Farah Ann Abdul Hadi

Farah Ann Abdul Hadi
Full name	Farah Ann Binti Abdul Hadi
Country represented	Malaysia
Born	(1994-05-03) 3 May 1994 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior
Medal record Women's gymnastics Representing  Malaysia Southeast Asian Games 2015 Singapore Team 2015 Singapore Floor exercise 2011 Palembang Uneven bars 2015 Singapore All-around 2015 Singapore Vault 2015 Singapore Uneven bars 2015 Singapore Balance beam

Farah Ann Binti Abdul Hadi (born May 3, 1994) is a Malaysian artistic gymnast.

Early life

Farah was born in Subang Jaya, Selangor, to Abdul Hadi Ahmad and Canadian-born Kimberly Ann Gagnon on 3 May 1994. She is the second of three children and her sister, Katrina Ann, is a national synchro swimmer.^[1]

Career

She took up gymnastics at age three and started to compete at national level competition Sukma Games. Hadi make her first appearance at the 2010 Games in New Delhi, scored 12.050 points (floor exercise), 10.500 (beam) and 10.250 (uneven bars) as Malaysia finished fourth in the team event. In 2014, Hadi then took up the bronze in floor exercise and team event at Artistic Celtic Cup-Commonwealth Invitational in Perth, Scotland. Later that year, she finished 11th out of 24 gymnast at the women’s individual all-around final at Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland .^[2] After the Commonwealth Games, she competed at the Asian Games in Gwangju, Korea. At qualification stage she was placed sixth in the vault (13.650 points), sixth in the uneven bars (12.800), 12th in the balance beam (12.250) and fourth in the floor exercise (13.050). She made it to the final in the floor exercise, and finished 7th.^[3]

In 2015, she competed at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), competing in all events — bars, beam, vaults, floor exercise, individual and team — in the preliminary round of the competition and made it to the final of all events. She took up her first gold medal in the team's events, followed by a second in the floor exercise. She then gained a silver medal each in both the uneven bars, and individual events. The Malaysian gymnast won bronze medals in the vault, balance beam, as well as the uneven bars event, where another Malaysian gymnast Tan Ing Yueh took the gold.^[4]

Controversy

Following her multiple medals at the SEA Games, Farah Ann was criticised by Malaysian MP Jamil Khir Baharom because the outline of her genitalia ("aurat") was visible through her leotards. He announced a review of “Islamic compliance for clothing used for sports and other fields”.^[5]

References

External links

• Farah Ann ABDUL HADI at the International Federation of Gymnastics (archive)
• Farah Ann ABDUL HADI at the International Federation of Gymnastics – alternate link (archive)
• Farah Ann ABDUL HADI at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
• ABDUL Binti Farah at the 2015 Summer Universiade