{"id":11214,"date":"2021-08-31T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2021-08-31T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:15:29","slug":"ziyad-disqualified-after-clinching-paralympic-shot-put-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11214","title":{"rendered":"Ziyad disqualified AFTER clinching Paralympic shot put gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, August 31<strong> \u2013\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>National para shot put champion, Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli, who broke\u00a0the world record twice in his shot put F20 (learning disabilities) event at the Tokyo Paralympic Games today\u00a0has reportedly been disqualified by the Tokyo Paralympic\u00a0authorities\u00a0on\u00a0technical issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Paralympian\u00a0notched 17.31m in his first throw, 17.94m in his third, 17.62m in his fourth, and 16.31m in his fifth throw, the gold medal has been awarded to a runner-up, Ukraine&#8217;s Maksym Koval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old Malaysian\u00a0para-athlete\u00a0defended his 2016 Rio\u00a0victory\u00a0with a new world and Paralympic record with a throw of 16.84m to clinch the gold medal, erasing the record of Australian athlete\u00a0Todd Hodgetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ziyad_Zolkefli_para_shot_put.jpg\" alt=\"Ziyad\" class=\"wp-image-11215\" width=\"531\" height=\"442\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is understood that the Ukrainian team had protested the fact that\u00a0Ziyad was late to enter the call room. His disqualification is currently being appealed by the Malaysian contingent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ziyad is not alone in Malaysia&#8217;s para-athletics campaign in Tokyo as he is joined by two Rio 2016 gold medallists, Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi\u00a0in the 100m T36 (cerebral palsy) and Abdul Latif Romly in the long jump T20 (learning disabilities) events, along with\u00a0fellow Paralympians,\u00a0Siti Nooriasah Mohamad Ariffin in the 400m women\u2019s F20 (learning disabilities) and Wong Kar Gee in the long jump T13 (visual impairment) events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia has altogether\u00a022 para-athletes competing in nine types of sports at\u00a0the Tokyo Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\">NMT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, August 31 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0National para shot put champion, Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli, who broke\u00a0the world record&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nation","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}