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}