BIG NAMES 7 Olympic Gold Medallists and World Champions Join the Fray
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+ NewSundayTimes . AUGUST 20, 2017 50 SPORT 29TH SEA GAMES C 9'· ASEAN PARA GAMES <!l BIG NAMES 7 OLympic goLd medallists and world champions join the fray FADHLI ISHAK the newly completed National Velo- world map in diving when she took b rea k- [email protected] drom. Teammates Mohd Shah Fir- bronze in the women's platform in- through at daus Sahrom, who secured his first dividual event at the 2012 London the Rio HOUGH known as a devel- World Cup medal earlier this year, as Olympics. The duo teamed up to Games last opment platform for up and well as former Asian Championship clinch the platform synchronised sil- year where he coming athletes from gold medallist Fatehah Mustapa, will ver at the Rio Olympics last year and won a gold in around the region, the Kuala T also be competing for Malaysia. bronzeat the Budapest World Cham- the men's 10m Lumpur Sea Games will also feature a Swimming will feature Singapore pionships last month. _ air pistol and + number of world class athletes for lo- sensation Joseph Schooling, who Jun Hoong also stepped out of silver in the cal fans to savour first hand. hogged the limelight worldwide when Pandelela's shadow in Budapest 50m free pis- The following athletes are among he beat childhood idol Michael when she stunned the field to win the tol. the big names who have been reg- Phelps en route to the 100m butterfly platform individual gold against all China-born istered for the games and barring gold at the Rio Olympics last year. odds. Feng Tianwei injury or any unforeseen circum- He, 'however, made the headlines All eyes will be on Indonesian Eko will feature for stances, the following athletes will for 'the wrong reasons recently hav- Yuli lrawan in the weightlifting com- Singapore in compete in track cycling, diving, ing commented: "I think it will be nice petition at the Malaysia Internation- the women's swimming, weightlifting, taekwondo, to go to Malaysia's backyard and al Trade and Exhibition centre table tennis shooting and badminton. teach them a-thing or two" in a tele- (MITEC) on Aug28-30. competition on Olympic bronze medallist Azizul- vision interview with Singapore's Eko, a three-time Olympic medal- Aug 20-26. Tian- hasni Awang will lead the nation's Channel NewsAsia on Aug 1. list (Beijing, London, Rio), will be ea- wei, 30, is a three- charge in track cycling at the Na- The 2-2-year-old has since apolo- ger to defend his men's under-62kg time Olympic tional Velodrome in Nilai from Aug 27 gised for the remark but it will be gold as the sport was not included at medallist and will be t029. interesting to see how the Malaysian the Singapore Games. the outright favourite , Azizulhasni, who entered the his- crowd receives him during the com- The 28-year-old has won gold at at MlTEC. tory books last year as the first petition from Aug 21-26 at the Na- every edition of the Sea Games since Thai exponent Tawin Malaysian to win a medal in cycling at tional Aquatics Centre in Bukit Jalil. the 2007 Korat games. Hanprab will be the man to the Olympics, is in fine form, having The diving event will no doubt be a Vietnam's hopes in the shooting watch in the taekwondo recently secured his maiden World highly anticipated affair for local .competition at the National Shoot- competition at the Kuala Championship title in his pet event, fans with dive queens Pandelela Ri- ingRange in Subangon Aug21-26 will the keirin. Lumpur Convention Centre nong and Cheong Jun Hoong both rest on the shoulders of pistol spe- (KLCC)'on Aug 21-26. The Terengganu-born is keen to competing. cialist Hoang Xu an Vinh. The youngster, who turned 19 appear in front of a home crowd at Pandelela put' Malaysia on the Xu an Vinh made his Olympic' on Aug 1, is a rising star in the sport having won silver in the men's under 58kg class at the Rio Olympics last year. The badminton World Champi- onships in Glasgow has robbed the tournament of many big names, including Lee Chong Wei, though Chan Peng Soon, who delivered the mixed double silver in Rio together with Goh Liu Ying , will be competing. He will partner Cheah Yee See in the mixed doubles and they are expected to challenge for the gold ...