SEA GAMES: NATIONAL MEN'S 4X100M TEAM BEATS NATIONAL RECORD, SECURES SILVER MEDAL

By Amiril Muttaqien Meketar

BANGKOK, Dec 15 (Bernama) -- The national men’s 4x100 metres (m) team shattered the national record to secure the silver medal at the 2025 South East Asian (SEA) Games here today.

Jonathan Nyepa, Danish Iftikhar Muhammad Roslee, Alif Iman Mohd Fahimi and Pengiran Aidil Auf Hajam set a new national record of 39.03 seconds (s), wiping out the old record of 39.09 s set in the 2021 SEA Games to finish second behind the Thai team at Suphachalasai Stadium today.

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The home team’s time of 38.28 s is a new SEA Games record, shattering their old record of 38.58 s set also in 2021. Indonesia took third place with a time of 39.51s.

Jonathan said the quartet did expect to set a new national record, taking into account the sprinters’ strengths.

“I have said that the Malaysian team is quite strong. So from the start, I have had an inkling that we would break the national record,” he told reporters, while Danish Iftikhar was thankful to have ended his SEA Games debut with three medals, today’s silver, the men’s 100 m and men’s 200 m bronze medals.

The Thais’ dominance also extended to the women’s 4x100 m relay, in which they took the gold with a time of 43.88 s, matching Vietnam’s SEA Games record set in 2017 in Kuala Lumpur.

Vietnam took the silver with a time of 43.91 s while the Philippines took the bronze (43.97 s).

In other developments, national men’s 800 m runner Wan Muhammad Fazri Wan Zahari won his second consecutive SEA Games bronze medal with a time of 1 minute 49.85 s, behind Lorana Hussein of the Philippines, who won the gold with a time of 1:48.80s and runner-up Thailand Joshua Robert Atkinson (1:49.24 s).

-- BERNAMA