Hammer thrower Jackie is back after beating Covid-19

Training in full swing: Jackie is now focusing on recapturing his old form, inset: a trimmer and meaner Jackie.

PETALING JAYA: After an agonising 73 days of hospitalisation and uncertainty, national hammer thrower Jackie Wong Siew Cheer is back. The athlete is slowly regaining his bulk and building up his gallop after his Covid-19 ordeal.

Jackie, the first Malaysian athlete to be infected by the virus, was warded at the Sibu General Hospital for more than two months after testing positive on March 16.

The 27-year-old Jackie, however, is not ready to pick up where he left off.