Malaysia at the Paralympics

Malaysia at the Paralympics
Malaysia at the Paralympic Games
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Paralympic history
Summer Games
1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Malaysia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, with a delegation of three athletes, all of whom competed in both track and field and weightlifting. The country was then absent for three consecutive editions of the Summer Paralympics, before making its return at the 1988 Games in Seoul. Malaysia has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics.[1]

Malaysians have won a total of five medals at the Paralympic Games: one silver and four bronze. All but one of these medals have been obtained in weightlifting or its successor sport, powerlifting. Powerlifter Siow Lee Chan, in 2008, was both Malaysia's first female Paralympic medallist, and the first Malaysian in sixteen years to have won a Paralympic medal.[2]

List of medallists

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 Bronze Perumal Mariappan 1988 Seoul Weightlifting Men's 57 kg
 Silver Cheok Kon Fatt 1992 Barcelona Weightlifting Men's 52 kg
 Bronze Mohamad Khasseri[3] Othman 1992 Barcelona Athletics Men's High Jump B2
 Bronze Perumal Mariappan 1992 Barcelona Weightlifting Men's 60 kg
 Bronze Siow Lee Chan 2008 Beijing Powerlifting Women's 56 kg

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