Jason Chee

Jason Chee Weng Fai (; born 26 January 1983) is a Singaporean navy regular serviceman and para table tennis player who has won gold medals at multiple editions of the ASEAN Para Games.

Early life and education Chee was born in 1983 in Singapore to parents, Chee Kwok Chor and Chua Ah Lek His father, Chee, of Shanghainese descent, worked as a vegetable seller until his retirement in 2011. His mother, Chua, was a seamstress who died in 2011 due to kidney failure at the age of 65.

While holding the rank of Military Expert-2 and serving as a weapon systems supervisor, Chee had a serious accident on 10 December 2012 on board the RSS Endeavour at Changi Naval Base. Chee was hospitalized until June 2013. He had had phantom limb pain for three or four months, but had dealt with it by not thinking of his missing limbs. Concurrently, Chee was also studying for a degree in mathematics at the Singapore University of Social Sciences; such education was a wish of his late mother. He formerly played table tennis with his left hand, but since his left arm had been amputated, he had to learn to play para table tennis with his right hand.

At the January 2014 ASEAN Para Games, Chee debuted for the Singapore national team by teaming with Darren Chua to win the bronze medal for the men's team Class 3 para table tennis event. At the same Games, Chee also won a silver in the men's individual Class 2 para table tennis event.

In December 2015 at the 2015 ASEAN Para Games, Chee helped Singapore win their first gold medal for para table tennis at the ASEAN Para Games by winning both his singles matches and his doubles match with team-mate Aaron Yeo. As a result, Singapore overcame Thailand 3–1 in the men's team Class 1–2 contest for the gold.

In April 2017, Chee began to lose vision in his right eye due to a tumour. In May 2017, he was diagnosed with choroidal melanoma, a form of eye cancer. It was found that the cancer had not spread beyond his right eye, and that month Chee underwent successful surgery to remove his right eye; he was fully discharged from hospitalization in June 2017. The loss of his right eye affected Chee's depth perception, affecting his playing of para table tennis. At the same Games, Chee also won a bronze in the men's team Class 1–3 para table tennis event (compared to Class 1–2 in the previous Games, Class 1–3 can feature less impaired para-athletes). For his achievements, Chee was chosen as The Straits Times' Athlete of the Year for 2017.

Chee also told of his target to graduate with a degree in mathematics in 2019/20. Hence, Chee gave up the opportunity defending his title in the 2020 ASEAN Para Games.