I am very happy today. Finally Negaraku and Jalur Gemilang is heard and flying high in Tokyo, Japan. My congratulations to Bonnie Bunyau Gustin for achieving Malaysia's gold medal in this year's Paralympic and setting a new record. He has made all Malaysians and Sarawakians feeling proud...and a very good Hari Kebangsaan 2021 present for all of us!!
He did it again and as our world class powerlifter, Bonnie had lived up to his top billing in the men's 72kg competition today. The 22-year-old is well known to be the man to beat and he had delivered more than the gold medal but also a new Paralympic record with a new lift of 228kg! The gold medal is also our nation's powerlifting’s best achievement since 2008.
We are indeed proud of Bonnie's achievement because during the competition, he went on to lift 228kg (dead lift) to successfully break the Paralympics record by 1 kg previously held by Rasool Mohsin of Iran. Bonnie had also tried to break his world record of 230kg set just two months ago in Dubai's World Para Powerlifting Championship 2021 but missed out on the 231kg bonus attempt.
Nevertheless, he once again defeated his close rival, China's Hu Peng, who is also ranked second in the world behind Bonnie, & was expected to give the Malaysian team the strongest challenge but it was Egyptian Mahmoud Attiar who bagged the silver instead with 191kg while the bronze went to Micky Yule of Britain finished third with 182kg.
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