At the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Abdul Latif succeeded in winning the gold medal and simultaneously creating a new championship record in the T20 (learning problem/intellectual disability) long jump by recording 7.35 metres.
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Ridzuan, who won gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar previous year, was quick off the blocks to win the blue riband event in a new Games record of 12.07. He went past the previous mark of 16.29m set by Australia’s Todd Hodgetts, who also won a bronze (15.82m) in Saturday’s event, at the 2012 London Paralympics.
According to Bernama news agency, Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi won the first gold for Malaysia in the 100m T36 (celebral palsy) event, while the second gold came from Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli with a new world record in the men’s shot put F20 (intellectual disability) event.
The Ukrainian, a bronze medallist in London four years ago, was disqualified for a false start in the final.
In the race at the Olympic Stadium, Mohamad Ridzuan clocked 12.07 seconds, erasing the earlier record of 12.25 seconds set by Roman Pavlyk of Ukraine at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
Tears of joy: Ridzuan hugging bronze medal victor Rodrigo Parreira da Silva of Brazil after the event.
But while he dropped the ball in his fourth attempt, Latif bounced back to pull off an incredible distance of 7.60m with his fifth attempt, shattering the world record for the third time in Rio de Janeiro! Dimitrios Senidikidios of Greece clinched the bronze with a throw of 16.17m.
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Croatian Zoran Talic and Ukraine’s Dmytro Prudnikov finished a distant second and third on 7.12m and 6.99m respectively.
