Azreen hoping to grab a hattrick of golds in athletics

TWO events, two golds and one more to go for sprint queen Azreen Nabila Alias of Terengganu.

Azreen powered her way together with Nurul Aiyssa Azman, Siti Norzullaika Ramli, Nur Shafieka Natasha to win the girls’ 4x100m gold with a time of 47.01 at the Perak Stadium yesterday.

It was the second gold for Azreen. On Tuesday, she clocked a personal best of 11.81 to break the 10-year-old girl’s 100m Games record en route to the gold.

And now, Azreen is eyeing to complete her sensational run in the Malaysia Games (Sukma) with the 200m gold tomorrow.

The pint-size Azreen knows that two runners – Shereen Sam son Vallaybouy of Perak and d Chelsea Cassiopea Evali i Bopulas of Sabah could spoil l her party in the 200m.

“It feels nice to win my sec cond gold but I am not done yet t.

I want to complete a sprint dou uble by winning the 200m,” said Azreen, who holds a personal best of 25.45 in the 200m.

“It is going to be a challenge as I’m slow on the bend and I’ll face a strong challenge from other sprinters to finish on the podium.”

Meanwhile, Sarawak’s Quek Lee Yong clocked a personal best of 52.05 to win the boys’ 400m hurdles despite traiining only for a month after rec covering from a hamstring inj jury.

His previous best was 52.36, w which he did two years ago to bag b silver in the Malaysian Open O in Bukit Jalil.

The 20-year-old Lee Yong was surpr rised with his timing as he has been n under rehabilitation programmegram for two months after suffering the injury in the Vietnam Open in Ho Chi Minh City in June. “I only trained for a month and did not even compete in a meet but yet I’m happy to end my last Sukma with a gold,” said Lee Yong.

In the boy’s 800m, Putra Azrul Syazwan Azman of Selangor clocked a personal best of 1:52.50 to upset defending champion and teammate Asif Rahman Jiyaudeen to win the event.

Asif, who featured in the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games last year, clocked 1:53.38 to take silver while Wan Muhammad Fazri Wan Zahary of Kelantan clocked 1:53.55 to settle for bronze.

Putra Azrul, whose previous best was 1:53.76, was happy to exact revenge after playing second fiddle to Asif in the final at the Sarawak Sukma in 2016.

“This time, I managed to upstage him and pulled off a personal best, too,” said Putra Azrul, who is coached by Simon Lau.