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Thailand breaks Southeast Asian 4x100m records

Thailand set new Southeast Asian (SEA) Games records in both the men's and women's 4x100m relays on the track yesterday.

The host nation won the men's event in 38.95 -- 0.16 faster than the mark it set eight years ago -- while the women won gold with a time of 44.00 -- three-tenths of a second quicker than its record set at the previous SEA Games two years ago.

Henry Dagmil of the Philippines broke his own games long jump record with his first leap of 7.87 and won gold, while Malaysia's Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian shaved a hundredth of a second off the 110 meters hurdle mark by winning in 13.91.

In other athletics events, Siri Shahida Abdullah of Malaysia defended her women's hammerthrow title, Dedeh Erawati of Indonesia won the women's 100m hurdles, and Wansawang Sawasdee of Thailand took the men's discus.

As he did in the 5,000m, Thailand's Boonthung Srisung beat Julius Sermona of the Philippines in the 10,000m.

In weightlifting, Indonesia's Sandow Waldemar Nasution -- complete with multiple piercings, tattoos and smoking between lifts -- won gold in the men's 77kg class with a world-competitive aggregate of 341kg.

In the women's, Thailand's Khanittha Petanang won the 69kg class and Vietnam's Thi Thiet Nguyen the 63kg event.

In the first day of action at the velodrome, Indonesia's Uyun Muzizah edged Thailand's Jutatip Maneephan by four hundredths of a second to claim gold in the women's 500m time trial.

Singapore won double gold in the singles table tennis, as Ning Gao in the men's and Yuegu Wang in the women's won their respective finals in straight games. Singapore has invested heavily in its table tennis program in the hope of upsetting the powerhouse Chinese in next year's Olympics.
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