Yap Kim Hock

Yap Kim Hock
Personal information
Country  Malaysia
Born (1970-07-02) 2 July 1970
Muar, Johor
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Handedness Left
Event Men's & Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Yap Kim Hock (simplified Chinese: 叶锦福; traditional Chinese: 葉錦福; pinyin: Yé Jǐnfú; born on 2 July 1970 in Muar, Johor) is a retired male badminton player from Malaysia, specialised in men's doubles.

Career

Yap represented Malaysia and competed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the badminton men's doubles event with Cheah Soon Kit. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, they had a bye in the first round and defeated Ha Tae-kwon and Kang Kyung-jin of Korea in quarterfinals. In the final, Cheah and Yap lost to Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja of Indonesia 15-5, 13-15, 12-15. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, they could only reached the second round before losing to the Korean doubles.


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