We take our hats off to Jong Yee Khie who won Malaysia's second medal at the Tokyo Paralympics after the 32-year-odl Sarawakian bagged the silver medal in the men's 107kg category at the Tokyo International Forum venue this morning.
Jong secured his best lift of 237kg in the second attempt which was second behind champion Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar of Mongolia who is also the reigning world champion. Sodnompiljee won the event after having lifted a new Paralympics record of 245kg, erasing the previous mark of 238kg set by Pavlos Mamalos of Greece in the Rio Paralympic in 2016.
But still, Jong's achievement in this year's Paralympic also marked a major milestone from his Games debut 5 years ago where he could only finished 7th position in the 97kg category.
This is another best news we got from the ongoing Tokyo Paralympic after our world class Para powerlifter, Bonnie Bunyau Gustin bagged Malaysia's first medal on 28 August and setting the new Paralympic's record of 228kg in the men's 72kg category.
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