Mixed emotions for Loro
LORO Wellkinson Peuji claimed two gold medals in the Malaysia Games men’s 77kg event, but fell short of breaking both his national records in Kuching yesterday.
A nagging back injury forced him to let go of the bars during both record-breaking attempts.
His national clean and jerk record,
BITTERSWEET: Injury denies double gold medallist of national record
ARCHERY — Men’s Individual Olympic Round Recurve:
Women’s Individual Olympic Round Recurve:
ATHLETICS — Men’s 10,000m:
High Jump:
Hammer:
Triple Jump:
Women’s 5,000m Walk: achieved at the Asian Weightlifting meet in Kazakhstan recently, stands at 171kg, but he could only lift 166kg yesterday.
His attempt at 172kg was almost completed, but he let go of the bar after struggling to steady himself. And in the snatch, he won the gold with a 137kg lift, far below his record of 145kg. Sabah’s
Peuji fails in his bid to break the national record in the 77kg Snatch yesterday.
Discus:
BOWLING — Mixed Doubles:
CYCLING — Men’s Criterium:
Women’s Criterium:
DIVING — Men’s 10m Individual Platform:
Women’s 3m Synchronised Springboard:
SEPAK TAKRAW — Men’s Team:
Women’s Team:
SHOOTING: Men’s 10m Air Rifle Individual:
However, his 137kg snatch lift claimed the Games record.
In the morning events, the saying ‘No Pain No Gain’ was aptly turned into reality by Sabah lifter Marceeta Marylynee Marcus, who lifted a golden 86kg load in the women's 58kg clean and jerk.
Suffering from back pain before and during the lifts, Marceeta also won
Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Individual:
Team:
Team:
25m Rapid Fire Pistol Individual:
Team:
SWIMMING — Men’s 100m Butterfly:
200m Breaststroke:
400m Freestyle:
4x200m Freestyle: silver in the snatch with a 65kg lift.
Marceeta said she was more focused on winning both the gold medals in her category, but could not bring herself to push harder in the snatch.
“I was good enough to win both the gold, but a nagging back pain hit me during training yesterday (Monday) and I was actually struggling during
Women’s 100m Butterfly:
Clean and Jerk: the snatch but am glad with the silver.
“My coach wanted me to lift higher in the clean and jerk, but after he saw the agony on my face, he brought it down to 86kgs,” said Marceeta.
But the weight was still a good 11kgs better than second placed Nurul Basirah of Terengganu, who lifted 75kgs. Third was Norasyikin Nabila, also of Terengganu, on 73kgs.
However, Norasyikin won the snatch gold with a 66kg lift. The bronze went to Nurul Basirah on 61kgs.