3rd Leg Malaysia Athletics Grand Prix 2010, Report, Results and Video

The inaugural Malaysia Athletics Grand Prix concluded yesterday (October 16, 2010) at its 3rd leg/series meet at the National Sports Council Training Track, Bukit Jalil Kuala Lumpur with at least a few pleasing results have produced.

Jen Guo Chan of Selangor has jumped to the attention of Malaysia Athletics with a national lead effort of 7.50m, defeating a former SEA Games champion Syahrul Amri of Kedah in the second place in 7.43m and Sabah's Josbert Tinus who could only jumped 7.19m, some way off his national record mark of 7.88m.

Negeri Sembilan's Kavee Alagan has done a fine job heading to the Malaysia Open Athletics Meet on October 30-31 by a leap of 2.10m to win the men's high jump. SUKMA champion, Nauraj Singh did 2.07m to place second while Azli Ghazali third with 1.98m.

Despite a slow time, Mohd Imran Noor of Johor has retained an unbroken winning streak in the men's 100m. He ran 10.87s to win the race and emerged as the overall champion for the 2010 MAAU Grand Prix.

Johor's Rohaizad Jamil has no problem to overcome a false start controversy in the men's 110mh to win a first place in 14.62s, ahead of Mohaswadie Mohamed who did 14.97s. Sabah's Rayzamshah Sofian who eventually given a chance to run ia a special race (due to a wrong disqualification) clocked a time of 14.19s. Behind rayzam in the special race was Mohaswadie Mohamed who have improved his time from the 'actual race' to 14.85s.

Video of Men's 110mh + special-race



Results are as follows:

MEN

100m

1, Mohd Noor Imran Hadi, 10.87s. 2, Kannan Subramaniam, 11.10s. 3, Mohd Ikhwan Noor, 11.15s. 4, Zabidi Ahmad, 11.25s. 5, Cyrus Krishnan, 11.41s. 6, Azmi Yim, 11.46s.

110mh

1, Mohd Rohaizad Jamil, 14.62s. 2, Mohaswadie Mohamed, 14.97s. 3, Ali Ashraf, 15.29s. 4, Helmi Zainon, 15.38s. 5, Mohs Isaufi Illias, 15.46s. 6, Anslam Sidau, 15.52s. 7, Azizi Ariffin, 16.21s. Rayzamshah Wan Sofian DSQ (False start).

110mh (special-race)

1, Rayzamshah Wan Sofian, 14.19s. 2, Mohaswadie Mohamed, 14.85.

400m

1, Mohd Azmi Kadir, 49.71s. 2, Harmizi Arobi, 49.99s. 3, Shafizee, 51.19s. 4, Hafizi Talib, 52.24s. 5, Jasni Mohd Rizal, 52.53s. 6, Faizul Izuddin, 52.66s.

800m

1, Mohd Jironi Riduan, 1:54.92s. 2, M. Parthiban, 1:56.78s. 3, S. Mathialagan, 1:56.84s. 4, Edison Tuah, 2:04.01s. 5, Uthentaran Muniandy, 2:10.09.

Long Jump

1, Jen Guo Chan, 7.50m (PB/NL). 2, Mohd Syahrul Amri, 7.43m. 3, Josbert Tinus, 7.19m. 4, Mohd Hakimi Ismail, 7.00m. 5, Pang Li Chong, 6.99m. 6, Mohd Syhrul Faiz, 6.65m. 7, Ammar Fitri Zainol, 6.12m.

High Jump

1, Kavee Alagan, 2.10m. 2, Nauraj Singh, 2.07m. 3, Mohd Azli Ghazali, 1.98m. 4, Navin Raj, 1.98m. 5, Low Kah Loon, 1.90m. 6, Rizal Ahmad, 1.90m.

Shot Put

1, Adi Alifuddin, 16.62m. 2, Mohd Hafiz Hashim, 14.56m. 3, Mohd Alif Hanif Affendi, 13.53m. 4, Mohd Sharin Selamat, 12.46m. 5, Zambri Mat Yunus, 11.31m. 6, Samsudin Ismail, 10.76m.

WOMEN

200m

1, Nurul Sarah Abdul Kadir, 25.51s. 2, Siti Zubaidah Adabi, 25.59s. 3, Siti Fatimah Mohamed, 25.68s. 4, Noraseela Khalid, 25.69s. 5, Komala Shally, 25.70s. 6, Zaidatul husnia, 26.41s. 7, Siti Aishah Mathir, 28.37s.

1500m Final

1, K. Gantimathi, 4:45.19s. 2, Melinder Kaur, 5:12.48s. 3, Angela Kundang, 5:42.43s.

Shot Put

1, Siti Nurul Ain, 13.5?, 2. Asreney Asik, 12.9+

*Following are several results from the 2nd leg of MAAU Grand Prix on 18th of September 2010

Men's High Jump
1, Nauraj Singh Randhawa & A. Kavee Alagan, 2.06m. 3, S. Navin Raj, 2.06m.

Women's High Jump
1, Wong Boon Syian, 1.67m

Men's 100m
1, Nor Imran Hadi, 10.66s.

Men's 400m
1, Zaiful Zainal Abidin, 48.49s

Click here to view the MAAU GP 1

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Lerone Clarke and Osayemi Oludamola Crowned as the Sprint King and Queen at 2010 Commonwealth Games, Full Results, Videos

Lerone Clarke of Jamaica crowned the king sprint of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi today.

The 29-year-old held off a strong finish with a 49 strides to cross the line in 10.12s, ahead of burly Englishman, Mark Lewis-Francis (10.20s) and Trinidad and Tobago’s Aaron Armstrong (10.24s).

Lerone Clarke has a personal record of 9.99s and he is on the rank number six or seven in the 100m in Jamaica.

Meanwhile Osayemi Oludamola of Nigeria who finished second in 11.32s had been reawarded the gold medal after a disqualification of Australia’s Sally Pearson. Natasha Mayers of St Vincent and The Grenadines took the silver in 11.37s while English, Katherine Endacott who did a personal best of 11.44s grabbed the bronze medal.

Sally Pearson was disqualified for false start after being declared a winner in the women’s 100m run following protest by England athletics team.

Here is a snippet of my first article right after the finals:

The 2010 edition of Commonwealth Games saw most of top sprint athletes withdrew including Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Dwain Chambers, Richard Thompson Steve Mulling, Michael Frater, Marvin Anderson, Daniel Bailey, and top female sprinters Veronica Campbell-Brown, Kerron Stewart and Kelly-Ann Baptiste because the event is taking place too late in the year or outside of the athletics season.

Results are as follow:

Video of Men and Women 100m Finals:

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Thailand Open Track and Field Championship 2010, Full Results

The 2010 edition of Thailand open track and field championship was held at Thammasat University stadium in Rangsit, Thailand.

As usual, strong foreign teams including Malaysia, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei, Macau, Myanmmar and Sri Lanka took part at the four days championship.

The men's 100m saw a close battle on the line but Malaysia's Imran A. Hadi was declared the winner with a time of 10.54s, just ahead of Hong Kong's Lai Chun Ho in second at 10.55s while Thais sprinter Watchara Sondee third in 10.56s.

Full Results are as follow:
MEN | JUNIOR MEN | BOYS | WOMEN | JUNIOR WOMEN | GIRLS

Results courtesy of Athletics Association of Thailand 

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Ten Years Ago Today: Konstantinos Kenteris Captured the 200m Gold Medal at 2000 Sydney Olympic Games

It was ten years ago today Konstantinos Kenteris of Greece won the men’s 200m at Sydney Olympics. He clocked a time of 20.09s, beaten Darren Campbell (20.14) on the silver position. Ato Boldon, who won silver in 100m earlier, came third in 20.20s.

Kenteris was a 400m runner before switched to 200m during the outdoor season in 1999. At the 1999 World Championship in Seville, he had beaten Maurice Greene (who later became the world champion) in the R1 of 200m but withdrew the quarter finals due to injury.

During the 2000 Olympics, most people surprised when he managed to get a slot of the 200m final. Not like Maurice Greene who won the 100m final earlier, came to Sydney with an overwhelming prospect.

Early in the year, I had predicted the top three on the Olympics podium for 200m would be Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene and Frank Fredericks.

However, both American didn’t proceed due to hamstring injuries en route the 200m final at the U.S Olympics trials. About two weeks before the Olympics, Fredericks pulled out himself due to (ankle?) injury.

In the absence of the three  monsters, John Capel and Ato Boldon were the ones to watch. After the prelim rounds, QFs and SFs, John Capel seems to have a big chance to win, besides Ato Boldon was already run seven times (4 in 100m and 3 in 200m) and rather tired.

NOTE: The men’s 200m SF and Final were held at the same session, which was two hours interval not ONE DAY interval like today’s system. The men’s long jump final also held at the same time, Carl Lewis would get angry with the sort of schedule!

In the final, the field seems very close to each until the 150m mark where all of a sudden Kenteris took the lead and eventually leaving the field to emerge the Olympic champion.

John Capel, who won the U.S Olympic trails (19.85), unfortunately stumbled out of the blocks and finished eighth.

After the Olympics, Kenteris went to win two other major meets, the 2001 World Championship (20.03) and the 2002 European championship (19.85).

Video of 200m Final (Sydney Olympics and Edmonton World Championship)


Men's 200m Final
1, Konstantinos Kenteris, GRE, 20.09. 2, Darren Campbell, GBR, 20.14 3, Ato Boldon, TRI, 20.20. 4, Obadele Thompson, BAR, 20.20. 5, Christian Malcolm, GBR, 20.23. 6, Claudinei Silva, BRA, 20.28. 7, Coby Miller, USA, 20.35. 8, John Capel Jr, USA, 20.49.

SF 1: 1,John Capel Jr, USA, 20.10. 2, Christian Malcolm, GBR, 20.19. 3, Ato Boldon, TRI 20.20. 4, Obadele Thompson, BAR, 20.21. 5, Christopher Williams, JAM, 20.47. 6, Stephane Buckland, MRI, 20.56. 7, Francis Obikwelu, POR, 20.71. 8, Tommi Hartonen, FIN, 20.88.

SF 2: 1, Konstantinos Kenteris, GRE, 20.20. 2, Darren Campbell, GBR, 20.23. 3, Claudinei Silva, BRA, 20.30. 4, Coby Miller, USA, 20.45. 5, Kim Collins, SKN, 20.57. 6, Floyd Heard, USA, 20.63. 7, Koji Ito, JAP, 20.67. 8, Shingo Suetsugu, JAP, 20.69.

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How Fast Can Cristiano Ronaldo Run in the 100m?

Cristiano Ronaldo, a player who is reportedly worth 130 millions in USD has been said the fastest elite football player in the world.

It has been predicted that the Portuguese has a potential to run around 10.6s in the 100m. But some people have claimed he can do 10.5s. After that, they exaggerated the time to 10.3s and then lowered again to 10.2s. But those who don't know track and field or complete silly still believe that he could run as fast as the fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt. Yikes..!

However, a study conducted by Germans in 2009 found that Cristiano Ronaldo reaches an average speed of 33.6 kph. They also indicated Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney and Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie had recorded 32.6kph and 32.1kph respectively, thus slower than Ronaldo.

Last time in a training session I had a flying 60m time recorded at 5.5s (FAT 5.74). This could be roughly translated to 0.9567s per 10 metres segments. Thus, my average speed in kilometer per hour (kph) was about 37.63.

My fastest time over 100m at the time was 10.6s.

Usain Bolt, at the 2009 World Championship in Berlin recorded 9.58s and reached a top speed on the 60-70m segment with +- 0.805s, therefore 44.72kph. His average speed for the distance of 60-80m was 44.72kph, as well (link).

How fast can Ronaldo run the 100m?

Take a look at a comparison. We had a research project (static vs. dynamic stretching...) in 2009 andcollected data for a flying 40 meters among junior sprinters. One of the sprinters has a PB of 11.17 in the 100m (but my project was held during off season) and he recorded a 4.29s (for dynamic stretching). This equates to about 33.57kph, exactly the same to Ronaldo’s average speed.

Though I'm unable to consider environment factors,will Ronaldo run a 11.17 or 10.9 in the 100m?


Update: Read latest article "Cristiano Ronaldo Will Not Run Sub 10s 100m"

Recommended reading:
Cristiano Ronaldo: Champion of the World
Cristiano Ronaldo - Moments
Cristiano Ronaldo (World Soccer Stars / Estrellas Del Futbol Mundial)
The Story of Real Madrid

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Mohd Elfi Mustapha

Name: Mohd Elfi Mustapha
Nationality: Singapore
Event: Sprints (100m)
Born: 4 November 1987
Height: 5-9
Weight: 70

Personal Best: 
100m 10.56 -0.4 Singapore (25 July 2010)
200m 22.42

Major Meets:
Asian Championships- Kobe 2011
World University Games- Shenzhen 2011

Career Highlights:
2010: Gold Medalist at 100m (10.59)  in the ASEAN University Games.

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Ten Years Ago Today: Maurice Greene Won Gold Medal at 2000 Sydney Olympics

It was ten years ago today Maurice Greene captured gold medal in the men's 100m final at 2000 Olympic Games at Sydney, Australia.

Greene who came to the Olympics as the world fastest man with 9.79 set a year before, crossed the line in 9.87 -0.3 ahead of training partner Ato Boldon 9.99 and Barbados' Obadeli Thompson 10.04.

A few days later he, along with teammates John Drummond, Bernard Williams, and Brian Lewis, won the 4x100 meter relay in 37.65.

Greene's 100m time still ranks among the top-10 on the all-time list. Usain Bolt holds the current WR in 9.58, second fastest is Tyson Gay in 9.69, followed by Asafa Powell (9.72) and Nesta Carter (9.78).

As of today, he is the only sprinter to hold the Indoor 60m (6.39) and 100m (9.79) WR at the same time. His 60m WR which set twice still stand.

Greene, who dominated the sprint century for at least six years during his prime time has 53 times sub 10s in the 100m which at the time was more than any other sprinter in history.

On February 2008, he announced his retirement from athletics following a spat of injuries which have derailed him since 2006.

AdrianSprints.com rated Maurice Greene one of the greatest sprinters of all time, no doubt along with Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Tommie Smith, Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt.


Maurice Greene R1, QF, SF and Final (Video)




Men's 100m Final Results (-0.3)

1 Maurice Greene (USA) 9.87
2 Ato Boldon (TRI) 9.99
3 Obadeli Thompson (BAR) 10.04
4 Dwain Chambers (GBR) 10.08
5 Jon Drummond (USA) 10.09
6 Darren Campbell (GBR) 10.13
7 Kim Collins (SKN) 10.17
DNF: Aziz Zakari (GHA)

Men's 100m SF 2
1, Maurice Greene (USA) 10.06s. 2, Jon Drummond (USA) 10.10s. 3, Ato Boldon (TRI) 10.13s. 4, Aziz Zakari (GHA) 10.16s. 5, Matt Shirvington (AUS) 10.2s6. 6, Aliu Deji (NGR) 10.32s. 7, Sunday Emmanuel (NGR) 10.45s. 8, Bruny Surin (CAN) 50.94s.

Men's 100m SF 1
1 Dwain Chambers (GBR) 10.14s. 2, Obadeli Thompson (BAR) 10.15s. 3, D Campbell (GBR) 10.19s. 4, Kim Collins (SKN) 10.20s. 5, L Myles-Mills (GHA) 10.25s. 6, Curtis Johnson (USA) 10.27. 7, Koji Ito (JAP) 10.39s. 8, Lindel Frater (JAM) 10.46s.

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72nd Singapore Open Track and Field Championship 2010, Results and Videos

The 72nd Singapore open track and field championship was held from 18-19 September 2010 at Gombak Stadium, Singapore. Following are the full results and videos from sprint events:

Results: Click here (Singapore Athletics)

Video of Men's 100m Final


Video of Women's 100m Final



Results and Videos Courtesy of Singapore Athletics

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