Showing posts with label Olympic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympic. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Pandelela Rinong (Diver)






About

Pandalela was qualified as the first Malaysian athlete for the upcoming 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil due to her outstanding performance to finish on the podium in an individual event in the World Aquatics Championships as she manage to grab a bronze medal in the women’s 10m platform individual discipline that was held in Kazan, Russia. Yet, even with her growing popularity as the poster child of Malaysian sports, Pandelela Rinong has managed to keep her feet firmly planted on the ground. Her success in sports of diving will inspire many future Malaysian generation out there.

Early Life

Born in March 2, 1993 in Kampung Jugan, Gau, Sarawak is the Malaysia female divers. Her brother also involving in diving also. She was trained at Bukit Jalil Sports School and was a state diver by age seven. Her talent been observed and later she was recruited by a coaches a year later to pursue diving more seriously.

Later on, Pandelela manage to join a spot of national team when her technique for diving is very skillful that caught the eye of sports scouts after winning a host competition for her home state of Sarawak. It was a huge honor for a 14 year old girl to enter the national team. However, it was a bittersweat moment for Pandelela as she need to be away from her family. Pandelela determination was strong a she put many hours of practice in the pool to perfect her technique. Most kid in that age probaly will never had that kind of spirit like Pandelela have.

Achievement


FINA Diving World Cup in Beijing February 2008 is Pandelela first international event where she finished in the sixth place in the 10-meter platform event. Due to that she manage to earn her a place in the 2008 summer Olympic. Pandelela diving career keep getting better when she had partnered with a ten-year veteran Leong Mun Yee at the world championship in Rome 2009. They manage to bring bronze medal in the 10-meter platform (synchronized) event. A year later, in August at the Youth Olympic in Singapore she had won two silver medals in the 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platforms events.
Two months later, at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Pandelela won the gold medal in the 10-meter platform competition, edging out leading Australian diver Melissa Wu. Her achievement was the first time a Malaysian athlete won a gold medal in diving. Meanwhile, in World Aquatic Championship in Shanghai 2012, she finished fourth place in 10-meter platform event. Pandelela even beat the number one squash player Datuk Nicole Ann David when she received Country’s sportswoman award in April.

Dato' Lee Chong Wei (Badminton)




Datuk Lee Chong Wei


About


He is the number one Malaysia’s badminton player and most famous athletes. Datuk Lee Chong Wei known for his friendly attitude and been describes as the national hero due to his several achievement in badminton arena and was given the titles of ‘Datuk’ by Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. He is very competitive in every game he play. He even manage to defeat Worlds badminton champions, Lin Dan from China. Datuk’ Lee Chong Wei Continues to act as a source of inspiration for new future Malaysian athletes wanting to make a name on the world stage. 

Early Life


Lee Chong Wei was born in Bangan Serai, Perak in October 21, 1986. In primary school he went to Jit Sin Primary School and continue his study at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sungai Way. First sport that he interested in is actually basketball. However, when he was only at the age of 11 years old, Datuk Lee Chong Wei started to get his interest in playing badminton when he follow his father to the badminton court. Starting from there, local coach started to notice Datuk Lee Chong Wei ability in playing badminton and took him to be trained after the local coach ask for his father permission beforehand. After he got the permission, he started to train Lee Chong Wei after the school time. Datuk Lee Chong Wei start his badminton training skill school.



Later then when Datuk Lee Chong Wei 17 years old, he met Misbun Sidek as his Mentor and joined the national team. During his debuted in the national team, he manage to grab two victory in Malaysia Open and China Taipe Open. It was a good starter for him. 



Achievement


Throughout the time Datuk Lee Chong Wei manage to attain many achievement and award. Here are some of the achievement and award that Datuk Lee Chong Wei had accomplished so far.

In 2005, Datuk Lee Chong Wei manage to beat his rival, Lin Dan in 2005 Malaysia Open final. He won the season-ending Badminton World Federation (BWF) Super Series Masters Finals men's singles title four times (2008-2010, 2013), and the prestigious All England Open three times (2010, 2011, 2014). Lee has topped the badminton world rankings for almost 300 weeks, and is a four-time winner of the BWF Player of the Year award (2009-2011, 2013).He is also Malaysia's most successful athlete at the Olympics, with two silver medals in the men's singles event (2008, 2012). In 2010, Datuk Lee Chong Wei had won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games and silver medal in Asia Games. Later that year, he grab his victory for the third time in a row in All England Open 2011. He beat the record of maximum number of home titles held by Wong Peng Soon when won the ninth Malaysian Open title in 2013. Meanwhile in 2015, Datuk Lee Chong Wei won the US, Canada and French Open.