Ken Nee, Bryan Team Up To Deliver Bronze

Malaysian divers Bryan Nickson Lomas (left) and Yeoh Ken Nee showing off the bronze medal they won in the men’s 3m springboard synchronised final in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi Tuesday. Theirs was the only medal of the day for Malaysia.

A FOUR-year wait ended for diver Yeoh Ken Nee, who finally earned the medal he missed out on in the men’s 3m springboard synchronised competition at Dr S.P. Mukherjee Stadium last night.
Ken Nee’s one-year-old partnership with Bryan Nickson Lomas paid dividends as the pair bagged the bronze with a score of 404.64.

Luck was also on the Malaysian’s side as Australians Scott Robertson-Grant Nel fumbled in the fourth dive to let the bronze slip away.

Canadians Alexandre Despatie-Reuben Ross took gold on 430.35 ahead of another Australian pair, Matthew Mitcham-Warren Ethan, who chalked up a 424.35.
Ken Nee admitted they were a bit lucky to bag the bronze, which was the only medal for Malaysia on the 10th day of the elhi Games.

“Robertson’s leg hit the board in the fourth dive and our coach just asked us to be clam and execute our last dive like what we have always done in training,” he said.

“We pulled it off well and we managed to hang on to the bronze medal position.”

Ken Nee was the silver medallist in the 1m springboard at the 2006 Melbourne Games. But his outing at the Games them turned out to be bittersweet as a fever put paid to his chances of adding more medals to his collection.

Ken Nee had to pull out of the 3m springboard final the following night when he was in the lead after the second dive.

And he was also forced to withdraw from the 3m springboard synchronised competition, in which he was to partner Rossharisham Roslan then.

It was redemption time for Ken Nee and he was glad to end his Commonwealth Games on a high note after missing out on medals in the individual 1m and 3m springboard events earlier.

“I was aiming for a medal but was not so confident as the Australians and Canadians were much better here. It’s good I also have a medal to show,” he said.

The young Malaysian pair of Mohd Rashid-Ooi Tze Liang found the going too tough in the men’s 10m platform synchronised competition. Only four pairs took part and Rashid-Tze Liang finished last on 372.30.

Leong Mun Yee finished seventh in the women’s 1m springboard final on 262.10.
The second Malaysian finalist, Cheong Jun Hoong, was placed 10th on 235.80.