VALENCIA: Joshua Cheptegei smashed the 10,000m track world record and Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey set a new mark for the women’s 5,000m on a heady night of athletics in Valencia on Wednesday. All the talk in the run-up to the meet was of Cheptegei’s assault on Kenenisa Bekele’s time of 26min 17.53sec established in 2005 in …
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Kuala Lumpur: Life has been hard for American athletics coach Dwayne Miller, who has had to mourn the passing of two family members and being 13,000 kilometres away from his family. The global Covid-19 pandemic and the on-going travel ban haven’t made life any easier for the 55-year-old, who took over as Malaysian Athletics Federation …
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THE Foundation for Malaysian Sporting Excellence (SportExcel) are confident that their development-level tournaments, which have been put on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic, can still be held before the end of the year. SportExcel only managed to organise less than 20 per cent of its 78 development-level tournaments and circuits involving 13 sports before …
By BERNAMA / Pic AFP SIX national sports athletes have been identified with the opportunity to earn a merit ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games next year. The six athletes are two national high jumpers, Lee Hup Wei and Nauraj Singh Randhawa, men’s discus thrower Muhammad Irfan Shamsuddin, national long jump record holder Andre …
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THE lack of track and field training has posed a challenge for former Olympic athlete from Sarawak Watson Nyambek (picture), to train his charges to maintain their level of speed and endurance. The 44-year-old former national sprinter, who is now coach of the Sarawak athletics squad, said since the implementation of the Movement Control Order …
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