KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian athletes continued to rack up the medals across various sports at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games today.
Cheah Liek Hou-Faris Azri delivered Malaysia's first badminton gold of the Games by winning the SU5 men's doubles title.
The duo defeated South Korea's Jeon Sun Woo-Kim Ge Yeon 21-8, 21-13 in their final group match at the Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium.
The event was played in a four-pair league format. Liek Hou-Faris were undefeated in the competition.
After Latif Romly successfully retained his men's long jump T20 gold for a fourth edition in a row yesterday, Noorhelmie Mohd Rabi continued Malaysia's momentum in athletics by winning bronze in the men's 100m T12.
Noorhelmie clocked 11.16 seconds in the final at the Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium.
Ryutaro Kuno (10.85s) and Daiki Ishiyama (10.92s) notched a 1-2 finish for Japan.
The men's 400m T36 final witnessed Ahmad Fizzi Rosni clinching the bronze on 56.68s.
Uzbekistan's Doston Kahhorov (54.52s) and Japan's Takeru Matsumoto (56.12s) took gold and silver respectively.
In boccia, Angeline Melissa Lawas defended her silver in the women's individual BC1 event. She was edged 5-4 by Indonesia's Handayani in the final at the Nagoya City General Gymnasium.
Angeline had earlier today booked her spot in the gold medal match by beating Singapore's Jeralyn Tan 8-0 in the semi-finals.
Noor Askuzaimey Mat Salim took bronze in the women's individual BC4 event after edging China's Lin Xinmei 6-5 in the third-place playoff.
Avrinda Anis, however, missed out on the podium after going down 5-4 to South Korea's Choi Ahyoung in their women's individual BC2 bronze medal match.
In swimming, Lim Carmen did well to win bronze in the women's 50m freestyle S8 after clocking 35.51s in the final at the Nagoya City General Gymnasium pool.
Japan's Mai Mizukami (35.49s) narrowly pipped Carmen to the silver. China's Zhu Hui (31.40s) claimed the gold.
National riders, who clinched one gold, two silver and two bronze during the track events, made a quiet start to the road events today.
Khairul Hazwan Wahab-Nabil Wafiq Zamri (pilot) and Nur Azlia Syafinas Zais-Nurul Suhada Zainal (pilot) both finished seventh in the men's and women's (B) individual time trial respectively, while Yusof Hafizi Shaharuddin was sixth in the men's C1-5 individual time trial.
As of the time of writing, Malaysian athletes have secured four gold, four silver and seven bronze medals in Nagoya.
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