Malaysia Boast Their Biggest Ever Diving Team For Olympics

PETALING JAYA: With eight quota spots already in the bag, this will be Malaysia’s biggest diving team for an Olympic Games.

And Malaysia can still fight for three more slots in the ongoing FINA Diving World Cup meet in London.

The young pairing of Abdul Rashid-Pardika Indoma finished 16th in the men’s 10m platform synchro preliminaries with 339.63 points.

But it was expected as the duo lack international exposure and had not even competed together at the SEA Games level.

Cheong Jun Hoong was the latest to make the cut in the women’s 3m springboard individual after reaching the targeted top 18 semi-finals on Thursday.

Wendy Ng Yan Yee did not execute her dives well and finished far behind but she has a another shot at earning a second Olympic slot in the women’s springboard when she takes part in the dive-off tomorrow.

Malaysia have already secured full quota places in the men’s 3m springboard (Yeoh Ken Nee and Bryan Nickson Lomas) and women’s 10m platform (Pandelela Rinong and Traisy Vivien) so far.

Ooi Tze Liang is also bidding for a place in the men’s 10m platform preliminaries to join Bryan as the Malaysian representatives at the Olympics.

Huang Qiang partnered Bryan to make history with a bronze medal in the men’s 3m springboard synchro, becoming the first Malaysian pairing to qualify for an Olympic synchro discipline earlier in the week.

Pandelela Rinong-Leong Mun Yee also earned Malaysia a quota spot for the women’s 10m platform synchro on Wednesday.

China are the only country who have earned the maximum 12 quota spots for diving at the Olympics.