By AFTAR SINGH and LIM TEIK HUAT WHEN Indonesia’s Suryo Agung Wibowo won the 2009 SEA Games 100m race, he was imperious. His timing was better even than the winner of the blue riband event at the Asian Games the following year. China’s Lao Yi could only manage 10.24. But that was as good as it got …
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KUALA LUMPUR: No joy for athletes despite plenty of medals. SEA Games gold medallist Mohd Irfan Shamsuddin was not wearing a smile despite winning the gold medal in the discus at the Australian Capital Territory in Canberra on Sunday. The 19-year-old burly athlete from Seremban, hurled 51.79m, which is way off his national record of …
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by aftar singh KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd Irfan Shamsuddin has been let off the hook for assaulting fellow athlete A. Kavee Alagan last month. High jumper Kavee alleged that Irfan, a gold medallist discus thrower at the Myanmar SEA Games, had knocked him unconscious during an argument in their National Sports Council (NSC) hostel in …
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ATHLETICS: Worst record in history – Other – New Straits Times. POOR SHOWING: Athletics squad fail to meet official target THE tears flowed freely for Adi Alifuddin Hussin while Hakimi Ismail erased a 24-year-old national record in a tale of near misses for the country’s Sea Games track and field athletes at the Wunna Theikdi …
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