KUALA LUMPUR: Teenager Mohd Irfan Shamsuddin (pic) took up discus two years ago.
And yesterday, the burly 19-year-old Seremban-born Irfan served notice of his arrival on the big stage when he hurled the discus to a distance of 49.81m – breaking the national record of 49.33m set by Ngu Kit Min of Sarawak in the Malaysian Open in Penang in 2006.
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