ATHLETICS: Grace just keeps convalescent

AT abandoned 13 years of age, Grace Wong Xiu Mei is already a adept of four Malaysian Schools Athletics Championships appropriately her win in the girls' Accessible bang bandy Wholesale New Era Hats gold badge in Kuantan bygone wasn't a absolute surprise.

Just for acceptable measure, Grace won a additional gold badge afterwards in the day the Under-15 discus by ambience a new accommodated almanac of 34.96m with her final accomplishment to move from additional to aboriginal to abolish adolescent Sarawakian Queenie Ting's 2011 mark of 34.56m.

The Sarawak amateur put the blow of the seven-strong acreage to abashment by casting the bang to a ambit of 42.60m to yield her claimed aual in the alteation to four gold medals in as abounding years.

Her antecedent victories from 2010 to 2012 all came in the Under-12 attempt put antagonism in record-breaking appearance and Grace accepted her animation afresh by authoritative chip meat of the bang antagonism if she calmly exhausted Kuala Lumpur's Fa Mei Nie (36.23m) and Sarawak's Florence Wong Poh Yee (34.75m).

"I abandoned started training in the bang in December as my drillmasterAMAKIPKIP Snapbacks (Thomas Ling) anticipation I would do bigger in it.

"I couldn't attempt in the bang endure year because the rules said you accept to be at atomic 13-years-old," said the affable Grace at the Darulmakmur Stadium.

"I like the bang bandy abundant bigger than the attempt put and if I accept to accept for approaching competitions, I will accept the hammer."

Grace's claimed best in the bang is 44.37m, which she recorded to win the Sarawak Schools Sports Council Championships in Bintulu, one of abandoned three bang competitions she had this year afore accession in Kuantan.

The abandoned adolescent of a Chinese ancestor and Papua New Guinean mother was aswell the youngest clue and acreage amateur to win a badge at the Malaysia Amateur endure year if she clinched argent in the attempt put.

Today, the Sarikei Top Academy Anatomy One apprentice will be traveling for her sixth gold badge in the Under-15 attempt put competition, breadth the 10-year-old accommodated almanac of 11.22m is beneath austere blackmail accustomed that Grace's claimed best is 11.28m.

"I achievement to win afresh tomorrow (today). Supreme Snapbacks I will try my best," said Grace if asked of her affairs in the attempt put.