PETALING JAYA: Malaysian sporting great Karunakarer Selvaratnam celebrates his 82nd birthday today as a hero of kids’ athletics. At an age when many are content to sit and reflect, the double international rules as a leader of grassroots athletics and as a consummate game-changer in talent development. His little athletics entity, Young Talent Track & …
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By Aftar Singh – January 27, 2023 @ 5:31pm KUALA LUMPUR: National sprinter Russel Alexander Nasir Taib is settling in well at his new training base in Loughborough, England. Russel, who is Malaysian-born but based in Australia previously, shifted to Loughborough at the end of last year where he trains with an elite sprints squad …
KUALA LUMPUR: Azeem Fahmi has got off to a good start in the US, breaking the national record in the men’s 60m indoor sprint event at the 2023 Texas Tech Open meet, on Friday. The 18-year-old, making his indoor debut for Auburn University, clocked 6.63 seconds (s) in the semifinals to finish third, breaking a …
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By Aftar Singh – December 2, 2022 @ 8:25pm KUALA LUMPUR: Nurul Ashikin Abas upstaged national athlete R. Kirthana to win the women’s triple jump gold medal with a leap of 12.72m on the first day of the Saeca-BJSS Athletics Championships at NSC Training Track in Bukit Jalil today. The 25-year-old Kirthana, who finished fourth …
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By Aftar Singh – December 2, 2022 @ 3:55am KUALA LUMPUR: Sea Games pole vault champion Nor Sarah Adi has not been able to recover her favourite pole which went missing at the Malaysia Games in September. The Pahang athlete will have to use a new pole for the SAECA-BJSS Athletics Championships which begin today …