Day: August 4, 2024

Young national squash star Aira Azman defended her crown at the 2024 National Squash Championship after defeating her older sister Aifa at the National Sports Complex, Jalan Duta here today. In the showdown between the sisters in the final, defending champion Aira took only 29 minutes to dispatch Aifa, 11-7, 11-5, 10-12, 11-5 to win her second consecutive title. Aira beat Sehveetrraa Kumar 8-11, 11 -9, 11-5, 2-11, 11-3 in the semifinals to book her place in today’s final match. ‘Very happy to get to final with my sister. I think I play better mostly more to mentally for both

Malaysia’s professional men’s singles player Lee Zii Jia has accepted his semi-final defeat at the Paris 2024 Olympics and hopes to rebound during the bronze-medal play-off tomorrow. Speaking to Bernama after losing 14-21, 15-21 to reigning world champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena, Zii Jia indicated that he did not wish to dwell on the loss as he prepares to vie for the bronze medal against India’s Lakshya Sen tomorrow. ‘He played a very good match and handled things inside the court very well with very high confidence level. As you can see, his

The Sabah artistic gymnastics team aims to win the gold in the individual horizontal bar event at the 2024 Malaysia Games (SUKMA) in Sarawak this August. Coach Azri Omar said the target is based on the potential of Sabah gymnast Marvell Vincent Voo, who has the necessary experience in the event and is a junior national gymnast. “For now, we can target one individual gold medal in the horizontal bar as we have a junior national gymnast, Marvell, who is training in Bukit Jalil,’ he told Bernama at the Sabah artistic gymnastics team’s training session at Likas Sports Complex here

Finally, a medal to cherish for Malaysia at the 2024 Paris Olympics. National men’s doubles aces Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik clawed their way back from the brink of defeat to overcome Danes Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 16-21, 22-20, 21-19 to clinch bronze – Malaysia’s first medal at the Paris Olympics – today. The Malaysians, the 2022 world champions, started the match in jittery form and made many unforced errors to give away the first game in the bronze-medal playoff at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena. Just when the world number three seemed destined for defeat, with Astrup-Rasmussen needing one

Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) have advanced to the FA Cup final after defeating Kedah Darul Aman FC (KDA FC) with a 5-1 aggregate score following a 3-0 victory tonight. In the second leg of the semi-final at Sultan Ibrahim Stadium, JDT’s Muhammad Feroz Baharudin opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Bergson Gustavo Silveira Da Silva added a second goal in the 75th minute with a header from a corner by Juan Muniz Gallego. Gallego himself scored the third goal for JDT in the 82nd minute. KDA FC’s Ebenezer Assifuah had a goal disallowed by VAR for offside, while their