King, Queen congratulate Shereen over 400m win

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and the Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, have expressed their pride and joy at the success of national athlete Shereen Vallabouy in bringing glory to Malaysia on the world stage.

In a post on the official Istana Negara Facebook page tonight, the King and Queen congratulated Shereen on her success in breaking the national women’s 400m indoor record at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships in Kansas, the United States, on Saturday.

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Malaysian track star rocks US, where’s the noise in Malaysia?

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian track star Shereen Vallabouy has emerged queen of indoor 400m in second-tier US college athletics but there is silence in Malaysia over her stunning achievement.

Her win was spectacular: nearly 300 teams and over 1,000 individual athletes contested the women’s indoor 400m title at the start of the 2021-22 US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) division II track and field campaign.

Last Saturday, Shereen, 23, was the best of the best 400m racers, running with panache to set a new championship mark and a Malaysian record of 53.79s at Pittsburg State University, Kansas.

Her achievement followed an outstanding indoor campaign in which she ran 54.94s last month to rewrite the 12-year-old Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference record.

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