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Archery: Marbawi confident of giving a good show

KUALA LUMPUR: National archer Mohd Marbawi Sulaiman remains optimistic and confident of his chances in the Asian Grand Prix despite remaining idle from competitions after the Beijing Olympics last August.

Marbawi together with Cheng Chu Sian and Wan Mohd Khalmizan Wan Abd Aziz are down to compete in the first leg of the GP in Bangkok from Feb 18-24.

“Though I have not participated in any major competitions since Beijing, I am confident of my ability. I have continued training at the National Sports Complex,” he said.

Marbawi added that he had been following the training programme prepared by national coach Lee Jae-hyung and it was aimed at keeping the performance of the archers at a top level even after the Olympics.

“In fact our targets and scores have improved and are more consistent of late,” he said.

Marbawi added that intensive training would resume after the Bangkok competition to prepare for the World Championships in Ulsan in September.

He also said that the announcement by the Cabinet Committee for Sports early this month to include archery among sports to be given special attention under the 2012 London Olympics programme was a very timely one.

“We will try to give our very best and concentrate on producing the desired results in international competitions,” said Marbawi.

Besides archery, badminton and cycling had been identified as the sports with strong potentials to bring in medals for the country, including gold, at the London Olympics.

Malaysia have only won two silver and two bronze medals in the Olympic history since making their first appearance in the Games in Melbourne in 1956. All the medals came from badminton, which made their debut in the Olympic programme in Barcelona in 1992.

At the Beijing Olympics, Marbawi, Chu Sian and Mohd Khalmizan lost to Italy in the recurve team quarter-finals but set a new national record of 1,993 points. Mohd Khalmizan’s score of 674 was also an new individual national record.

The best finisher in the individual event at the Beijing Games was Chu Sian, who made it to the quarter-finals. — Bernama

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