Pandelela Rinong
Pandelela Rinong anak Pamg, JBK (born 2 March 1993) is a Malaysian diver. She became the first female Malaysian athlete to win a medal at the Olympics, as well as the first to win an Olympic medal in any sport other than Badminton, when she took the bronze in the 10m diving event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[1][2]
Background
Pandelela is 5'3" tall and weighs 109 lbs.[3] She is from Kupuo Jugan, a Bidayuh village in Bau,[4] Sarawak. Pandelela is of Bidayuh ethnicity, a Bumiputera native to the Malaysian state of Sarawak. At the age of seven she was selected as a state diver and continued her training at the Bukit Jalil Sports School in Kuala Lumpur.[5]
Career
At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 10 m Synchronized Platform with Mun Yee Leong[6] and placed 5th in the Women's 10 m platform.[7] She also competed in the Women's 10 m platform at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[8]
She was the flag bearer for the Malaysian contingent at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore where she won the silver medals in the girls' 10m platform event and 3m springboard event.[9]
At New Delhi 2010, she won Malaysia's first Commonwealth Games gold medal in an aquatic sport by winning the women's 10m platform.
She became Malaysia's first female flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics where she competed in the individual 10 m platform and the 10 m platform synchronised event with her partner Leong Mun Yee.[10]
She became the first Malaysian female athlete to win an Olympics medal, and the first Malaysian athlete to win an Olympics medal in a sport besides badminton by winning a bronze medal in the Women's 10 m platform at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[10]
To commemorate her success,she was presented with the Johan Bintang Kenyalang (Companion of the Order of the Star of Hornbill) by the Sarawak State Government,in a special investiture ceremony,held at the Astana shortly after her triumphant return to her homeland.[11]
In July 2015, Rinong made history when she became the first Malaysian to finish on the podium in an individual event in the World Aquatics Championships.[12] She clinches a bronze medal in the women’s 10m platform individual discipline in the event held in Kazan, Russia. With that winning, Pandelela became the first Malaysian athlete[13] to qualify for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil.
Swimwear
Arena
- ARN-9027WH NVY
- ARN-1021W DNM
- FAR-2510W MLT
Personal life
She is an ardent fan of K-pop and Japanese anime.[14]
References
- ↑ Olympics diving: Chen Ruolin wins second gold in 10m platform BBC News, 9 August 2012
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- ↑ Pandelela Rinong Pamg, 2012 Olympics profile, BBC Sport
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External links
| Olympic Games | ||
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| Preceded by | Flagbearer for  MalaysiaLondon 2012 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
- EngvarB from September 2014
- Use dmy dates from September 2014
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1993 births
- Living people
- People from Sarawak
- Female divers
- Malaysian divers
- Malaysian sportswomen
- Malaysian Bidayuh people
- Olympic divers of Malaysia
- Olympic medalists in diving
- Olympic bronze medalists for Malaysia
- Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in diving
- Divers at the 2010 Asian Games
- Divers at the 2014 Asian Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Malaysia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Malaysia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Malaysia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Malaysia
- Divers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Companions of the Order of the Star of Hornbill Sarawak
