Nur Suryani shoots down junior record

10/11/2001

NUR SURYANI Taibi of Perak, 19, was in smashing form at the Subang
Shooting Range yesterday when she cracked the national juniors record
enroute to a three gold and a silver medal haul.
On Thursday, she equalled the national juniors air rifle record with 391
points.
Yesterday she rewrote the smallbore rife three position record with 566
points in the SportExcel-NSC-NSAM Junior Champion-ships. The old mark of
565 was done by Lim I Vern of Selangor in April this year.
She then won gold in the Tun Tan Siew Sin Trophy small bore rifle three
position by firing 660.7 points. She upstaged her more illustrious team-
mate Nurul Hudda Baharin, who finished seventh with 558 points, and later
withdrew from the final round because her arm started giving her problems.
Nurul fractured her arm just before the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth
Games and the old injury forced her to withdraw yesterday.
Felix Ho, former national coach and now coaching the Perak squad, said
Nur Suryani has started making progress and her future looks bright.
"She helped the Kuala Lumpur Sea Games team win a silver and a gold, and
today (yesterday) she consolidated her position for the 2002 Commonwealth
Games with a steady hand. If she continues her form in the other
qualifiers, she will make the Games squad," said Ho.
Nur Suryani's other gold was from the Small Bore Rifle Three Position
team event in the junior category and her silver was from Small Bore Rifle
Three Position team event in the senior category.
RESULTS - Tun Tan Siew Sin Trophy: Men's Air Rifle Individual: 1 Mohamed
Zainul Akmal (Kel) 687.2, 2 Mohamed Emran Zakaria (Police) 683.4, 3 Azhari
Abdullah (Police) 677.7.
Standard Pistol Individual: 1 Leong Jia Chyuan (Sel) 550, 2 Baharuddin
Hashim (Kel) 548, 3 Marzuki Man (Police) 541.
Standard Pistol Team: 1 Police - Marzuki Man (541), Abdul Rahim Rajuli
(538), Darham Ali (531); 2 Kelantan - Baharuddin Hashim (548), Zakaria
Ishal (538), Mohamed Saipuddin Yusoff (482); 3 Armed Forces - Zulkifli
Ismail (531), Nazaruddin Galok (521), Mohamed Sany Ghazali (514).
Double Trap Individual: 1 Edward Khor Seng Chye (JCT) 154, 2 Ong Chee
Kheng (Sel) 146, 3 Raymond Yap (JCT) 141.
Women's small bore rifle three position: 1 Nur Suryani Taibi (Perak)
660.7 points, 2 Nordalilah Abu Bakar (Police) 658.8, 3 Sarihati Awang
Akhbar (Police) 6550.0.
Small Bore Rifle Three Position Team: 1 Police - Ann Chew (543), Nurul
Hudda Baharin 558, Nordalilah Abu Bakar (569); 2 Perak - Nur Suryani Taibi
(566), Nur Husna Sharuddin (530), Rohayu Nayan (524); 3 Sarawak -
Veronica Eileen (513), Betty Tapeh (544), Imabel Yvonne Tiong (545).
SportExcel-NSC-MILO-NSAM Championships: Men's air rifle team: 1 Mohamed
Zainul Akmal (Kel) 587, 2 Ivan Jayavenkatesh (Sel) 572, 3 Wang Wen Chuen
(Sel) 571.
Air Rifle Team: 1 Selangor - Ivan Jayavenkatesh (572), Wang Wen Chuen
(571), Ong Poh Teck (570); 2 Kelantan - Mohamed Zainul Akmal (587),
Khairul Nizam Sidek (566), Asri Mohamed (553); 3 Armed Forces - Mohamed
Emran Zakaria (581), Ahmad Yaacob (561), Ismail Diran (557).
Standard Pistol Individual: 1 Leong Jia Chyuan (Sel) 550, 2 Nicholas Aw
Kai Foong (sel) 506, 3 Hafiza Adzha (Perak) 505.
Standard Pistol Team: 1 Selangor - Leong Jia Chyuan (550), Nicholas Aw
Kai Foong (506), Omar Sheriff (489); 2 Johor - Zulhakim Aman (505),
Mohamed Radi Wahad (456), Mohamed Syawal Othman (432).
Women's Small Bore Rifle Three Position Team: 1 Perak - Nur Suryani
Taibi (566, national juniors record), Nur Husna Sharuddin (530), Rohayu
Nayan (524); 2 Pahang - Nasrena Nazaruddin (535), Siti Nurazreen Eliana
(533), Norain Ibrahim (528); 3 Sarawak - Imabel Yvonne Tiong (545), Sorea
Tiror (522), Veronica Eileen (513).
Small Bore Rifle Three Position Individual: 1 Nur Suryani Taibi (Perak)
566, 2 Imabel Yvonne Tiong (Sarawak) 545, 3 Mariani Rafali (kel) 541.
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