WATCHING Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim achieved three gold medals feat at the Manchester Commonwealth Games on television eight years ago proved to be quite inspiring to Raihan Yusoff to take exercise.
And on Tuesday night at Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex, Raihan carve her own piece of history by taking a bronze in the women’s 53kg class to become the first Malaysian woman to win weightlifting medal at the Commonwealth.
The 22-year-old Raihan has a total of 175kg to finish behind Canadian Maniou Prevost Dozois (182kg) and Nigerian Onyeka Azike (180kg).
This is the biggest international success to Raihan, who made her debut in the Commonwealth Games and she was happy to have pushed open the boundaries for women’s weightlifting in Malaysia.
Raihan, who hails from Kota Baru, will not be compete in the Guangzhou Asian Games next month but she has in view the Indonesia SEA Games next year where she hopes to reach another high point in the sport.
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