Firdaus Mazalan Bettered National Junior Record at 400m Hurdles Twice in a Week

One of the best results achieved at Kedah Open at Alor Star which ended yesterday was in the men's 400m hurdles. Promising hurdler Mohd Firdaus Mazalan shines in front of the home crowd to blaze to victory in 52.50s, a new National Junior Record, again, after lowering the previous mark 52.57s that shared by Azlan Samsuddin and Muhamad Firdaus Mazalan (b. 1992) to 52.56s in last week's Negeri Sembilan open.

Interestingly, his time is comfortably within the standard of World Junior Championships (53.34s) that is staged at Barcelona on July 10-15, 2012. But the 19-year-old who based in Kuala Lumpur (National Training Track) is also gunning for the gold medal at Malaysian Games (SUKMA) which will be held in July at Kuantan.

Meanwhile, in sprints, Mohd Zabidi Ghazali continues to win the men's 100m. He produced a respectable time of 10.58s, only one hundredths of a second late to his lifetime best 10.57s. For a record, he set 10.42s during the Malaysian Athletics Federation (MAF) Grand Prix last week but the time was discounted after the timing system was believed to be "malfunction".

On the field, the best result came from women's triple jump. Noor Amira Mohf Nafiah, who probably don't have other colour of medals apart from the "gold" from any competition among the locals, now reinforced the dominant after sailing to a 13.57m distance which improved her previous best by 20cm as she won the event easily, as usual.

Last Friday in the MAF Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur she leaped 13.37m and then equalled the distance at the following day at Seremban.

Results to follow ... stay tune.

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Jamras Rittidet 13.83, Rayzam Shah 13.87 110MH Asian GP 2nd Leg, Kanchanaburi 2012

Fast times produced in the men's 110m hurdles at the 2nd leg of Asian Athletics Grand Prix 2012 at Kanchanaburi province yesterday (11 May 2012). Fan Jiang of China was at his best to beat Kuwait's Almandeel Abdul Aziz (winner of the 1st leg in Bangkok) with 13.54s and bagged the gold. Abdul Aziz who produced 13.58s in the first leg only manage to finish in 13.69s.

But the point of talking among SEA fans and athletes was the current fastest hurdlers in Southeast Asia, Jamras Rittidet and Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian. Rittidet, the reigning SEA Games champion held off the challenge of his Malaysian rival to steal the bronze in a season best time of 13.83s, with 13.87s for Rayzam. 

In the previous race (1st leg) Rittidet was ahead of Rayzam with nearly the same margin of time. But Rayzam had a season best (and PB) 13.81s clocked at Melbourne last month, which is better than Rittidet's performances here. Now there's the final leg scheduled on the 14th of May, which is going to be more exciting and faster times will be seen.

Meanwhile, Chinese athlete continue to dominate the sprint hurdles when Sun Yawei took the gold medal in the women's event in 13.22s. But the victory was not that easy as Indonesia's Dedeh Erawati was just two hundredths of a second trailing behind her (13.24s).

Complete results Asian Athletics Grand Prix, 2nd leg Kanchanaburi, Thailand

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Singapore 39.58 4x100m NR at Asian GP 2012

Despite of finishing in fifth position in the men's 4x100m yesterday at the 2nd leg of Asian GP in Kanchanaburi (11 May 2012),  Singaporean national team has bettered the national record 39.82s set in 2009 SEA Games with a new mark of 39.58s.

Interestingly, the team with line-up of ...
Calvin Kang Li Loong (Pb 10.53, Sb 10.91 & 10.70w/2011),
Gary Yeo Foo Ee (Pb 10.62/10.46w, Sb 10.74/10.60w),
Lee Cheng Wei (Pb 10.61, Sb 10.78),
Muhd Amiruddin Jamal (Pb 10.53, Sb 10.69/2011),
...has once again, beaten the two prominent teams in Southeast Asia, Indonesia (40.23s 6th) and Thailand (40.25s 7th) after they did it in the 1st leg three days ago.

Note: in 2011 SEA Games, the team only lost the gold to Indonesia in the photo-finish when both teams finished in the same time in 39.91s.

In the first leg in Bangkok, the team (same sprinters) was registering 39.83s, only one hundredths of a second slower than the previous national record.

China won the race in 38.65s, Hong Kong finished in 2nd in 38.71, and followed by Chinese Taipei (39.19s) and South Korea (39.58s).

Third leg, the final leg of 2012 Asian GP will be held in Chonburi on May 14, 2012.

Full results: Asian GP 2nd Leg Kanchanaburi

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National Records for All Countries in the World

An ATFS Publication

The 2012 edition of this valuable work with records as at 31 December 2011 for all Olympic events for each country and many territories (234 in all) is NOW AVAILABLE.

Records for KOSOVO and various French overseas territories are included for the first time.

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe...

And many "countries/territories" that you have never heard like Aland, Anguilla, Comoros Islands, Cook Islands, Curacao, Eritrea, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gabon, Gibraltar !!, Guernsey, Liechtenstein, Mayotte, Montserrat, St Helena, St Pierre & Miquelon, Sao Tome, Turks & Caicos Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna etc. included.



Compilers/Editors:
1) Winfried Kramer (Neunkirchen-Kohlhof, Germany)
2) Heinrich Hubbeling (Vreden, Germany)
3) Yves Pinaud (Rue des Bordeaux, France)
4) Steffen Stubben (Gustrow, Germany)

Publisher: Association of Track and Field Statisticians (ATFS)
Pagination: 248
Size: A5
Price: 25 Euros
Order to: Winfried Kramer,  Kohlrodweg 12, 66539 Neunkirchen-Kohlhof, GERMANY. or
Email:  kramer@saar.de

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ASIAN Athletics Grand Prix 2012 - RESULTS, STATISTICS, PUBLICATIONS

Results of the 2012 ASIAN Athletics Grand Prix at Thailand as follows;

Leg 1: 08 May 2012, Bangkok - Results

Leg 2: 11 May 2012, Kanchanaburi - Start Lists, Results

Leg 3: 14 May 2012, Chonburi - Start Lists, Results

Statistics and Publication

ASIAN Continental Records as at 15 April 2012 (by Heinrich Hubbeling)

ASIAN Grand Prix Records (by Rahul Pawar & Ram. Murali Krishnan)

ASIAN Grand Prix "Past Champions"  (by Rahul Pawar & Ram. Murali Krishnan)

ASIAN Athletics TOP 10 Rankings 2011 (by Heinrich Hubbeling)

Note: ASIAN Athletics Annual Rankings 2011 / very deep annual ranking lists is NOW AVAILABLE. Publication date: 05 May 2012. 

The 23rd consecutive year of magnificent job by Heinrich Hubbeling contains TOP 30 Rankings and nearly 100 further lists (except JPN & CHN) at almost 50 events . Published in May 05, 2012. Please contact the compiler immediately if there's any interest at (email):  

hhubbeling@t-online.de

More details on this publication (and SEA Annuals) can be found/downloaded here. You only need to inform your interest to the compilers/editors and then further details will be provided.

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