Sprinter Azeem's first Olympics outing ends in heats

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There was no new national mark as national sprinter Mohd Azeem Fahmi ended his campaign in the men's 100m at the Paris Olympics with a time of 10.45s. He finished last in heat two at the Stade de France on Saturday (Aug 3).  Read more at https://shorturl.at/lnfkB  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00National sprinter Mohamed Azim Fahmy finished last in the round one heats of the 100m event

00:07in the Paris Olympic Games.

00:10The 20-year-old clocked 10.45 seconds in Heat 2 at Stade de France on Saturday.

00:16The time was 0.03 seconds slower than the time that he clocked in his preliminaries

00:22race earlier.

00:26The race was won by Kenya's 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Ferdinand Omanyala with

00:33a time of 10.08 seconds.

00:36In the preliminaries, Azim finished second with a time of 10.42 seconds behind Gambia's

00:42Ibrahima Kanara, who won the race with a time of 10.29 seconds.

00:48Azim failed to come close to his personal best of 10.09 seconds that he set in the World

00:54Athletics Under-20 Championships in 2022.

01:00In Marseille, inconsistent wins since day one of the sailing competition have caused

01:05delays, affecting national sailors Kyril Nizam Mohamed Effendi and Nur Shazrin Mohamed Latif.

01:13Kyril Nizam currently sits in the 26th place after five races, while Nur Shazrin is ranked

01:1920th after five races.

01:23At the golf course, it could have been the best round for Malaysian golfer Gavin Green,

01:27but a bogey on the final hole ruined it in the third round.

01:31Green was all set to sign off with a blemish-free third-round score, but his putt rolled just

01:36wide of the cup on the par-4 18th.

01:39He was placed at 37th at press time.

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