Forget our lame national football team or our non-existent basketball team (seriously, do we even have a national basketball team?); we now have a sports team we can all throw our support behind.
On Saturday, the Malaysian women’s dodgeball team emerged as champions of the recently-concluded Dodgeball World Championships 2016 held in Melbourne, Australia.
According to The Malay Mail Online, they beat Canada 6-5 in the final to take the gold.
The clearly estatic team took to their Facebook page to celebrate the victory:
“Our girls did it!!!! First GOLD for Malaysia. Against Canada 6-5. We are so proud of you. Malaysia boleh!,” the Malaysia Association of Dodgeball (MAD) wrote on their Facebook page.
And that’s not all; the Malaysian men’s team also managed to bring home a medal.
The men’s team defeated Canada to win the silver medal.
“Thank you Malaysia. Thank you to everyone who supported us. Thank you to the players who showed relentlessness. Thank you Malaysian Association of Dodgeball (Mad) for bringing Malaysian dodgeball to where it is now. Thank you Australian Dodgeball Federation for hosting the most intense tournament yet.
“One Gold and One Silver…next year we’ll bring back double gold. Once again we did our best and we hope we did Our Malaysia Proud,” MAD added.
First hosted by Malaysia in 2012, eight countries took part in this year’s Dodgeball World Championships.
