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DATUK NICOL
ANN DAVID

MALAYSIAN PROFESSIONAL
SQUASH PLAYER

BIOGRAPHY Full name: Datuk Nicol Ann David
Nickname: Duracell Bunny

Born: August 6, 1983 in Penang,
Malaysia

Residence: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Age: 37 years old
Height: 1.62 m
Weight: 55 kg
Country: Malaysia

She was As a youngster, Nicol Ann David’s She has two sisters,
raised as a favourite subject is mathematics. She Lianne and Cheryl,
both of whom are
Roman dreamed of one day becoming an
Catholic. engineer. Her primary education was accomplished
squash players at
at Sekolah Kebangsaan Convent the national level.
Green Lane. Nicol David scored seven
David is the daughter of Ann
A's for her Penilaian Menengah Marie David, a retired Malaysian
Rendah (PMR) and obtained seven
Chinese school teacher of
A's in her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia Hokkien-Hakka descent and
(SPM), the equivalent to GCSE, which Desmond David, a Malaysian
she studied at Convent Green Lane Indian engineer of Tamil descent

Secondary School in Green Lane, who is also a former state
Penang. athlete and footballer.

Nicol David is queen on the squash court.
She is an eight-time World Champion, a
nine-time Asian Squash Champion, a six-

time WISPA Player of theYear, the
youngest player to win a World Junior
Championship and the first Asian woman

to win the title of World #1.
To add to that, she held onto that title for
a record-breaking 108 months. While her
squash career is not without its dips and
troughs, the highs are bright and glittering
beyond fathom. When she has time, Nicol
David loves to doodle, street dance, and
visit her hometown in Penang to eat char

kuey teow and chili crab.

Every Malaysian is proud of squash queen Datuk Nicol
Ann David, who has been crowned by the World Games
as the "Greatest Athlete of All Time“, simply a
phenomenal recognition.

This new award for
eight-time World
Squash champion
and record-holder
of the World No. 1
rank for 108
consecutive months
(nine years) is no
small feat.

AWARDS 1999 1999 2009

-Won the women’s Registered wins at the -Won her second Seoul City Open
World Junior Squash major junior and also retained her World
Championship held in Games women’s singles titles.
Antwerp, Belgium and tournaments including
became the youngest the British Junior Open -World’s number one in the
female world junior (Under-17 Champion), Women’s World Rankings.
champion at the age of
the German Junior
15. Open (Under-19

Champion and the
Asian Junior Champion.

2010 2000 2005

-Earned her sixth title in Kuala Joined the Women’s -Became the first
Lumpur Open tournaments. International Squash Malaysian to win a first
Players Association
-Won the women’s singles final British Open title.
of the 2010 Commonwealth (WISPA) title.
Games, held in Delhi. -Won the individual
-Successfully defended event in the Asian
the World Junior
Junior Squash
Squash Championships Championships.
title.

2006 2008 2011-2014

-Successfully defended -Won ten tour titles -Won numerous
her World Open title and retained her world championships including
number one position in Hong Kong Open, US Open,
defeating Natalie Grinham British Open and the World
in the final. the December
Women’s World Open.
-Called as one of the great Squash Rankings.
finals of the Women’s
World Open.

-December 2006, voted
best female player of the
year consecutively for the

second time.

In January 2006, Nicol
David became the first
Malaysian and the first

Asian woman to be
ranked World number
one in squash. In 2008,
she accomplished an
incredible feat by not
losing a single match in
the complete calendar

year.

From 2005 to 2010, She has won the World
Nicol David received Open Championship

the title of WISPA consecutively five times
Player of the Year, six from 2008 –2012 and
the Asian Squash for a
times in a row
record eight times
ACHIEVEMENTS between 1998 and

2011.

She was honored with She received the Order
the Darjah Setia of Merit (Darjah Bakti)
Pangkuan Negeri or D.B., becoming the

Award (DSPN), which first recipient of the
carries the title ‘Datuk’. award since its
She was recognized as
establishment in June
the youngest person 1975.
ever to be conferred
Datukship in Penang.

“ It has always been about the
challenge. It determines you ”