Cheam June Wei


Cheam June Wei is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the mixed doubles gold medalist at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Career

Cheam started playing badminton at aged 8 in Penang. As a junior player, he has been trained by Teh Peng Huat, the former coach of world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, for more than year before training under task Lim Theam Teow. In 2012, he won the mixed team bronze medal at the Asia Junior Championships in Gimcheon, South Korea. In 2014, he was promoted to join the national team from the Bukit Jalil Sports School, and at the same year he competed at the Nanjing Summer Youth Olympics and clinched the mixed doubles title with his partner from Hong Kong, Ng Tsz Yau. He also the runner-up at the 2014 Malaysia International Junior Championships, and at the 2015 Dutch Junior, he was the champion.

Achievements

Youth Olympic Games

Mixed doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2014Nanjing Sport Institute,
Nanjing, China		 Ng Tsz Yau Kanta Tsuneyama
Lee Chia-hsin		21–14, 23–21 Gold

BWF World Tour (1 runner-up)

The BWF World Tour, announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. The BWF World Tour are divided into six levels, namely World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Men's singles
YearTournamentLevelOpponentScoreResult
2018Dutch OpenSuper 100 Sourabh Verma19–21, 13–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 4 runners-up)

Men's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2019Malaysia International Ren Pengbo21–16, 19–21, 21–18 Winner
2019Malaysia International Soong Joo Ven13–21, 20–22 Runner-up
2018Dutch International Adrian Dziółko13–21, 21–13, 21–10 Winner
2018Finnish Open Leong Jun Hao21–12, 17–21, 20–22 Runner-up
2018Austrian International Parupalli Kashyap21–23, 14–21 Runner-up
2017Malaysia International Loh Kean Yew19–21, 14–21 Runner-up