OCM Weekly Highlight - 08 November 2009

OCM Weekly Highlights 

8th November 2009

OCM Official Website: www.olympic.org.my

Coming Events

7th OCM - Tan Sri Alex Lee Charity Golf 2009 – 9th November 2009 at Saujana Golf and Country Club, Subang. 

6th OCM Executive Board Meeting – 10th November 2009 at 4.30 p.m. at OCM Board Room, First Floor, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur.

Opening of SEA Games Federation Coordination Office – 11th November 2009 at Bangkok, Thailand. 

Guangzhou XVI Asian Games 2009 Chefs de Mission Seminar – 11th to 13th November 2009 at Guangshou, China. 

45th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup 2009 – 13th and 20th November 2009 at MIBC, Melaka

OCM Women and Sport Dinner 2009 – 18th November 2009 at OCM Indoor Sports Arena, Level 3, OCM Indoor Sports Complex, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur.

Visit of IOC Evaluation Committee for the Host City of 125th IOC Session in 2013 – 19th and 20th November 2009.

Asia Sports 2009 – 23rd to 25th November 2009, Berjaya Times Square Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

SEA Games Federation Meetings – 6th to 8th December 2009 at Vientiane, Laos.

25th SEA Games 2009 – 9th to 18th December 2009, Vientiane, Laos.

KFC MYA-MILO National Championship – 6th to 10th December 2009 at Langkawi

IODA Asian Sailing Championship 2009 – 12th December 2009 at Langkawi.

MAJOR SPORTS EVENTS 2010

XIII Sukan Malaysia 2010 – 28th May to 6th June 2010, Melaka.

XIX Commonwealth Games Baton Relay – 12th & 13th June 2010, Kuala Lumpur.

1st Youth Olympic Games 2010 – 14th to 26th August 2010, Singapore.

Delhi XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 – 3rd to 14th October 2010, Delhi, India

Guangzhou 16th Asian Games 2010 – 12th to 27th November 2010, Guangzhou, China

News Items

45th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup

45th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup will be held November 13-20 at MIBC, Melaka. This is the second time Malaysian plays host to the 45th years old annual event which is expected to have participants from 96 countries sending one man and one woman (national champions of their respective country) bowlers. It is one of the biggest participating individual sport events in the world. Malaysia’s representatives this year would be Zumazran Zulkifli in the men’s division, and Siti Safiyah in the women’s division. Zulmazran Zulkifli finished 3rd last year at Mexico. 

The official practice is on Nov 15 in the morning before the Opening Ceremony and Welcome Dinner in the evening. The tournament rolls off on Nov 16th Nov. 2009.

3rd Asian Indoor Games 2009

The 3rd Asian Indoor Games 2009 was officially closed on 8th November 2009, by Mr. Timothy Fok, Vice President of the Olympic Council of Asia at the newly constructed Hanoi Indoor Athletics Palace. The 4th Asian Indoor Games will include the Asian Martial Arts Games and will be held in 2013. The host for the 4th Asian Indoor Games has not be selected. 

At the 3rd Asian Indoor Games, Malaysia competed in 8 sports at the 3rd Asian Indoor Games and managed to achieve its best ever results with 3 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 8 gold medals, to finish in 15th out of 43 NOCs in the overall medal tally.  Malaysia’s medalists are as follows:

Gold Medals

Southern Lion Team Optional Exercise

Pencak Silat – Mohd Al Jufferi Jamari – Men’s Class E (50kg to 55kg)

Pencak Silat – Ahmad Saiful Lubis Shamsuddin – Men’s Singles Tunggal

Silver medals

Pencaik Silat – Mahani Bakri – Women’s Class B (50kg to 55kg)

Northern Lion Team Optional Exercise

Dragon Team Optional Exercise

Tenpin Bowling – Men’s Team – Kang Bo Long, Tong Juinn Chuan, Muhamad Syafiq Ridhwan Abdul Malek, Kelvin Keong Yuin Soon

Tenpin Bowling – Women’s Doubles – Fatin Syazliana Adi Nasution & Sin Li Jane

Bronze medals

Tenpin Bowling – Women’s Doubles – Koh Suet Len & Tengku Emanina Laily Tengku Zahri

Tenpin Bowling – Women’s Team – Fatin Syazliana Adi Nasution, Sin Li Jane, Koh Suet Len & Tengku Emanina Laily Tengku Zahri

Pencak Silat – Muhammad Faizul M Nasir –Men’s Class B (50kg. to 55 kg)

Pencak Silat – Amir Ikram Rahim – Men’s Class C (55kg to 60 Kg)

Pencak Silat – Azrul Abdullah – Men’s Class E (80kg. to 85Kg)

Pencak Silat – Siti Rahmah Mohamed Nasir – Women’s Class D (60kg. to 65 kg.)

Pencak Silat, Women’s Team Regu – Noor Marina Kamaruddin, Siti Nur Eyisah Zainal Abidin & Suzy Mohd Sulaiman

Petanque – Mohamad Syafiq Abdul Razak - Men’s Singles