To celebrate the success of the four Malaysian Paralympics athletes who won gold and bronze models at Rio, Naza Corporation Holdings yesterday rewarded them with prizes amounting to RM1.5 million.
Gold medal winners Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi (men’s 100 metres dash T36) Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli (men’s shot put F20) and Abdul Latif Romly (men’s long jump T20) each received a unit of residential suite at Trion 888, Equine Park, as well as the keys to a brand-new Kia Sportage. As for bronze medallist Siti Noor Radiah Ismail (women’s long jump T20), she took home a new Kia Rio Sedan.
Ridzuan’s time of 12.07 seconds in the men’s 100 metres dash broke the Paralympic record of 12.25 seconds held by Ukraine’s Roman Pavlyk since 2008 in Beijing. Meanwhile, Ziyad’s performance in the shot put event saw him smash the world record of 16.59 metres held by Australian Todd Hodgetts since 2007, when he hurled a distance of 16.84 metres.
In the men’s long jump event, Latif jumped to a record 7.47 metres to break the previous world mark of 7.37m set by Jose Exposito of Spain in 2003. It didn’t take long for him to break his own short-lived world mark with a 7.54-metre leap, and he followed it up by beating his record again with a 7.60-metre long jump.
“For their exceptional and record-breaking performance at the Rio Paralympics Games 2016, these champions deserve to be recognised and rewarded. The residential suite at Trion 888, Equine Park is worth RM350,000 and the all-new Kia Sportage is worth RM121,888. The all-new Kia Rio Sedan is worth RM72,888. That works up to a grand total of almost RM1.5 million,” said SM Nasarudin SM Nasimuddin, chairman and CEO of Naza Corporation Holdings.
“We are also rewarding a token to each of the three Paralympic coaches, Jaganathan Ramasamy, Mohd Faizol Bin Harun and Mohd Syahrul Amri Bin Mohd Suhaimi for their dedication towards training these athletes into champions,” he added.
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The gesture to award Naza TTDI homes is actually more surprising, but it is a much better offering than the cars. Many thanks to Naza and SM. Anyways I’ve used to volunteer alot for our paralympians since CG 1998, and my heart always goes to them. Great job!
Malaysia football berapa ranking?
MY squash berapa ranking?
Appreciate your effort in helping them Mr. Lee Kum Kee..
We need more people like you in Malaysia.
Oh My! Why KIA? KIA is bad RV in Malaysia.. Poor paralympian! It should be a Toyota!
The able-body are “running” the country to the ground…( you know who) … whilst this bunch of true champions are bringing glory to Malaysia . God bless the Paralympians
The able bodied athletes r running the country to the ground? How can that be?
I agree with John on this. It is good to motivate or encourage our athletes be it able or otherwise. In fact, we should motivate/support all athletes or sportsman(Malay/Chinese/Indian/lain-lain) to perform at the highest level.
It is NOT good to belittle anyone otherwise you will be call a sour-grapes who take this opportunity to bash our able sportsman.
Yup. While they might not win gold (ie LCW), their able bodied couterparts have performed what many of us “normals” cud not achieve. So dissing them for “failing” to get gold is a shame.
Proud of our Paralympiams.
Tahniah Wira Negara! Majulah Sukan Untuk Negara
the Paralympians recieved world class great cars eg the Sportage and Rio from Kia… while your Badminton champions got POS junk Proton… tsk tsk tak…
keyword; Naza Corporation boss Nasarudin Nasimuddin, who is president of the Paralympics Council of Malaysia
Meanwhile toyota is dumping their unsold junks into the sea cuz nobody wants their junks when they offered to our heroes.
I have the same thought and feeling like you.
If Lin Dan is the No One badminton player in history, then Lee Chong Wei is No Two, provided nobody else goes beyond their achievements in future. I think after 50 years probably many badminton enthusiasts will still know LCW name.
Three pingat perak Olympic, berturut-turut, don’t you think is an enourmous achievement, especially in badminton single, which requires a lot of youth/energy/power/endurance? How many one-time gold medalists in the past have better achievements compared to Lee Chong Wei?
Thank Q NAZA for doing your Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR). The Paralympics deserved whatever given to them.
Betul ke Malaysia menang emas paralimpik sebab KJ tak pergi rio untuk paralimpik?
Entah. Tapi olimpik-olimpik sebelum ni KJ tak pergi, pun tak dapat emas jugak! So ada kaitan ke?