New Straits Times Our Olympic Milestones of the Past 65 Years
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New Straits Times Section: Sport Ad Value: RM 22,419 22-Jul-2021 Size : 715cm2 PR Value: RM 67,257 Our Olympic milestones of the past 65 years Malaysia's M. Jegathesan (right) came in third in heat seven of the men's 100m at r"e 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. OUR OLYMPIC MILESTONES OF THE PAST 65 YEARS Malaysian sport has after Dr Jegathesan. shuttler Datuk Lee Chong Wei Wee Kiong (men's doubles), Chan • Malaysia qualified for foot ended the medal drought by win Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying (mixed come a long way ball but did not compete in the ning silver in men,s singles at the doubles) and divers Pandelela- 1980 Moscow Games after joining 2008 Beijing Games. It was the Cheong Jun Hoong (women's since the national a US-led boycott in protest over first of his three Olympic silver 10m synchro) all won silver. Cy contingents first the Soviet invasion o f medals. clist Azizulhasni Awang got a Afghanistan. Malaysia have not • Diver Pandelela Rinong be bronze in keirin, the first time Games appearance qualified for the Olympic football came the first female flag bearer Malaysia won an Olympic medal event since then. for the country at the 2012 Lon in cycling. • The 1988 Seoul Olympics saw don Olympics. She went on to ♦ The 2020 Tokyo Games are N 1956, Malaya competed at badminton and taekwondo intro deliver the nation's first medal postponed to this year due to the the Olympics for the first duced as demonstration sports. from a sport other than bad Covid-19 pandemic and will be time with 33 athletes in Mel Malaysia's M. Vasugi won bronze minton by clinching bronze in held behind closed doors. For the bourne. Among them were though it did not count officially the women's 10m platform indi first time in history, national ath I100m sprinter Annie Choonga,s taekwondo would only be vidual event. Chong Wei won his letes are forced to train in a who became the first woman come a full fledged Olympic sport second Olympic silver in Lon biosecure bubble for rhe Olympian while weightlifter Tan at 2000 Sydney. don. Olympics Kim Bee became the nation's first • Badminton became an offi* • Malaysia achieved their best Prior to the pandemic, the only Olympic flag bearer, cial Olympic sport at the 1992 ever haul at the Olympics to date times the Olympics were affected • The 1964 Tokyo Games saw Barcelona Games, paving the way at the 2016 Rio Games, coming by global crisis were during the nation competing for the first for Malaysia to win their first ever home with four silver and one World War I and II, which caused time as Malaysia, It was our Olympic medal, a bronze, bronze. Shurtlers Chong Wei the cancellation of the 1916,1940 largest contingent to date with 66 through men's doubles Razif and (men's singles), Goh V Shem-Tan and 1944 editions. athletes competing in 10 sports. Jalani Sidek, Among them was track and field • Malaysia, for the first time, great Tan Sri Dr M Jegathesan won two Olympic medals at the who became the first Malaysian 1996 Atlanta Games, again LEADING MALAYSIAN to reach the semi-finals of the through badminton with doubles MEDALLISTS AT OLYMPICS men's 200m sprint, a feat he Cheah Soon Kit-Yap Kim Hock OQ9 would replicate at the 1968 Mex bagging silver) and men's singles ico Games. Rashid Sidek getting bronze. The ATHLETE SPORT "on • The 1972 Munich Games saw Atlanta Games also marked the Lt* Chong W#i Badminton 0 3 0 3 Malaysia making history by qual first time Malaysia competed in Goh V ShenvTan Wee Kiong Badminton 0 1 0 1 ifying for the Olympic football se sailing and canoeing. mi-final. The squad finished ・ The 2004 Athens Games wit Chan Peng SooiHGoh Liu Ying 0 1 0 1 third in their group after going nessed diver Bryan Nickson Lo Cheong Jun HoongRinang Diving 0 1 0 1 down to West Germany 3*0 and mas becoming the youngest Morocco 6-0 while beating the Malaysian to qualify for the ChrahSoon Kil-Yap Kim Hock Badrrrntan 0 1 0 1 United States 3-0. Olympics at age 14. He was also Azizulhasni Awang Cycling 0 D 1 1 • The 1976 Montreal Games the second youngest athlete to Rtnong Diving 0 0 1 1 saw the late Ishtiaq Mubarak en compete in Athens after Vanu tering the history books as the atu sprinter Katura Marae who Rashid Sklek Badminton 0 0 1 1 first Malaysian to reach the semi was a few days younger than Razif Sktek-JahniSMelc Bdtfm Inton 0 G 1 1 finals of the 110m hurdles, and Bryan. only the second Malaysian to • After Malaysia's barren run in Total 0 7 i. 11 reach an Olympic athletics semis the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, .