Mohd Hakimi Ismail stands beside the electronic scoreboard indicating his gold medal winning triple jump distance achieved at the Singapore SEA Games recently. - S.S.KANESAN/ The STAR
KUALA LUMPUR: Just 14cm – or 5.5 inches – separates triple jumper Mohd Hakimi Ismail from next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The 24-year-old athlete has a personal best of 16.76m, which he achieved in Singapore on June 9 to break the SEA Games record of 16.67m set by Vietnam’s Nguyen Van Hung in the 2013 Myanmar Games.
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