HANGZHOU: Tears of joy from National wushu queen Tan Cheong Min provided a silver lining to the Malaysian camp on the third day of competitions in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games yesterday and lifted the gloom surrounding the Malaysian contingent in the land of the Great Wall.
After two dry days, the Malaysian contingent won two silver and four bronze medals on the third day of competition in Hangzhou.
Cheong Min whose career had nose-dived to an all-time low five years ago, especially after losing out on a medal in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, made amends by contributing a silver medal from the women’s nanquan and nandao event to wipe off the disappointment in Jakarta.
There was another silver medal at the Arena of Valor where the E-sport team created their own history by making it to the final in their maiden appearance where they lost 0-2 to host China.
E-sports is being contested in the Asian Games for the first time and with the silver medal in the bag, the e-sport team will be dreaming of competing in the Olympics one day.
Earlier in the day, the sailing team contributed the country’s first medal of any colour, when sailor Asnawi Iqbal Adam finished in the bronze medal position in the men’s ILCA 4 at the Ningbo Xiangshan Sailing Centre while Tengku Nurani Ezaty Tengku Khairudeen added another bronze from the women’s Windsurfing RSX.
However, the medal count for the two bronze medals will only reflect in the medal tally after the prize presentation today.
The third bronze medal of the day came from the women’s track cycling trio, Nurul Aliana Syafika Azizan, Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri and Anis Amira Rosidi from the women’s Team Sprint which was also the country’s first since women’s track cycling was included in the Asian Games programme during the 2014 Incheon Asian Games in South Korea.
The fourth bronze came from the newly minted track cycling trio of Umar Hasbullah, Muhammad Ridwan Sahrom and Muhammad Fadhil Mohd Zonis, who had entered the competition without the country’s ace cyclist Datuk Mohd Azizulhasni Awang who was part of the team that won a silver from the men’s Team Sprint at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.
The Malaysian camp’s wait for a golden moment in Hangzhou could come to an end today through Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif who will see action in the 12th and final race of the women’s ICLA 6 competition today.
The 25-year-old sailor who managed only a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, is currently leading the pack by 12 points and looks set to sail home for the gold today since a top five finish in the final race would be enough to win the gold.
Apart from Nur Shazrin, medals hopes remain high in equestrian where Mohd Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil will be trying to defend the silver medal he had won in dressage while wushu, shooting, track cycling, swimming and basketball continue to offer medal hopes.
Malaysian athletes who will be in action today (Sept 27:
EQUESTRIAN (Tonglu Equestrian Centre)
Qualification
Dressage Individual Intermediate 1: Mohd Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil – 8am
SHOOTING (Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre)
Qualification – Phase 2
Skeet 50-metre (m) Men’s Individual: Joseph Lee Joon Kit – 9am
Qualification
50m Rifle 3 Position Women’s Individual: Nur Suryani Mohamed Taib & Alia Husna Budruddin – 9am
25m Pistol Women’s Individual – Rapid Fire Stage: Alia Sazana Azahari & Bibiana Ng – 9am
Final
50m Rifle 3 Position Women’s Individual – 12pm
25m Pistol Women’s Individual – Rapid Fire Stage – 2.30pm
Skeet 50m Men’s Individual – 3.30pm
WUSHU (Xiaoshan Guali Sports Centre)
Final
Men’s Daoshu: Clement Ting Su Wei – 9am
Women’s Jianshu: Pang Pui Yee – 9.40am
Men’s Gunshu: Clement Ting Su Wei – 2.30pm
Women’s Qiangshu: Pang Pui Yee – 3.35pm
CYCLING – TRACK (Chun’an Jieshou Sports Centre Velodrome)
Qualifying
Men’s Sprint: Muhammad Ridwan Sahrom & Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom – 10am
Women’s Keirin: Anis Amira Rosidi & Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri – 10.26am
1/16 Finals
Men’s Sprint – 10.44 am
Repechage – Heat
Women’s Keirin – 11.08 am
1/16 Finals Repechages – Heat
Men’s Sprint – 11.20 am
Semi-final
Women’s Keirin – 3pm
1/8 Finals – Heat
Men’s Sprint – 3.12pm
1/8 Finals – Repechages
Men’s Sprint – 4pm
Final (7-12)
Women’s Keirin – 4.06pm
Final (1-6)
Women’s Keirin – 4.12pm
SQUASH (Hangzhou Olympic Sport Centre Squash Court)
Group stage
Women’s Team: Malaysia vs Macao – 10am
Men’s Team: Malaysia vs Japan – 12.30pm
Malaysia vs Thailand – 7pm
SWIMMING (Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Aquatic Sports Arena)
Heats
Men’s 100m Butterfly: Lim Yin Chuen & Bryan Leong Xin Ren – 10.14am
Men’s 200m Freestyle: Khiew Hoe Yean & Lim Yin Chuen – 10.42am
Women’s 100m Breaststroke: Phee Jinq En – 11.04am
Finals
Men’s 100m Butterfly – 7.36pm
Men’s 200m Freestyle – 7.48pm
Women’s 100m Breaststroke – 8.13pm
SAILING (Ningbo Xiangshan Sailing Centre)
Medal race
Women’s Single-Handed Dinghy ILCA 6: Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif – 11am
Men’s Single-Handed Dinghy ILCA 7: Khairulnizam Mohd Affendy – 12pm
MIND SPORTS – ESPORTS (China Hangzhou E-Sports Centre)
Quarter-final 3
League of Legends: Malaysia vs Taiwan – 2pm
SEPAK TAKRAW (Jinhua Sports Centre Gymnasium)
Semi-final
Men’s Team Regu: Malaysia vs Laos – 2pm
BASKETBALL 3X3 (Deqing Geographic Information Park Basketball Court)
Round robin
Men’s: Malaysia vs China – 7.50pm
Women’s: Malaysia vs Thailand – 8.40pm
Medal tally after day 3 (Sept 26)
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| China | 53 | 29 | 13 |
| South Korea | 14 | 16 | 19 |
| Japan | 8 | 20 | 19 |
| Uzbekistan | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| India | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Thailand | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Iran | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| …MALAYSIA | 0 | 2 | 2 |
– BERNAMA
