Dato Pandelela Rinong anak Pamg was born on 2 March 1993 and is a Malaysian diver.
22 Facts About Pandelela Rinong
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Pandelela Rinong has won two Olympic medals and seven World Championships medals.
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Pandelela Rinong won the gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
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Pandelela Rinong was chosen to be the flagbearer of Malaysia at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Pandelela Rinong went on to win the bronze medal in the 10m platform, becoming the first Malaysian female athlete to win an Olympic medal, as well as the first in any sport other than badminton.
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Pandelela Rinong was born in Kupuo Jugan, a Bidayuh village in Bau, Sarawak to Hartini Lamim and Pamg Joheng.
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Pandelela Rinong is of Bidayuh ethnicity, a Bumiputera native to the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
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Pandelela Rinong graduated from University of Malaya in 2018, majoring in Sports Management Science.
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Pandelela Rinong speaks Mandarin; which she learned from attending SJK Stampin - a Chinese national-type primary school, as well as her Bidayuh mother tongue, Malay and English.
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Pandelela Rinong made her international competition debut in 2007 at the Asian Junior Aquatics Championships where she won four gold medals.
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Pandelela Rinong made her Olympic debut at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a 15-year-old.
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Pandelela Rinong went on to win the bronze medal in the 10 m synchronized platform with Leong Mun Yee where it was the first-ever diving medal for Malaysia at the World Championships.
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Pandelela Rinong won two gold medal at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane.
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Pandelela Rinong was the Malaysian national flag bearer the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore where she won the silver medals in the 10 m platform event and 3 m springboard event.
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Pandelela Rinong was Team Malaysia national flag bearer 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, the debut Malaysian Olympic female athlete to be accorded the honour.
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Pandelela Rinong became the first Malaysian female athlete to win an Olympics medal, and the first Malaysian athlete to win an Olympics medal in a sport besides badminton by winning a bronze medal in the 10 m platform at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Pandelela Rinong became Sarawak's first athlete to be accorded with the award.
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Pandelela Rinong bagged a silver in the 10m platform with a score of 368.55 points.
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In July 2015, Pandelela Rinong made history when she became the first Malaysian to finish on the podium in an individual event at the World Aquatics Championships.
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Pandelela Rinong clinched a bronze medal in the individual 10 m platform in Kazan and qualify for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil.
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Pandelela Rinong retained her gold medal in the individual 10m platform event.
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Pandelela Rinong placed fourth in the synchronized 10 m platform together with Leong Mun Yee.