Athletics head coach: Ten track and field gold medal target for Malaysia at Cambodia SEA Games within grasp

KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 — The bold and tempting target of 10 track and field gold medals at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia has been embraced as a realistic challenge, said national athletics head coach Manshahar Abdul Jalil.Manshahar said the coaching staff, which had been informed in advance of the target and has held discussions, would work hard to realise the ambition.

Based on the initial planning, Manshahar said five or six golds were targeted in the field events while the track athletes could potentially deliver four to five gold medals. Malaysian Athletics Federation president Datuk Seri Dr Shahidan Kassim yesterday set a target of 10 gold medals for the national athletics squad at the 2023 SEA Games scheduled to take place in the middle of next year, according to local media reports.

For the record, eight gold medals has been the most successful haul by the national athletics squad in the last 10 SEA Games notably in 2003, 2005 and 2017 while in the last two editions of 2019 and 2022, five gold medals were brought home.

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