Age is no barrier to winning gold


Brief caption. . .interview weightlifter Ng Chow Seng.Star pic by Asri Abdul Ghani/October 04, 2015

I REFER to the news report “82-year old weightlifter strikes gold again” (The Star, May 12).

It is just incredible and unbelievable that Ng Chow Seng, 82, again was able to win gold (his sixth time) in the 80-84 category after lifting 42kg in the snatch and 52kg in the clean and jerk at the Auckland World Masters Games recently – no octogenarian in Malaysia has ever achieved this feat before to my knowledge.

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