SHANGHAI: Malaysia won four gold, eight silver and seven bronze medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games, which was concluded here Thursday.
The gold came from Muhammad Nasrullah Ramdan (male long jump), Mok Kwang Chien (male shot put), Cory Chua Li Eng (female bowling singles) and Vishnu Kumar Alagu (male bocce singles).
Silver medallists were Nasrullah (400m race), the male 4X100m relay team, Nur Zubaina Zubir (female long jump), the female bowling team, Tan Seng Kit (male bowling singles), Jaysaminth Savinder (male bowling singles), Nurul Azirah Gapar (female bocce singles) and the female doubles bocce team.
Mohd Khairil Anuar Azmee (male 100m race) and his mates Nur Zubaina (female 400m race), Tan Siaw Man (female shot put), Chew Choon Yeh (male long jump) and the male bowling and bocce teams added seven bronze medals to the tally.
Held every four years, the Games aims to provide athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
About 10,000 athletes and coaches from 167 countries and regions participated in the event from Oct 2 to 11.
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