The Malaysian badminton team ended their campaign in the Commonwealth Youth Championships with a haul of four gold, two silver and one bronze.
Zulfadli defeated India's Sameer Verma 21-16, 17-21, 21-15 in a nail biting final for his second title of the year after his triumph at the Asian Junior Championships in July.
The 18-year-old, sponsored by KLRC, hopes to continue his momentum in upcoming 'Open' tournaments before he leads the boys' squad at the world junior meet, scheduled for Oct 28-Nov 6, in Taiwan.
Malaysia added three more gold medals in the boys' and women's doubles and mixed doubles at the Isle of Man.
Nelson Heg-Teo Ee Yi overcame a tough first game before beating England's Ryan McCarthy-Tom Wolfenden 24-22, 21-16 in the boys' doubles final while Chow Mei Kuan-Lee Meng Yean beat compatriots Sonia Cheah-Yang Li Lian 21-17, 21-8 for the women's doubles title.
Ee Yi and Mei Kuan then teamed up to win the mixed doubles title by edging India's Srikanth Kidambi-Maneesha Kukkpalli 18-21, 21-16, 21-8.
Malaysia failed to earn a clean sweep when Sonia went down 22-20, 21-8 to India's top seed Pusarla Sindhu in the girls' singles final while teammate Li Lian lost 21-16, 22-20 to Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour in the bronze medal match.
National junior coach Yap Kim Hock was delighted with his shuttlers' performance in the competition.
"We were not expecting seven medals from badminton. I hope they will build from their performance here for next month's world junior meet," said Kim Hock.
The Malaysian contingent ended their campaign in the Commonwealth Youth Championships with a haul of four gold, two silver and one bronze.
England were the overall champions with 37-24-16 followed by Australia (29-38-17) and South Africa (8-7-15) from seven sports.
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