GUANGZHOU, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- Following an analysis of how athletes who took part in the Asian Games fared:
ATHLETICS
One of the worst results as Roslinda Samsu (pole vault) and Noraseela Khalid (400m hurdles) failed to maintain or better their 2006 Doha Asian Games performances.
Roslinda failed to match her silver medal feat four years ago in Guangzhou, after managing just a height of 4.00m compared with 4.35m in Doha while Noraseela who has been training overseas for almost a decade, finished fifth in her 400m hurdles race and failed to emulate her bronze achievement.
National high jump ace Lee Hup Wei was another flop as he could only manage to clear 2.15m and finish in ninth place although he has a personal best of 2.27m which was incidentally the gold medal winning height.
The women's 4x100m quartet comprising Yee Yi Leng, Nurul Sarah Abdul Kadir, Norjannah Hafiszah Jamaludin and Siti Zubaidah Adabi finished sixth with a time of 45.54s despite clocking 45.33s to set a new National record recently.
BADMINTON
Shuttlers failed to match their one gold, three bronze medal feat in Doha by finishing with two silver medals through the men's doubles pair of Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong and Datuk Lee Chong Wei from the men's singles.
Kien Keat-Boon Heong lost to Indonesia's Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan in the final while Chong Wei lost to Lin Dan of China.
The women shuttlers were a complete whitewash.
Badminton have been included in the '2012 Road to London' programme, an ambitious target of winning the country's first ever gold medal in the Olympics. CYCLING
Much was expected of the track cyclists to deliver but only a gold and silver from Mohd Azizulhasni Awang and Josiah Ng through the Keirin event to show while Mohd Azizulhasni failed to make the podium in his 200m sprint which was his pet event.
Track cyclists are currently training in Melbourne, Australia and are also under the '2012 Road to London' programme. BILLIARD SPORT
Equalled the silver medal performance in Doha, albeit in contrasting events.
In Doha, the silver came from the women's event through Esther Kwan in the 9-ball pool while veteran Ibrahim Amir clinched the silver in Guangzhou from the 8-ball pool.
KARATE
Karate, the trusted medal contributor in any major sporting event, lived up to their billing by delivering two gold, two silver and a bronze.
Ku Jin Keat (men's Kata) and R. Puvaneswaran (men's Kumite Under-55kg) kicked their way to gold medals while Jamalliah Jamaluddin (women's Kumite Above-68kg), G. Yamini (women's Kumite Under-61kg) won silver and Lim Lee Lee (women's Kata) added the bronze.
In Doha, the karate squad contributed four silver and three bronze.
SEPAK TAKRAW
The gold medal continued to elude the sepaktakraw squad as they came home with two silver medals and equalled their two silver medal feat in Doha.
Overall performance was below par compared with the Thais who were simply a class above.
WUSHU
Wushu achieved their target of one gold medal when defending champion Chai Fong Ying retained her gold medal in the women's combined Taijijian/Taijiquan event Taijijian.
Tai Cheau Xuen contributed a bronze from Nanquan/Nandao but the overall medals won fell one bronze short of the Doha haul.
SHOOTERS
Shooters continued to fire blanks in the Asian Games and the hunt for gold medals continued.
The only contribution from the shooting squad was a bronze by Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi from the women's 10m Air Rifle.
SQUASH
Squash was the highest contributor of gold medals with three, from the men's and women's individual events and the women's team event.
The three gold medals came from Datuk Nicol Ann David (women's singles), Mohd Azlan Iskandar (men's singles) and the women's team of Nicol, Low Wee Wern, Delia Arnold and Sharon Wee.
The men's team picked up a silver after losing to Pakistan in the final while Ong Beng Hee (men's singles) and Low Wee Wern (women's singles) picked a bronze respectively.
SAILING
Malaysian sailors failed to match the one gold medal feat achieved in Doha by Ruffina Tan in the women's Optimist but the sailors sailed home from Guangzhou with two silver and a bronze.
TENPIN BOWLING
Bitter sweet performance by keglers as the men were in splendid form while the women failed miserably.
Alex Liew was the toast of the bowling team as he won the men's All-Events and later partnered Adrian Ang to win the men's doubles gold.
The bowling team came home with three gold medals from Doha through the men's trio, women's singles and women's team.
EQUESTRIAN
Equestrian managed to equal their one silver, two bronze medal achievement in Doha, although the medals came from different events.
Quzandria Nur Mahamad Fathil stepped out her brother Qabil Ambak's shadows to clinch the silver from the individual Dressage while Qabil had to be contended with the bronze.
Another bronze came from the team Dressage.
DIVING
By far the best performance in the history of the games as divers put up a splashing performance although there were no gold medals to show since the Chinese swept all the 10 gold medals at stake with their array of world class divers.
It was a far superior medal haul when compared with the one silver and three bronze in Doha as divers in Guangzhou fished out four silver and five bronze medals from the pool. GYMNASTICS
No medals to show but young gymnasts put on a heart warming performance to top the list among Asean countries on the points list.
HOCKEY
Achieved a historic feat by making it to the final for the first time since the country's participation in the 1958 Tokyo Asian Games in Japan.
Beat pre-match favourite India but lost 0-2 to Pakistan in the final and lost out on an automatic place for the 2012 London Olympics.
FOOTBALL
Bogged by injuries and suspension but managed to made it to the second round of the competition for the first time in 32 years.
Coach K. Rajagobal's boys however, lost to defending champion Iran, 3-1 .
-- BERNAMA
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