KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 (Bernama) -- Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) celebrated a sprint double when Danish Iftikhar Muhammad Roslee and Fatin Ilyana Mat Nayan emerged victorious in the men's and women's 100 metres (m) finals at the 2026 Higher Education Institutions Sports Games (SUKIPT) here today.
National sprinter Danish Iftikhar clocked 10.36 seconds (s) to better the Games record of 10.44s he had set in Heat 7 yesterday.
Politeknik Malaysia's Muhammad Airiel Iskandar Rusli (10.63s) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)'s Ahmad Amir Aiman Mohd Kamar (10.65s) took silver and bronze respectively.
"Alhamdulillah, I'm glad that I broke the meet record in the heats yesterday and improved on it in the final today,” said Danish Iftikhar.
The 19-year-old Malaysia Games (SUKMA) sprint king will now turn his attention to the Oman Athletics Grand Prix, which begins on Saturday (Sept 5), before heading for the Sept 19-Oct 4 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Fatin Ilyana, meanwhile, set a new personal best time of 11.93s en route to winning the women's 100m gold medal, leaving Nurul Wardatul Huwaida Mohd Hamka (12.13s) and Nur Izzati Eliana Suhaidi (12.23s) to settle for silver and bronze respectively.
"I am proud of myself for having set a new personal best as I had targeted doing just that,” said Fatin Ilyana, whose previous personal best of 11.96s was set in 2022.
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