Vaskee closes in on Zaiton's record

07/06/1998

THE Kuala Lumpur AAA Open at the Merdeka Stadium yesterday was devoid of
any big name as most of the national athletes decided to skip it and
prepare for next week's Perak Open.
The silver lining was V. Vaskee of Great Eastern Life who collected
2,677 heptathlon points from four events. She won gold in the high jump
(1.70m), 100m hurdles (15.37s), 200 (27.45) and silver in the shot put
(7.29m).
"If Vaskee continues her fine performance today in the long jump,
javelin and 800m, she might just crack Zaiton Othman's national record of
5,175 points set in 1981 in Manila," said KLAAA secretary S. Vegiyathuman.
National athletes G. Shanti and Yazid Imran were the clear winners in
the 100m and javelin but Shanti's 12.08 was way off the meet record of
11.6s.
RESULTS: Men's 100m: 1 Tan Kok Lim (SAAS) 10.94, 2 Mohamed Kamarudizaman
(SAAS) 11.16, 3 Arif Junet (Forces) 11.24; 800m: 1 Charles Suresh
(Telekom) 1:56.80, 2 Manimaran (Sel) 2:00.01, 3 Mahendran (Pah) 2:00.04;
400m hurdles: 1 Indra Yaman (Police) 58.50, 2 Nashrat Kamal (Jln Ipoh)
60.62, 3 Geoffrey Moore (Indi) 61.44; 5,000m: 1 M. Arumugam (Maybank)
15:06.74, 2 Ganesan (Pah) 15:15.28, 3 Niranthajodhi (Lac) 15:31.57
10,000 walk: 1 Shahrul Haizy (Telekom) 45:19.10, 2 N. Vinayagam (GEL)
46:26.48, K. Mahadevan (Telekom) 48:40.46; 50km walk: 1 K. Pushparajan
(Pah) 4:28.33; 4x400m: 1 SAAS 42.49, 2 Armed Forces 43.19, 3 Sentosa
47.41; Javelin: 1 Yazid Imran (Maybank) 67.06m; Pole vault: Rastam Nawi
(SAAS) 3.40m; Shot put: 1 Faizol Harun (SAAS) 13.37m, 2 Nik Azaid (SAAS)
13.34m, 3 Abdul Fatah (SAAS) 12.27m.
WOMEN: 100m: 1 G. Shanti (Maybank) 12.08, 2 Fan Sau Fai (Jln Ipoh), 3
Irnie Hazliza (SAAS) 13.30; 800m: 1 Norasheela Khalid (SAAS) 2:21.20, 2 T.
Jayanthi (GEL) 2:26.23, 3 K. Uma (MBA) 2:26.03; 5,000 walk: 1 Teoh Tay Wah
(Telekom);
4x400m: 1 SAAS a 50.54, 2 SAAS b 54.60, 3 Motorola 63.19; Long jump: 1
Fong Len Tze (SAAS) 5.62m, 2 Wan Noraini (SAAS) 5.43, 3 Norhaya Akmal
(SAAS) 5.20m; High jump: 1 Zuraini Hashim (SAAS) 1.59m, 2 Azlina Nasir
(SAAS) 1.56m, 3 Eik Nguk Moi (SAAS) 1.35m.
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