Myanmar expects to get medal in Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games
8/9/2008 18:01
Myanmar Disabled Sports Federation (MDSF) has expected to get medal in the
ongoing Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, local weekly Myanmar Times reported
today.
The disabled athletes who were taking part in the Paralympics have
been in training since June and the MDSF is hopeful they will be able to bring
back a medal, said the weekly quoting vice president of the MDSF.
Myanmar
para sports contingent, which failed to attend the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games
four years ago, comprised of president of the MDSF, three coaches and three male
athletes.
They will compete in two sports of track and field and swimming in
the Beijing Games scheduled on Sept. 6-17, participated by a record 4,000-plus
athletes from 147 countries and regions, 10 times the figure at the Games' debut
in Rome 1960.
Win Naing will compete in javelin event, Win Sann Aung in
100-meter breaststroke and Naing Sit Aung in 100-meter backstroke and 50-meter
butterfly events.
Naing Sit Aung and Win Naing grabbed three gold medals each
for the country in the last 4th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Para Games in Thailand in January this year, participated by 11 countries. Naing
Sit Aung won in men's 200-meter freestyle, men's 50- and 100-meters backstroke
in the swimming event, and Win Naing in the men's shot put, discus and javelin
in the track and field event.
The 34-athlete Myanmar para sports delegation
competed in three sport events -- track and field, swimming and table tennis --
in the 4th ASEAN Para Games, pocketed 12 golds, 11 silvers and 12 bronzes,
ranking sixth behind Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines
among 10 ASEAN countries and Timor Leste.
Myanmar got seven golds, eight
silvers and bronzes each in track and field, five golds, three silvers and
bronzes each in swimming and one bronze in table tennis events.
Meanwhile,
six Myanmar athletes took part in five sports of track and field, swimming,
archery, rowing and canoeing/kayak in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing,
China, last month.
Xinhua
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