KUALA LUMPUR: National weightlifter Mohamad Aniq Kasdan is the sixth Malaysian to qualify to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after finishing eighth in the men’s 61 kilogramme (kg) event at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup in Phuket, Thailand on Tuesday (March 2).

The 21-year-old managed to lift a total of 290kg, 125kg to place 13th for the snatch and 165kg for the clean and jerk to place sixth.

”Mohamad Aniq is through to the 2024 Olympics even with a less satisfactory performance as he failed to hit the overall lifting total of 300kg,” Malaysian Weightlifting Federation president Datuk Ayub Rahmat told Bernama when contacted on Tuesday.