Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli

Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli
nation	Malaysia
birthday	15th March 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Gombak , Malaysia
size	184 cm
Career
discipline	Shot Put (F20)
Best performance	17.29 m
society	Paralympic Club Kuala Lumpur
Trainer	Mohd Faizol
status	active
Medal table
Paralympics 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 1 × Para-Asian Games 2 × 0 × 0 × Southeast Asian Games 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Paralympics bronze London 2012 15.21 m gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 16.84 m World championships gold Lyon 2013 15.23 m bronze Doha 2015 15.37 m gold London 2017 17.23 m silver Dubai 2019 17.03 m Para-Asian Games gold Incheon 2014 Shot Put - F20 gold Jakarta 2018 16.94 m  Southeast Asian Games bronze Kuala Lumpur 2017 17.12 m silver Capas 2019 17.03 m
last change: June 21, 2020

Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli (born March 15, 1990 in Gombak ) is a Malaysian Paralympic athlete who specializes in the shot put. He competes in the F20 class, which is defined by the international Paralympic Committee as intellectual impairment . He became Olympic champion in 2016 and has also held the world record since that year.

Career

In 2012 Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli took part in the Paralympics in London , where he won the bronze medal with a width of 15.21 m behind the Australian Todd Hodgetts and Jeffrey Ige from Sweden. The following year he improved at the World Championships for the disabled in Lyon to 15.23 m and won the gold medal. In 2014 he then won the Para-Asian Games in Incheon and in 2015 he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Doha with 15.37 m behind the Australian Hodgetts and Dimitrios Senikidis from Greece. In 2016 he again took part in the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , where he set a new world record with 16.84 m and thus secured the gold medal. The following year he improved the world record in the course of the World Championships in London to 17.23 m and won his second title. He then started at the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur , where he won the bronze medal behind the Thais Promrob Juntima and Thawat Khachin with 17.12 m .

In 2018 he won again at the Para-Asian Games in Jakarta and in 2019 he won the silver medal behind the Ukrainian Maksym Kowal at the World Championships in Dubai with a stroke of 17.03 m . In December he won the Southeast Asian Games in Capas with 17.03 m, the silver medal behind the Filipino Willie Morrison .

Awards

• Anugerah Sukan Negara (2013)
• Officer of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (2017)

Web links

• Profile at the Paralympic Committee