14th ASEAN University Games 110m Hurdles Finals
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Hakeem breaks 42-year-old national record at the 14th Asean University Games!
The 14th Asean University Games 2008 was held at Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Jalil Stadium, Malaysia.
Singapore sent a contingent of athletes from 20 over different sports to compete in this season's last competition.
Athletics events started from 15th to 18th December.
Results from the competition were up to expectation and Singapore AUG contingent morale was aroused by the smashing of the longest track record held in Singapore Athletics!
The 110m Hurdles national record was formally set by Osman Merican at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok with the timing of 14.76s, 42 years ago.
Abdul Hakeem erased the record book with his new national record of 14.45s, slashing the previous record by 0.31s!
Here are the results:
1st ROBANI HASSAN Malaysia 14.07s HR
2nd ABDUL HAKEEM ABDUL HALIM Singapore 14.45s
3rd SURIYA JUDASRI Thailand 14.55s
4th MOHD. ROHAIZAD JAMIL Malaysia 14.70s
5th MICHAEL VAUGHN F. MENDOZA Philippines 15.11s
6th CAHYO APIP DWI Indonesia 15.21s
7th ROBIN DARWIN TULIAO Philippines 15.37s
Singapore sent a contingent of athletes from 20 over different sports to compete in this season's last competition.
Athletics events started from 15th to 18th December.
Results from the competition were up to expectation and Singapore AUG contingent morale was aroused by the smashing of the longest track record held in Singapore Athletics!
The 110m Hurdles national record was formally set by Osman Merican at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok with the timing of 14.76s, 42 years ago.
Abdul Hakeem erased the record book with his new national record of 14.45s, slashing the previous record by 0.31s!
Here are the results:
1st ROBANI HASSAN Malaysia 14.07s HR
2nd ABDUL HAKEEM ABDUL HALIM Singapore 14.45s
3rd SURIYA JUDASRI Thailand 14.55s
4th MOHD. ROHAIZAD JAMIL Malaysia 14.70s
5th MICHAEL VAUGHN F. MENDOZA Philippines 15.11s
6th CAHYO APIP DWI Indonesia 15.21s
7th ROBIN DARWIN TULIAO Philippines 15.37s
Congratulations to Hakeem and hope he will smash his record again very soon!
Apart from Hakeem, our training group has another representative that went to the Games to participate in 4 x 100m, 4 x 400m and the 200m.
Melanie has been training since her secondary school days and competed in the national schools competition. Only when she was in Millennia Institute did she start to train seriously, and she trained 5 days a week before she entered University.
She showed vast improvement in her sprint work and strength, and for that she earned herself a place to compete during the IVP where she won the 200m race.
She was then selected for the AUG - and this being her 1st overseas meet representing the country and her university, she was eager and ready to perform well.
Although she did not manage to break her PB for this trip, it is always a great experience to race with athletes at different levels.
I believe she will learn a lot and this will not be her last overseas competition, there is still a long way to go.
Melanie has been training since her secondary school days and competed in the national schools competition. Only when she was in Millennia Institute did she start to train seriously, and she trained 5 days a week before she entered University.
She showed vast improvement in her sprint work and strength, and for that she earned herself a place to compete during the IVP where she won the 200m race.
She was then selected for the AUG - and this being her 1st overseas meet representing the country and her university, she was eager and ready to perform well.
Although she did not manage to break her PB for this trip, it is always a great experience to race with athletes at different levels.
I believe she will learn a lot and this will not be her last overseas competition, there is still a long way to go.
I hope this will encourage more athletes to believe in themselve and miracles do happen!
