Muhammad Azeem, Shereen Vallabouy Aim To Make History At Paris 2024

Sprinter Muhammad Azeem Mohd Fahmi and athlete Shereen Samson Vallabouy are in the running to earn a single athletics slot for the 2024 Paris Olympics after meeting the technical qualifying standards set by the Malaysian Athletics Federation (MAF).

Muhammad Azeem, 20, is eyeing the men’s 100m after clocking 10.24s at the championship in the US last April.

The Perak-born sprinter, who won the bronze medal in the 100m at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, needs to improve on his personal best time to earn an automatic ticket to Paris.

The qualifying time limit for the men’s 100m is 10s or a place in the top 56 in world ranking to earn an automatic ticket.

Meanwhile, Shereen, who is more synonymous with the women’s 400m, has shown an encouraging season when she renewed her national record with a time of 51.79s at the championships in the USA, earlier this month.

The 25-year-old athlete, who continues the legacy of her mother Josephine Mary who is a former national runner, also created a sensation when she won the 400m bronze at the 2022 Asian Games in China and also helped the women's 4x100m quartet bring home the bronze from the Hangzhou Games.

Her ability to excel in sprint events cannot be denied after making history by erasing a 25-year-old national record in the women’s 200m with a record time of 23.33s in the US last year.

In the 100m, which she rarely participates in, Shereen recorded a personal best of 11.87s at the championships in the US last April, which is 0.37s behind G. Shanti's old national record while the qualification time to Paris 2024 for women's 100m is 11.07s.

After failing to clock 50.95s which is the Paris 2024 qualification mark for the women's 400m, Shereen now has to rely on the latest update in world rankings which is seen as quite difficult and thus she has to hope for MAF consideration.

If selected for Paris 2024, she will most definitely compete in the women’s 100m (Olympics women’s 100m record is 10.61s by Elaine-Thompson-Herah in 2021) which means she has to change her training routine now to focus more on the sprint, besides having to repay the trust of the national selectors by at least erasing the national record.

The MAF is expected to submit the names of their chosen single athlete to the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) by the beginning of July at the latest.

For the record, former sprint champion Watson Nyambek was the last national male athlete to compete in the 100m at the Olympic Games at the 2000 Sydney edition while Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli and Azreen Nabila Alias ​​competed in the women’s category respectively at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 editions.

The Paris Olympics are scheduled to take place from July 26 to Aug 11.

-- BERNAMA

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