3 GOLD AND 2 SILVER MEDALS: Making Malaysia proud at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

 3 Gold and 2 Silver Medals:  Making Malaysia proud at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

2021  saw the most amount of medals by the Malaysian Paralympians with three golds and two silvers since they first participated in the 1972 Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany.

LONG JUMP

National paralympic long jump athlete Abdul Latif Romly won Malaysia's third and final gold in the T20 long jump with 7.45 meters (m) at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday.

Defending champion Abdul Latif Romly rocked the athletics arena at the Olympic Stadium here today when he bagged his second Paralympic gold medal in the men's long jump T20 (intellectual impairment) category at the Tokyo Paralympics.

Abdul Latif, holds the world record of 7.64m that he set at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia.

The athlete, who hails from Perlis and who also won gold at the 2016 Rio edition, was in a class of his own to confirm Malaysia's third gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics with his very first jump - leaping to a distance of 7.26-metre (m).

BADMINTON

Badminton made its debut at the Tokyo Paralympics. Six-time world champion Cheah Liek Hou grabbed the second gold for Malaysia in the first Paralympic badminton men’s singles.

The 33-year-old was in amazing form when he crushed the favourite Dheva Anrimusthi of Indonesia 21-17, 21-15 in the men’s singles SU5 (physical impairment) final at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan  on Saturday (September 4, 2021)

Besides the world titles and Paralympics gold, 33-year-old Cheah is also a multiple medal winner of the Asian Para Games and Asean Para Games.

POWERLIFTING

The first Gold was won by powerlifter Bonnie Bunyau Gustin. The powerlifting champion pulled off an amazing feat when he won the first gold medal for Malaysia on the fourth day of the Tokyo Paralympic Games,  in the men's 72kg category on August 27, 2021.

What’s more impressive was the Sarawakian also broke the Paralympics record of 227kg set by Rasool Mohsin from Iraq at Rio in 2016.

Malaysia also won silvers through powerlifter Jong Yee Khie in the men's 107kg, and Chew Wei Lun who became the first Malaysian athlete to win a medal in the Boccia (BC1) individual category.

The Malaysian Olympic team consisted 22 athletes competing in the categories of Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Boccia, Cycling, Powerlifting, Swimming, Table Tennis, and Wheelchair Tennis.

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