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

See also

• Malaysia at the Olympics

References

1. ^ Malaysia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
2. ^ Malaysia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
3. ^ Laman Web Rasmi Majlis Sukan Negara