KUALA LUMPUR, SEP 11: Malaysia has created history by winning two gold medals at the Rio Paralympics in Brazil. And what’s even sweeter is that one of the medals comes with a new world record.
The first gold medal was won by Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi on Saturday in Rio de Janerio (Sunday Malaysian time) in the T36 100m (celebral palsy) and not long after that, the second gold was won by Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli with a new world record in the F20 shot putt (intellectual disability).
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Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi[/caption]
Malaysia has won medals in previous Paralympics but only silver and bronze.
At the Rio Olympic Stadium, Mohamad Ridzuan dashed across the finish line of the 100m T36 in 12.07 seconds, ahead of Yang Yifei of China (12.20s) and Rodrigo Parreira da Silva of Brazil (12.54s). Muhammad Ziyad hurled the shot a distance of 16.84 metres to clinch the world record and the gold on his fifth attempt.
He erased the previous world record of 16.29m set by Todd Hodgetts of Australia at the London Paralympics in 2012. Dimitrios Senikidis of Greece won the silver medal in Rio with a throw of 16.17m and Hodgetts took the bronze medal with a throw of 15.82m. – BERNAMA
