Pandelela-Nur Dhabitah win bronze
Published on: Thursday, July 31, 2014
EDINBURGH: In just three days of training, the diving pair of Pandelela Rinong Pamg and Nur Dhabitah Sabri were able to grab the bronze medal in the women's 10m synchronised platform event at the 20th Commonwealth Games.The duo collected a score of 300.12 points at the competition held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool. "This is most unexpected as we only trained together for three days here.
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I admit the competition here is very stiff with world champions from Canada and England," said Pandelela. According to her, both of them put their full concentration on the jumps and did not keep tab of the score at all. It was after the fourth jump when Pandelela and Nur Dhabitah realised they were trailing the runners-up. "My regular partner in this event is Mun Yee or Jun Hoong as we have been training together for quite some time, so I was quite surprised when my coach told me to partner Dhabitah.
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"We were quite nervous at the beginning of our dives. Competing with world champions like Canada, was a good experience for me with Nur Dhabitah as the new partner," the Olympic bronze medallist said. For Nur Dhabitah who is competing in her first Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal was priceless.
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"I am very happy as I did not expect to win any medals. The win is a big boost to me for the coming events," she said. The gold medal was won by Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion of Canada with 310.65 points and the silver went to Sarah Barrow and Tonia Couch of England with 307.92 points.Meanwhile another Malaysian diving pair, Leong Mun Yee and Cheong Jun Hoong were placed fourth with 298.92 points.Malaysian divers will be in action Wednesday evening in the men's 1m springboard and the women's 3m synchronised springboard events. Meanwhile, women's squash singles champion Datuk Nicol David was beaten for the first time at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Wednesday as she and women's doubles partner Low Wee Wee lost 11-8, 11-5 in 17 minutes to Indian pair Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa.Nicol and Low had won their first match against Megan Craig and Kylie Lindsay of New Zealand on Tuesday but were outplayed by the fourth seeds, although victory on Wednesday evening against Sri Lankans Mihiliya Methsarani and Nadindhi Udangawa in their final pool match will ensure their safe passage into the quarter-finals."The momentum was just on the other side today," said Nicol. "You just know with the doubles is anyone's game but we have to learn from this. We have to be really confident from the start.""The first game we just wanted to go with a solid plan of being aggressive," said Pallikal. "There was no stopping us in the second as we played some good shots."Me and Joshanna have a lot of understanding with each other so that really helps, especially going on court confident."Squash doubles are a rarity especially in Britain with the Commonwealth Games one of the few chances players have of competing.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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