Published on: Monday, July 05, 2021
By: Bernama
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Three-time SEA Games champion Hup wei is hoping to improve on his personal best of 2.29m.
Kuala Lumpur: Making his third appearance at the Olympics, national high jumper Lee Hup Wei aims to set history as the country’s first track and field Olympian to make it into an athletics event finals.
Based on the Rio 2016 results, the 34-year-old will have to jump in the range of 2.26m and above in the qualifying round, to secure his spot in the finals.
At the 2016 Games, fellow high jumper Nauraj Singh Randhawa together with eight other high jumpers narrowly missed the chance to emerge among the top 15 finalists, despite leaps of 2.26m as they didn’t clear the mark in their first attempt.