{"id":15369,"date":"2022-10-30T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15369"},"modified":"2022-10-30T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:59:34","slug":"ironwoman-tahira-wins-powerman-asia-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15369","title":{"rendered":"‘Ironwoman’ Tahira wins Powerman Asia-Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 30 <\/strong>— National female endurance athlete Tahira Najmunisaa Muhammad performed brilliantly when she successfully dominated the Powerman Asia-Malaysia 2022 Women’s Classic category involving a distance of 80 kilometres (km) at Dataran Putrajaya here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hanoi SEA Games silver medallist created a sensation by recording a time of three hours, 14 minutes and 08 seconds to confirm first place, while Singaporean representative Xinhui Su (3:29.41s) and national athlete Chong Hui Xin (3:38.33s) had to be contented with silver and bronze respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the race, Tahira, 33, dubbed ‘ironwoman’, said it was\u00a0very competitive and was the best preparation ground for her to face the SEA Games in Cambodia next year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“I wasn’t really in the mood to race today, while riding my bike I crashed near KM10. But the weather was good, the challenge was good and Alhamdulillah (thanks to Allah) I got first place,”<\/em> she told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mother of four said her achievement today also proved that she is capable of performing better at the 2023 SEA Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meantime, Tahira hopes that the Ministry of Youth and Sports can highlight duathlon in the country in an effort to introduce more athletes of the sport on the international stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Muhammad Haziq Junaidy topped the men’s Short category with a time of 1:26.30s, while the second and third places respectively belonged to Carl Vincent Guttierrez from the Philippines (1:30.44s) and Thawatchai Aemaot from Thailand (1:34.39s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men’s elite category was won by 2015 and 2016 duathlon world champion, Matt Smith from Australia, who clocked 2:40.58s, while Saud Alzaabi (2:40.58s) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Amin Saghaeidehkordi (2:44.55s) from Iran completed the podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s Powerman Asia-Malaysia saw a total of 4,300 participants from 35 countries, thus gaining the title of the World’s Biggest Duathlon, which was previously held by London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s competition saw participants race according to the distance set for their respective categories with a running-cycling-running format,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time the Asia-Malaysia Powerman was held was in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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