Nicol David, who has topped the women's world rankings unopposed since August 2006, won her first Asian Games gold medal in Thailand in 1998 - aged just 15 - then triumphed again in 2006 in Qatar and 2010 in China.
In her fifth successive final, but the first all-Malaysian, the 31-year-old from Penang recovered from a game behind to beat fellow Penangite Low Wee Wern, the No2 seed, 9-11, 11-6, 11-5, 12-10 in 60 minutes.
"They are all very different," David (pictured above, second left, at the medal ceremony) told Reuters of her Asian Games gold medal haul. "Every medal had a different significance to it."
