Andre Anura Breaks Long Jump National Record?

Malaysia's SEA Games representative Andre Anura @ Anuar soared to 7.90m in the men's long jump to set a new national record.

Interestingly, it was set in a low-key Sabah's local track meeting, 3rd Berwang Open at Likas Stadium, Kota Kinabalu this morning (2 Nov 2019),

His first attempt jump was good enough to renew the previous record of 7.88m held by his fellow Sabahan Josbert Tinus since the 2007 Thailand Open.

The 20-year-old had a personal record of 7.72m prior to this meeting that he set during the Malaysia Open Grand Prix earlier in March.

This record is pending ratification by the Malaysia Athletics Federation.

If all requirements are met, the record will be ratified. Apart from sanction from the governing body or its affiliates, wind reading is compulsory and must be within the allowed limit of +2.0 m/s, and others.

He was the finalist of this year's Asian Athletics championships at Doha after recording a 7.58m distance during his qualifying round.

His first major meet was the 9th IAAF World Youth Championships in 2015 in Cali, Colombia. He took part in the triple jump during this under 18 age-group competition.

Based on this result, he now ranks second of the Southeast Asian lists behind Indonesia’s Asian Games medalist Sapwaturrahman (7.97m).

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Azeem Fahmi clocks 10.64 in Perak All-Comers 2019

Malaysia’s teen sprinter Muhammad Azeem Fahmi notched his second-fastest time ever in the 100m dash, winning in 10.64 into a slight headwind (-0.5) in Perak All-Comers II at Teluk Intan on Sunday (20 October).

Azeem whose PB is 10.63 in the century dash got off to a good start and finished strongly to produce his third sub-10.70 performance.

The 15-year-old won the under-16 category, breezed unchallenged through to the line with Ahmad Amir Aiman Kamarudin and Luqman Nur Hakim Wahab in second (11.38) and third (11.41) places, respectively.

The senior category was won by national sprinter Mohd Aqil Yasmin who as well recorded 10.64 (-0.3). Behind Aqil were Selangor's Muhammad Aiman Faris Sayuti (11.18) and Sabah's Muhammad Din Norbik (11.22).

Meanwhile,  Irfan Shamsuddin, the winner of the last three SEA Games editions produced the best performance of the two-day meet. He hurdled the discus to a distance of 54.05 - a distance that would defend his SEA Games gold medal.

Azeem became a known sprint figure as he clocked 10.63 and 21.24 in the 100m and 200m, respectively during the April national schools meeting to become one of the World's all-time bests at his age for both events.

He went on to break his 200m record with a time of 21.15 during an invitational meeting in Thailand.

Azeem's all-time best performance in the 100m
10.63 ... Iskandar Puteri ... MSSM / National Schools ... 21 April 2019
10.64 ... Teluk Intan ... Perak All-Comers ... 20 October 2019
10.69 ... Ilagan (PHI) ... SEA Youth ... 2 March 2019
10.70 ... Khon Kaen (THA) ... Sports School Invitational ... 2 August 2019
10.85 ... Ilagan (PHI) ... SEA Youth ... 2 March 2019
10.72 ... Iskandar Puteri ... MSSM / National Schools ... 21 April 2019
10.72 ... Semarang (INA) ... ASEAN Schools ... 20 July 2019
10.78 ... Shah Alam ... MSSM / National Schools ... 23 April 2018
10.85 ... Semarang (INA) ... ASEAN Schools ... 20 July 2019


Selected and best results (Perak All-Comers II 2019)

MEN

100m (-0.3) (20)
1. Mohd Aqil Yasmin 10.64 ... 10.80/+0.1 as 1h4
2. Muhammad Aiman Faris Sayuti 11.18
3. Muhammad Din Norbik 11.22

200m (19)
1. Muhammad Din Norbik 22.54

400m (19)
1. Muhammad Hadzamier Abdul Muhaimin 49.37

800m (20)
1. Abqari Ajwad Kamaruzzaman 2:00.61

5000m (19)
1. Vimal Govendarajoo 16:16.35
2. Dren James Nair 16:28.10

110mh (nwi) (19)
1. Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian 14.53

High Jump (19)
1. Norshafiee Mohd Shah 2.00
2. Muhammad Eizlan Dahalan 2.00

Long Jump (19)
1. Andre Anura 7.41
2. Luqman Hakim Ramlan 7.28

Triple Jump (20)
1. Muhd Shah Sholihin Azhar 14.20
2. Iman Nuh Haniff Amat Salleh 14.06

Shot  Put (20)
1. Kamal Farhan A. Rahman 14.64
2. Muhd Shahrul Mohd Tarmizi 13.42

Discus Throw (19)
1. Muhammad Irfan Shamsuddin 54.05 (AC Record)
2. Abdul Rahman Lee 49.37
3. Mirach Han 40.37

Javelin Throw (19)
1. Syed Abrar Syed Ahmad Zawawi 51.32
2. Muhammad Syazwan Hasnol 51.28

3000m SC (20)
1. Gokhul Raj Balakrishnan 10:02.19
2. Daren James Nair 10:03.45

10000m W (20)
1. Teban Raj Chander 52:54.80
2. Muhammad Alif Mubrak Ahmad 54:20.45

Mixed relay

4x100m mixed (20)
1. Kesatuan Olahraga Malaysia Team 43.91 / National Best Performance
(Azreen Nabila Alias, Jonathan Nyepa, Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli, Nixson Kennedy)


Under 16

100m (-0.5) (20)
1. Muhammad Azeem Fahmi 10.64
2. Ahmad Amir Aiman Kamaruddin 11.38
3. Luqman Nur Hakim Abdul Wahab 11.41

High Jump (19)
1. Aqamudin Azhan 1.90

Discus Throw (1.5kg) (19)
1. Muhammad Haziq Shaari 44.18


WOMEN

100m (-0.9) (20)
1. Azreen Nabila Alias 12.09 ... 12.19/-0.4 as 1h1
2. Aisyah Rofina Aling 12.78
3. Siva Sangkari Asokan 13.16

400m (19)
1. Teoh Kim Chyi 57.92

800m (20)
1. Siti Aisyah Abd Rashid 2:31.85

5000m (19)
1. Sasikala Ganesan 20:31.39
2. Marlin Hing 20:44.82
3. Margreat Mary Johnson 22:18.97

400mh (20)
1. Teoh Kim Ling 67.16
2. Noor Atikah Abdul Zaimi 71.03

High Jump(20)
1. Amni Mohd Naqib 1.60

Long Jump (20)
1. Kirthana Ramasamy 5.88

Shot Put (19)
1. Connie Choo Kang Ni 10.67

Discus Throw (20)
1. Connie Choo Kang Ni 46.81 (AC Record)
2. Queenie Ting Kung Ni 45.05

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Jonathan Nyepa sets 10.47 to win silver at Indian Open

It was a neck to neck at the finish of the men's 100m dash during the 59th Indian Open Track and Field championships today (11 October) at Ranchi.

Eight sprinters completed the race within eighty milliseconds (10.46 to 10.53), and one of the top finishers was a Malaysian sprinter, Jonathan Nyepa.

Jonathan Nyepa has clocked 10.47 (+0.6) to clinch a silver medal, edged out by India's Amiya Kumar Mallick who stopped the clock at 10.46.

Jonathan Nyepa during his semifinal race (10.50s)

Jonathan's season-best of 10.37 that he set in July in Finland is the year's fastest time for Malaysia, and 3rd among Southeast Asian sprinters, after Indonesia's Lalu Zohi (10.03) and Thailand's Jirapong Meenapra (10.34).

He has a PB of 10.28 from 2017 South Korean national championships.

His teammate and the recently crowned Malaysian sprint champion Haiqal Hanafi (SB 10.46) was on 6th, clocking 10.50.

Meanwhile, Malaysia's SEA Games silver medalist Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli (SB 11.65) was also in the finals of women's 100m and set 11.92 (+1.0) to finish in the eighth position.

India's Dutee Chand won the race in 11.25, her second-best run ever after; he ran a new national record during the semifinals with a time of 11.22.

Malaysia's Ruslem Zikry, 19, has gone sub-52s for the first time in the men's 400m hurdles, which is his new personal best.

He is scheduled to compete in the SEA Games in December.

Selected results

MEN

100m (+0.6) (11)
Men’s 100m Final (+0.6)
1. Amiya Mallick 10.46
2. Jonathan Nyepa MAS 10.47
3. Gurindervir Singh 10.48
4. Harjit Singh 10.48
5. Pranav KS 10.50
6. Haiqal Hanafi MAS 10.50
7. Elakkiyadasan 10.52
8. Abhijith Nair 10.53

... 3s1 Haiqal Hanafi 10.56 / +0.7; 1s2 Jonathan Nyepa 10.50 / +0.7; 3s3 Nixson Kennedy 10.68  +1.0;
... 2h1 Haiqal Hanafi 10.5h / + 1.0;  1h4 Nixson Kennedy 10.5h / +0.4; 1h5 Jonathan Nyepa 10.3h / +0.7

200m (+0.9) (13)
1. Abhinav Panwar 21.37
2. Karre Ashok 21.40
3. Manikanda Arumugam 21.44
... 6. Jonathan Nyepa MAS 21.71

400m (12)
1. Noah Nirmal Tom 45.88
2. Amoj Jacob 46.32
3. Jeevan KS 46.77
SF/11-Oct... 5s1 Muhammad Ilham Suhaimi 47.56; 4s2 Lukmanul Hakim Akmal 47.78

400mh (11)
1. Jabir MP 49.41
2. Dharun Ayyasamy 49.50
3. Santhosh Kumar 50.54
.. 6. Ruslem Zikry Putra Roseli MAS 51.91

4x100m (13)
1. Haryana Team 3:08.51
2. Services Team 3:10.11
3. Malaysia Team 3:11.04
(Muhammad Ilham Suhaimi, Lukmanul Hakim Akmal, Rusleem Zikry Putra Roseli, Putra Azrul Syazwan Azman)

WOMEN

100m final (+1.0) (11)
1. Dutee Chand 11.25
2. Archana Suseendran 11.54
3. Himashree Roy 11.57
4. Chandra Anandhan 11.58
5. Sneha PJ 11.66
6. Priyanka Kalagi 11.68
7. Harika Antaram 11.80
8. Zaidatul Husniah MAS 11.92

... 4s1 Siti Fatimah Mohamad 11.99 / -0.9; 5s1 Komalam Shally Selveratnam 12.12 / -0.9; 5se Zaidatul Husniah 11.96 / +0.4; 8s2 Azreen Nabila Alias 12.08 / +0.4

100mh (+0.4) (11)
1. Kanimozhi 14.05
2. Nithya Ramraj 14.15
3. Elezabeth Antony 14.24
... 5. Raja Nursheena Raja Azhar 14.30

1500m (11)
1. Chitra Palakeez Unnikrish 4:17.39
2. Lili Das 4:18.52
3. Chanda 4:19.94
... 9. Savinder Kaur MAS 4:39.19

4x100m (11)
1. Railway team 45.23
2. Malaysia Team 45.97
(Faizah Asma Mazlan, Siti Fatimah Mohamad, Komalam Shally Selvratnam, Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli)
3. Tamil Naidu 46.69

*Malaysian results entered/updated on 14 October 2019
More info: visit Indian Athletics website

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Lee Hup Wei set 2.27m in World Championship Finals

Lee Hup Wei has created a history for Malaysian athletics scene as he entered the final round of the men's high jump of the IAAF World Championships at Doha, Qatar (5 Oct).

He has registered a good height of 2.27m to finish in 8th position out of 12 in the finals, and of 31 athletes overall.

Hup Wei’s feat was the best achievement (finalist) by a Malaysian in the history of the World's major athletics competitions, both the World Championships and the Olympic Games.

Lee Hup Wei, a world champ finalist, is being introduced to the crowd

Qatar's Mutaz Barshim defended his gold medal in 2.37m.

The 32-year-old became the first Malaysian in the finals of World championships after clearing a height of 2.29m, a personal-best during the qualification round.

It was just 1 cm shy of the national record of 2.30m that is held by Nauraj Singh Randhawa since 2017.

He is coached by Aleksandr Garparyan at the national training centre at Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.

What must be highlighted is that Lee Hup Wei's height of 1.81m would give a 'differential' of 48 cm (2.29m - 1.81m) which is exactly the difference between 'jumper's height and jumped height' of the all-time best high jumpers in the world, those whose best jumps of at least 2.40m (who had body heights of ~1.93m on average).

Lee Hup Wei at Doha Wold championships

He has been one of the most consistent Malaysian athletes in international competitions.

For a record, he became the Asian champion in 2007 at the age of 20, where he equaled Loo Kum Zee's national record of 2.24m from the 1995 SEA Games.

He then improved the record by 3cm with 2.27m during the "Good Luck Beijing" in 2008, the Olympic test competition, and then registered another two 2.27m in 2010.

He was in 5th place among world-class fields during the 1st IAAF Continental Cup at Split in 2010 after setting 2.25m, and took part in the Commonwealth Games at New Delhi in the same year and also finished in 5th place (2.23m).

Lee Hup Wei (right) and his coach Aleksandr Gasparyan

His participation in the Olympic Games was in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. He finished in 32nd (2.20m) and 30th (2.16m), respectively in the Games.

He was at the 2018 Asian Games at Jakarta and also the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

Most recently, he competed in the 2019 Asian championships at Doha (same venue) in April and finished in 4th place with a 2.26m clearance.

Results of men's high jump final

Lee Hup Wei's all-time lists in high jump
2.29 ..... Doha (IAAF WC) ..... 01/10/2019
2.28 ..... Canberra ..... 27/01/2018
2.27 ..... Beijing (Olympic Trial)..... 25/05/2008
2.27 ..... Chennai (Asian GP) ..... 09/06/2010
2.27 ..... Naimette ..... 13/07/2010
2.27 ..... Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia Open GP)..... 31/03/2019
2.27 ..... Doha (IAAF WC) ..... 04/10/2019
2.26 ..... Kuala Lumpur ..... 05/08/2018
2.26 ..... Doha (Asian Champ)..... 24/04/2019
2.25 ..... Buhl ..... 18/06/2010
2.24 ..... Amman (Asian Champ) .... 25/07/2007
2.24 ..... Suzhou (Asian GP) ..... 23/05/2009
2.24 ..... Kunshan (Asian GP) ..... 27/05/2009
2.24 ..... Hong Kong (Asian GP) ..... 30/05/2009
2.24 ..... Bengaluru (Asian GP) ..... 05/06/2010
2.24 ..... Sydney ..... 01/04/2017
2.24 ..... Singapore ..... 27/04/2017
2.24 ..... Kuala Lumpur (SEA Games)..... 26/08/2017
2.24 ..... Sydney ..... 04/02/2018

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Lee Hup Wei Set 2.29m to become first Malaysian in IAAF World Championship finals

Malaysia' Lee Hup Wei has becomes the first Malaysian to compete in the final of the IAAF World Championships in athletics.

The 32-year-old has set a new personal best of 2.29m to place in the 5th position out of 31 athletes.

No one including the defending World champion, Mutaz Barshim of Qatar has managed a 2.31m clearance - an automatic qualification mark for the finals.

Ten other athletes have cleared 2.29m, including Hup Wei and the top 12 would advance to the final round.

Lee Hup Wei enters the final round of the IAAF World championships

For a record, Lee Hup Wei won a gold medal from the 2007 Asian championships at Amman after clearing 2.24m.

He then competed in the next two Olympics, Beijing in 2008 (2.20m)  and London in 2012 (2.16m), without advancing to the finals.

He won three gold medals at the SEA Games, in 2007 at Nakhon Ratchasima (2.19m), in 2009 at Vientiane (2.18m), and in 2011 at Palembang (2.15m).

He also competed in the recent Asian Games at Jakarta and the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast. He set 2.20 and 2.21, respectively in these Games.

He is coached by Alex Gasparyan.

High jump qualification summary at Doha

Lee Hup Wei's progress in high jump:

2006 - 2.15    

2007 - 2.24    

2008 - 2.27   

2009 - 2.24    

2010 - 2.27   

2011 - 2.15    

2012 - 2.21    

2013 - 2.22    

2014 - 2.18    

2015 - 2.17    

2016 - 2.22    

2017 - 2.24    

2018 - 2.28    

2019 - 2.29

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