KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 (Bernama) — Host Selangor have secured greater than half of the 80 gold medals focused of their bid to develop into general champions of the 2026 Malaysia Video games (SUKMA) after the fifth day of the biennial sporting occasion at the moment.
Based mostly on the general medal tally as of 10 pm at the moment, Selangor, essentially the most profitable contingent in SUKMA historical past with 9 general titles, strengthened their place on the high with 41 gold, 42 silver and 30 bronze medals, forward of five-time champions Terengganu in second place.
Terengganu have collected 31 gold, 29 silver and 24 bronze medals, whereas Federal Territories full the highest three with 29 gold, 25 silver and 22 bronze.
Host swimmer Eliza Tan Ai Shen stole the highlight at the moment after changing into the primary athlete to interrupt a nationwide file at this version of the SUKMA.
Making the feat much more spectacular, the 19-year-old broke the nationwide file twice in a single day to win the ladies’s 100-metre freestyle gold on the Darul Ehsan Aquatic Centre in Shah Alam.
Swimming in lane 4, Eliza broke her personal nationwide file with a brand new time of 56.78 seconds, leaving Perak’s Nadia Lim (57.67s) and Melaka’s Yeow Lynna Yi Jing (58.2s) to accept silver and bronze respectively.
Eliza had earlier erased Nadia’s nationwide file of 57.11s, set on the Asian Age Group Aquatics Championships in Bangkok final July, after clocking 57.03s within the heats.
In the meantime, Federal Territories made historical past by profitable their first-ever males’s workforce badminton gold after defeating Penang 3-1, whereas Selangor efficiently defended the ladies’s workforce gold for the second consecutive version after beating Penang 3-0 on the Setia Metropolis Conference Centre in Setia Alam.
Johor, in the meantime, continued their dominance in athletics for a 3rd consecutive version after the game concluded on the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Stadium in Serdang at the moment, following the beginning of competitors final Sunday.
The southern contingent took house 9 gold, eight silver and 5 bronze medals, edging Terengganu in second place (7-3-3), whereas Federal Territories emerged because the third-best workforce (6-1-3).
The ultimate day of athletics additionally noticed Penang finish a 28-year await the lads’s 4x400m relay gold, whereas setting a brand new SUKMA file with a time of three minutes 11.84 seconds, erasing Johor’s earlier file of three:12.35 set on the final version.
Selangor needed to accept silver in 3:13.52, whereas Kedah took bronze in 3:14.09.
— BERNAMA
BERNAMA supplies up-to-date genuine and complete information and knowledge that are disseminated through BERNAMA Wires; www.bernama.com; BERNAMA TV on Astro 502, unifi TV 631 and MYTV 121 channels and BERNAMA Radio on FM93.9 (Klang Valley), FM107.5 (Johor Bahru), FM107.9 (Kota Kinabalu) and FM100.9 (Kuching) frequencies.
Observe us on social media :
Fb : @bernamaofficial, @bernamatv, @bernamaradio
Twitter : @bernama.com, @BernamaTV, @bernamaradio
Instagram : @bernamaofficial, @bernamatvofficial, @bernamaradioofficial
TikTok : @bernamaofficial
