PANDELELA Rinong and Leong Mun Yee have qualified for next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games.
The Malaysians defied the odds and silenced their critics by winning silver in the women’s 10m platform synchro at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju on Sunday.
Pandelela-Mun Yee posted a 312.72 total to finish second behind China’s Lu Wei-Zhang Jiaqi (345.24), while Samantha Bromberg-Katrina Young of the United States won the bronze on a 304.86 total.
The three pairs have made the cut for the Olympics.
It is Pandelela-Mun Yee’s third world meet medal after winning bronze in the 2009 (Rome) and the 2013 (Barcelona) editions. They are the first Malaysian pair to qualify for the Olympics through the world meet.
Many doubted the divers following a change in the coaching setup but they have proven everyone wrong with a medal in the world meet.