PETALING JAYA: Competing in the sprint and jumping events during her school days at SMK Sg Maong seemed like steep hurdles for Mandy Goh Li (pic).
MOHD Hazriq Cik Mat Kilau aspires to follow in the footsteps of his hero, American hurdler and sprinter Grant Holloway.
PARIS: What’s good enough for Brad Pitt and David Beckham is good enough for French athlete Sasha Zhoya, who has been given the green light to wear a skirt at the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
(Reuters) - The Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared Tobi Amusan, world record holder in 100 metres hurdles, of an anti-doping rule violation on Friday, rejecting appeals from World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
SEPANG: National junior sprinter Mohd Hazriq Cik Mat Kilau intends to outshine national 110m hurdler Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian and make his mark at the international stage in the event.
PETALING JAYA: Balancing tertiary education and athletics training can be a challenge for an athlete. Just ask national sprinter Nur Afrina Batrisyia (pic).
PETALING JAYA: It was a good day for Malaysia at the Qasanov Memorial as discus thrower Choo Kang Ni powered her way to a gold and hurdler Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian qualified for the SEA Games.
KUALA LUMPUR: Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian has been the country’s top men’s 110m hurdler for the last 13 years – and he is not happy about it.
KUALA LUMPUR: Former national athlete Zulkifli Mohd Yatim has died of nose cancer at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital yesterday. He was 59.
PETALING JAYA: Even the best athlete has to deal with confidence issue.
KUALA LUMPUR: A switch from long jump to 400m hurdles three years ago has turned out to be a good move for Mandy Goh Li (pic). With success and experience on her side, Mandy has set a new goal – to become only the second Malaysian woman hurdler to dip below 60 seconds. The first is former national ace Noraseela Khalid, who holds the national record of 56.02.
CHELTENHAM, England (Reuters) - Poniros, a 100/1 jumps debutant owned by the big-betting chairman of Premier League Brighton & Hove Albion and ridden by a jockey who had planned to be elsewhere, stunned Cheltenham with an opening win on Gold Cup Friday.
PETALING JAYA: National 110m hurdler Rizzua Haizad Muhamad (pic) has set his sights on breaking an eight-year national record.
PETALING JAYA: Hurdler Fakhrul Afizul Nasir wants to wrap up the year with a fitting end at the Sarawak Super Series Final today.
(Reuters) - French hurdler Wilfried Happio has been provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Thursday.
WILSON Quaik Zhen Han was a 12-year-old hurdler taking part in a local track and field competition when Rifat Artikov first saw him.
Rosita Missoni, who, with her husband, Ottavio, built a luxury clothing brand on a foundation of boldly colourful striped and zigzagged knitwear that helped make Milan a capital of Italian high fashion, has died. She was 93.
KUALA LUMPUR: The national athletics squad are expected to face tough challenges in their effort to bring home more gold medals at the 2025 SEA Games from Dec 9 to 20 in Thailand.
PETALING JAYA: The Ibans are famous for being fearsome warriors and on the football field, Sarawakian Jimmy Raymond is turning out to be reliable defender for the national team.
‘No matter how hard she tries to look like Wu Yanni, she cannot run as fast as her,’ says a commenter.