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| Country |  Malaysia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Powerlifting | |||||||||||||||||||
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Siow Lee Chan is a former Malaysian Paralympic powerlifting. She won bronze at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. [1] She is also the first Malaysian female paralympian to ever win a medal at the Paralympics. [2]
Jessica Galli is a female wheelchair racing athlete. Raised in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, Galli has participated in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Paralympic Games. At the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games she won the silver medal in the 800 meter T53 female wheelchair race. Galli set a world record holder in the T53 400 m race with a time of 55.82 at the 2007 European Wheelchair Championships on June 7 in Pratteln, Switzerland.
Eleanor May Simmonds, OBE is a British former Paralympian swimmer who competed in S6 events. She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Great Britain. She was the youngest member of the team, at the age of 13. In 2012, she was again selected for the Great Britain squad, this time swimming at a home games in London. She won another two golds in London, including setting a World Record in the 400m freestyle, and a further gold medal at the Rio Paralympics in 2016, this time setting a world record for the 200m medley.
Trischa Zorn is an American Paralympic swimmer. Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming. She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals, and was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2012. She took the Paralympic Oath for athletes at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.
Dame Sophie Frances Pascoe is a New Zealand para-swimmer. She has represented New Zealand at four Summer Paralympic Games from 2008, winning a total of eleven gold medals, seven silver medals and one bronze medal, making her New Zealand's most successful Paralympian. She has also represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games.
Laurentia Tan Yen Yi BBM PBM, is a Singaporean para-equestrian competitor. Tan developed cerebral palsy and profound deafness after birth, and moved to the United Kingdom with her parents at the age of three. She took up horse riding aged five years as a form of physiotherapy. She subsequently completed her A-levels at the Mary Hare Grammar School, a residential special school for the deaf, and graduated with an honours degree from Oxford Brookes University in hospitality management and tourism.
The 2009 ASEAN Para Games, officially known as the 5th ASEAN Para Games, was a Southeast Asian disabled multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 15 to 19 August 2009. This was the second time Malaysia hosted the ASEAN Para Games and its first time since 2001.
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.
Eucharia Njideka Iyiazi is a Paralympian athlete from Nigeria competing mainly in category F57/58 shot put and discus throw events. She has competed at four paralympics taking two gold, a silver and two bronze medals.
Marianne Buggenhagen is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in throwing events.
Eva Berná is a Paralympian athlete from the Czech Republic competing mainly in category F37 shot put events.
Ewa Zielińska is a Paralympian athlete from Poland competing mainly in category F42 long jump and T42 sprint events.
Wang Juan is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T44 sprinter events.
Rebecca Julian is an Australian table tennis player. She has represented Australia at three Summer Paralympics - 2008, 2012 and 2020 in women's doubles and singles table tennis.
Muhammad Ziyad bin Zolkefli, is a Paralympic athlete from Malaysia who competes in T20 classification shot put events. He is the current world record holder in his event. Zolkefli represented Malaysia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where he won the bronze medal in the shot put. As well as Paralympic success, Muhammad Ziyad has won both the World Championship and Asian Para Games titles in his sport, in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Rebecca Dubber is a New Zealand retired para-swimmer. She represented New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2016 Games, she won the bronze medal in the women's 100 m backstroke S7.
Patience Aghimile Igbiti is a Nigerian Paralympian coach and former athlete. In 2008, she won the bronze medal in the women's 60 kg powerlifting category at Beijing 2008. After her retirement, she became a Paralympic coach and was part of Team Nigeria's coaching crew for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Siti Noor Radiah binti Ismail is a Malaysian Paralympian who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Mohamad Khasseri bin Othman is a former Malaysian Paralympian who won a bronze medal at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona.
Mariappan Perumal is a former Malaysian Paralympic weightlifter. He won bronze at the 1988 Summer Paralympics and 1992 Summer Paralympics. He also won Malaysia's first Paralympic medal.
Valeree Siow Zi Xuan is a Malaysian badminton player who specialises in the women's doubles and mixed doubles events.
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