Extreme weather kills 21 elite runners in China ultramarathon
>> May 23, 2021
Queenie Ting sets 48.56m to break discus throw national record
>> April 11, 2021
The 23-year-old eclipsed the previous national record of 47.91m set in the 2017 SEA Games by her training partner, Connie Choo.
Both are currently under the guidance of coach Mohamad Ali Hamid.
As the competition progresses, Queenie fouled again, but improved on her mark to 45.45m in her 5th attempt, before setting the record in the 6th or last attempt.
Jonah Chang Rigan sets national U20 record in shot put |
Young sprinter Arsyad Md Saad takes 100m victory at Malaysian Grand Prix 2021
>> April 10, 2021
The 19-year-old Arsyad, despite running into a slight breeze, set his personal best of 10.64 to win the century dash ahead of national sprinter Jonathan Nyepa (10.70) and sprint sensation Azeem Fahmi (10.85).
He is coached by Poad Kassim who trained the 100m's SEA Games gold medalists (Khairul Hafiz Jantan and Haiqal Hanafi) in SSTMI (sports school).
Azeem won the heats (10.67, +1.3) over Jonathan (10.70) who stumbled at the start. Arsyad ran 10.76 (+0.4) to win the second heat.
Azreen Nabila, 20, even though she seemed to have muscle cramp towards the end, completed her race in 12.00s just ahead of experienced sprinters Komalam Shally (12.01) and Siti Fatimah Mohamad (12.12).
Meanwhile, Kirthana Ramasamy won the women's triple jump in 13.21m, ahead of her teammate Nurul Ashikin Abbas who achieved 13.00m, her first 13m jump legally.
Iskandar Alwi won the men's pole vault in 4.85m; he was unable to clear a 5.00m height.
In hammer throws, Grace Wong broke her own national record with a distance of 62.48m, while Jackie Wong threw 66.47m to win the men's event. Read here for more details.
MEN
100m Final (w?)
WOMEN
Grace Wong breaks her own national record with 62.48m hammer throw at 2021 GP Malaysia Open
The 21-year-old former SEA Games gold medalist opened her competition with a >60m-throw (60.19m), down to 59.52m in her second throw, and followed by the national record effort.
She then fouled in her fourth attempt; but the next two rounds was over-60m throw again (61.13m and 60.55m), showing a good consistency of her throws.
Such feats indicate that she still has more to show in the coming periods.
The next local competition for Grace and other national athletes will be in June when the national athletics championships will be held.
Grace's throw at the Malaysian Grand Prix today is also 1 cm less than the Southeast Asian record with the best being 62.49m by Thailand's Mingkamon Koomphon.
Nurul Hidayah Lukman was in second place in 49.98m. Winnie Eng May Xin "ensured the minimum number participants" for a competition and was third with 17.95m.
Meanwhile, Jackie Wong Siew Cheer won the men's hammer throw event with a distance of 66.47m. Jackie's best throw and national records stand at 68.22m. His training partner Sadat Marzuki Ajisan registered 59.94m in second place.
Their teammates Farm Loong Deng (19.53m) and Kamal Farhan Abdul Rahman (16.03m) took part and registered their first (and best) throws in the hammer throw competition.
Nauraj Singh clears 2.20m to break high jump indoor record
>> January 31, 2021
Three-time SEA Games gold medalist Nauraj Singh Randhawa smashed his national indoor record during an indoor track meeting at Vienna, Austria (30 Jan 2021).
He cleared a height of 2.20m in his third attempt to finish in second place behind German Tobias Potye, a world cup bronze medalist who registered 2.26m.
Nauraj, who turned 29 three days earlier improved his two-year old record by 1 cm, which he set in Chemnitz, Germany in 2019.
Like other athletes, he was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and has not competed since the SOPAC meeting in Sydney in February last year, where he jumped 2.20m, the same height he achieved yesterday.
He holds the current national outdoor record of 2.30m from 2016.
Progression of Malaysian indoor record.
• 2.15 ..... Lee Hup Wei ... Ostrava ... 2012
• 2.15 ..... Lee Hup We ... Vienna ... 2012
• 2.19 ..... Nauraj Singh Randhawa ... Chimnetz ... 2019
• 2.21 ..... Nauraj Singh Randhawa ... Vienna ... 2021
Effects of Home Confinement on Training Habits and Injury in Long Distance Runners
>> December 18, 2020
Athletes who are typically active and 'busy' (training and competition) were suddenly required to stay at home.
The influences of such restrictions in training habits and injury in youth long-distance runners were unknown.
A recent study by Bazett-Jones and colleagues (link below) found that COVID-19 social distancing restrictions significantly impacted youth long-distance runners' training habits, injuries, and care seeking behaviors.
Specifically, during the confinement period, youth long-distance runners decreased their training activities (as follows), possibly due to extrinsic factors such as motivation.
- Weekly running distance
- Number of weekly runs
- Number of weekly hard runs
Read more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739837/
Read more...Grace Wong threw 61.62 in hammer, Luqman Hakim leapt 7.85 long jump
>> December 12, 2020
The multi-sports event was participated mostly by athletes living and training within the NSC training ground, with additional invitations for selected athletes.
This event was conducted to provide the national athletes of various sports, a means to experience "real competition situation" after (mostly) not having the chance to compete for a long time because of the COVID-19 pandemic, under a "real competition situation" (i.e. competition simulation).
However, as informed to all athletes and coaches, none of the performances achieved in the "simulation meet" could be considered as official competition performance.
Day 2 competition will be held tomorrow. Selected results are as follows:
100m
- Jonathan Nyepa 10.60
- Muhammad Haiqal Hanafi 10.65
- Muhammad Azeem Mohd Fahmi 10.94
400m
Race A
- Luqmanul Hakim Khairul Akmal 48.71
- Abdul Wafiy Roslan 49.32
- Muhammad Aftar Rosli 50.76
- Mohd Nasharuddin Mohammad 51.09
Race B
- Rusleem ZikryPutra 48.83
- Muhammad Saiful Safwan Saifuddin 49.78
- Muhammad Zulfiqar Ismil 52.82
Long Jump
- Luqman Hakim Ramlan 7.85
- Andre Anura 7.68
- Mohd Latiff Romly 7.50
- M Nasir Mustafa 7.43
- Saifuddin Ishak 6.58
Hammer Throw
- Jackie Wong Siew Cheer 65.68
- Sadat Marzuki Ajisan 56.87
WOMEN
- (4th) Azreen Nabila Alias 12.24
200m (+0.4)
- Azreen Nabila Alias 26.02
- Winnie Eng May Xin 26.65
- Siti Noor AAishah Mohamad 27.35
Long Jump
- Kirthana Ramasamy 5.92
- Nurul Ashikin Abas 5.85
Shot Put
- Norliyana Kamaruddin 10.90
- Nur Siti Balqis Mokhtaruddin 10.65
- Winnie Eng May Xin 9.96
Hammer Throw
- Grace Wong Xiu Mei 62.61 - No National Record
- Nurul Hidayah Lukman 53.49
- Ziyad Zolkefli 16.67
- Far Loong Deng 16.39
- Kamal Farhan Raihan 15.10
- Abdul Rahman Lee 47.95
- Ngu Jia Xin 1.71
- Yap Sean Yee 1.68
- Norliyana Kamaruddin 1.68
- Quenie Ting kung Ni 46.72
- Connie Choo Kang Ni 46.13
- Kirthana Ramasamy 13.06
- Nurul Ashikin Abas 13.02