Editor Note I’ve always been impressed by the Malaysian and Thai on how they handle their athletics. Our local athletics can learn plenty from these nations policy. Unlike us, no they’re not sending their ‘China Team B’ to competitions and these countries mentioned like Singapore, has its own set of politics, which association doesn’t right, but despite that, their athletes performances time and again in the recent competition such as the SEA Games showed why they’re the powerhouse in Track & Field in this region The Thai and Malaysian attribute their success to their abundant youth talent unearthed in their junior scheme, their faith in local coaches in leading positions, and importantly successful transition from junior to senior ranks. There will always be a successful continuation of top performance athletics at every level for years to come Their association has made it clear that you can make it a career out of their passion, and even after retiring from the sport, the athletes are still assured of job security. Even down and out injured or not performing either, the athlete is not out left in the dumps. That peace of mind, are likely to spur their athletes to focus on the training at hand and winning medals In Singapore, sports is generally seen as a field in which overall societal development or parents’ expectations weigh more than the needs in terms of one pursuit of happiness Report: National Schools Sports Council (MSSM) Athletics Championships 2008
Eleven records fell at the four day athletics event. The games saw talented juniors clocking credible times Terengganu’s Zabidi Ahmad just 17, in the Boys Under-18 200m, he clocked 22.13 seconds to win the 200m on final day. He won the double, by winning the 100m event on previous days in a time of 10.91s. He will compete at the World Junior Championships in Poland in July for the 100m event after meeting the qualifying time and has a PB of 10.51 seconds in the 100m The Terengganu state also saw another of their boys, Ajmal Aiman Mat Hassan won his 200m Boys Under-15 event in a new championship timing of 22.58 seconds, bettering the previous 2004 record of 22.89 seconds by Perlis’s Daniel Azwan Amar Nand
Sabah sent a strong team. They won the 4x100m Boys Under-15 event in 44.03 seconds, nipping the Terengganu boys for gold by 0.19s. They also claimed the Boys Under-15 4x400m who clocked a new championship timing of 3:29.81, bettering the old time of 3:30.00 by the Sarawak boys The girls was not to be left out. Sarawak’s Sheila Yus fledging foray into athletics saw her grabbing the overall best female athlete with her record breaking performance in the Girls Under-12 80m hurdles record time of 13.06s Cynthia Manghing from Sabah completed her double by winning gold in Girls Under-15 100m and 200m (25.70 seconds) The 200m Girls Under-18 saw Terengganu’s Nurul Faizah Asma Mazlan winning it in 25.52 seconds while Kuala Lumpur’s Siti Nurhayati Zulkifli grabbed silver in a time of 25.87 seconds. But Siti Nurhayati Zulkifli got revenge when she won the 100m Girls Under-18 gold ahead of Terengganu’s Nurul Faizah Asma Mazlan There was a new record in Girls Under 18 4x400m as the Terengganu girls bettered their old record of 4:04.34 set last year to a new time of 4:04.08, well ahead of Selangor who clocked 4:05.36 and the Sabah girls settled for bronze in a time of 4:07.58 The Sarawak state won the overall medal standing with 16 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals. Terengganu was second with 15 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze, just a gold medal away from Sarawak tally. The final standing is Sarawak, Terengganu, Sabah (14-10-9), Perak (6-9-10) and Selangor (6-5-7) for the top five states Boys Results
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Here’s a recent report of the National Schools Sports Council (MSSM) Athletics Championships 2008 held by the Malaysians recently at MBPJ Stadium (Kelana Jaya, KL). An annual junior competition for kids all over the state, where the various state sports school, individual schools and clubs send their best junior athletes to compete under state flag, quite similar to our 
Ajmal also won the 110m hurdles in record time and was named the overall best male athlete for his two record-breaking runs and two silvers (4x100m and 200m hurdles). He’s a Form Three student of Bukit Jalil Sports School and you’ll be seeing him and Zabidi in Singapore come June for the Asean Schools Championships
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be careful when writing..cynthia maghing (winner of 100m girl) is not from sarawak..shes from sabah…