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.
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