Bringing The Standard Up: MUDS 08 Open's Category Winners at UKM Eyed To Be The Best Among The Rising Du-ers

Jusery Gani, strongly but calmly came forward as the Men's Open category winner in the First Leg of MUDS 08 at UKM

Mariana Mohammad once again prevailed as one of the country's top duathletes when she comfortably ruled the Women's Open category.

The Victorious Teams of MUDS 08 First Leg at UKM: The exhilaration is heating up

P2K PowerBar team, is set to repeat their tremendous showing after conquering no. 1 spot in the Men's Relay category

UPNM 's Mejar Kalam Apprentice 6 team, also proudly came first in the Mixed Team category

Wonderful consolation for the new team from UTM as they marked their emergence by finishing second in the Mixed Team category. Well earned and way to go!

Stats - Duathlon More Popular Than You Think

First of the duathlon is more popular than you think. The first leg didn't see the highest possible participation because the PD triathlon was on the next day, and the more hardcore types had headed down to PD to train in advance. We're expecting more of you to turn up at UM this Saturday.

Here's the tale of the tape:

Men's university – 62

Women's university – 10

Men's Open – 91

Women's Open – 12

Men's Relay – 8 teams

Mixed Relay – 10 - teams

Media – 8

TOTAL Individuals = 183

TOTAL Teams = 18

TOTAL participants = 237

But where were the women? The ladies who turned up did great but where were the rest of you?

And the sign-up for the team relay - its much easier and a lot more fun than it appears.

Results - Men's University

Ooooo...the drama; the ecstasy of victory and the agony of defeat; and the pull-out-the-hair-by-the-roots moment of realising that you've taken the wrong way to the transition area. As Chan Juan Shen of UPNM and Ong Wei Xiang of UTM found out - they earned a 4 minute penalty and still managed to place in the top five.

See what you're missing by not being at the finish line? Put this in your scheduler for July 26 now - University Malaya - 8am to 10.15am - MUDS 2008. Must be there.

This does not in any way detract from Mohd Suhaimie Tolek's win - he was that fast!

5 A016* Chan Juan Shen ‐ UPNM Malaysia 0:49:41
4 A056* Ong Wei Xiang ‐ UTM Malaysia 0:49:35
3 A045 Mohd Syahidan Alias ‐ UiTM Malaysia 0:48:44
2 A049 Muhammad Farid Abd Fatah ‐ UPNM Malaysia 0:48:35
1 A044 Mohd Suhaimie Tolek ‐ UTM Malaysia 0:47:12

* Time Penalty of 4 minutes added for taking wrong route into transition area.

Full results at www.duathlonseries.com.my.

Results - Women's University

Here are the results for the Women's University:

5 B206 Nuazuwa Amat Puad ‐ UPNM Malaysia 1:07:45
4 B203 Nazihah Abdul Ghani ‐ UTM Malaysia 1:06:34
3 B201 Kong Lai Tee ‐ UTAR Malaysia 1:05:10
2 B205 Nor Juliana Ali ‐ IIUM Malaysia 0:56:04
1 B211 Stephanie Chok ‐ UiTM Malaysia 0:54:21

Full results at www.duathlonseries.com.my. Pix up later.

Results - Men's Open

Race to the finish - Jusery and Krishna battle it out - only 3 seconds separate the two

Neobike has to get back to work and has asked me to continue where she left off. Here are more results this time for the men's open:


5 C385 Sharul Ambri Mohd Noor ‐ 0:48:50
4 C397 Badrol Hisyam Abu Bakar 0:47:40
3 C371 Ong Soon Seng 0:47:21
2 C337 Krishna Kumar Jayaram 0:47:05
1 C331 Jusery Gani 0:47:02

The timing for the top two was very close - and darn exciting to watch. Even if you don't participate get on down to UM on July 26 to check the sporting drama at the finish line and throughout the race. It's way more exciting than sleeping late.

Full results at duathlonseries.com.my.

Pix can be seen on the picasaweb photostream - earlier post by Sam.

Results- Women's Open (first leg)

Mariana out of the transition area - she finished 10 minutes ahead of the rest of the women's open field

Women's Open Results for First leg (UKM)

5 D503 Kashimah Kasiri 1:07:29

4 D505 Lily Kuan 1:05:22

3 D501 Azlinawati Husain 1:02:26

2 D504 Lee Yan Neo 0:59:12

1 D507 Mariana Mohammad 0:49:12

Hmmmm...to those who are new to reading results - the number 5 to 1 is the placing. The DXXX is the race number, followed by the name and finally the time taken to complete.

Full results at www.duathlonseries.com.my. Pix up soon.