Three more takes total to nine

24/06/1998

CHE Azrol, Jerry Nonong and Dominic Junior joined the list of record
breakers at the Pre-Commonwealth Games Weightlifting Championships at the
Mines Exhibition Hall in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
Their lifts took the final tally to nine national records in three days,
even though they were competing among themselves and not pushed to the
limit.
Nineteen-year-old Che Azrol of Terengganu set the pace when he smashed
three of his own national records in the 105kg and below.
His lift of 122.5kg in snatch erased the two-month-old record of 120kg
but was far below the Commonwealth Championship record of 152.5kg held by
Nigel Avery of New Zealand.
He then lifted 152.5kg in the clean and jerk to beat the previous
national record by 2.5kg.
His combined effort of 275kg was better than the old mark of 265kg.
In the 94kg clean and jerk, Jerry lifted 150kg to erase Dominic's 142.5
done at the Terengganu Open in March while in the snatch, Dominic smashed
Jerry's old mark of 112.5kg with a laudable 115kg lift.
The competition in the snatch was so keen that right after Dominic
lifted 115kg, Jerry went up the stage and equalled the new record.
On Sunday, Jaya '98 trainee Rahman Ahmad rewrote two national records
and equalled the Commonwealth Championship record in the 56kg category.
In the snatch, Rahman lifted 107.5kg to smash the old record of 102.5
set by Roswadi Rashid. It equalled the Commonwealth Championship record
set by India's Thandava Muthu.
In the combined total, he lifted 237.5kg to shatter Roswadi's national
record of 227.5 and on Monday, Mohamed Hidayat and Edmund Yeo cracked two
national records.
"Competing among themselves is not good enough because there is no
pressure to lift more," said team manager Abu Hanapah.
The six national trainees - Hidayat (69kg), Rahman (56kg), Matin Guntali
(56kg), Edmond (85kg) and Kamaruzaman Jusan (62kg) - will now head for
Turkey for a training stint with a club that is run by "Pocket Hercules"
Naim Suleymanoglu.
RESULTS - 94kg snatch: 1 Jerry Nonong 115kg, 2 Dominic Junior 115 (nat
rec), 3 Sapri Latif 102.5; Clean and jerk: 1 Jerry 150 (nat rec), 2 Sapri
140, 3 Dominic 137.5; Total: 1 Jerry 265.0, 2 Dominic 252.5, 3 Sapri
242.5.
105kg and below - Snatch: 1 Che Azrol 122.5kg (nat rec), 2 Zahirudin
Ismail 90kg, 3 Hoo Chee Chiang 85kg; Clean and jerk: 1 Che Azrol 152.5kg
(nat rec), 2 Zahirudin 115kg, 3 Chee Chiang 112.5kg; Total: 1 Che Azrol
275kg (nat rec), 2 Zahirudin 205kg, 3 Chee Chiang 197.5kg.
105kg and above: 1 Syed Fardoh 115kg, 2 Chan Mon Seng 117.5, 3 Sukri
Talib 105; Clean and jerk: 1 Syed 140, 2 Chan 137, 3 Sukri 120; Total: 1
Syed 255, 2 Chan 255, 3 Sukri 225.
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