Event: 48th Asian Bodybuilding & Physique Sport 2014 Championship, Macao, China.

Date: 26 August – 1 September 2014

The Malaysian heroes, Buda Anchah and Sazali Samad obtained gold medals in their favorite categories; Master and Welterweight at the 48th Asian Bodybuilding & Physique Sport 2014 Championship, held at Macao, China. Their winning  marks as a precious gifts for Malaysia’s 57th Independence Day that falls on 31 August 2014. Team Malaysia returned home with medals of every colors, as summarized below:

GOLD

• Buda Anchah – Masters (above 40 yo) Category
• Sazali Abdul Samad – Welter Weight (75kg) Category

SILVER

• Mohd Syahrul Azman Mahen (Mike) – Athletic Physique 170cm

BRONZE

• Meilaura Dora Jimmy – Womens Bodybuilding Category (49kg)

FOURTH PLACING

• Azahar Mahamad – Masters (above 40 yo) Category
• Buda Anchah – Light Weight (70kg) Category
• Mohamad Na’im Ponngoh – Light Fly (55kg) Category
• Wong Ngai Hong – Heavy Weight (100kg) Category

OTHER ATHLETES

• Dr Malvern Abdullah – Bantam Weight Category
• Mohayan Rosmani – Light Middle Weight Category
• Mohammad Roszaimi Abdul Rani – Fly Weight Category
• Ahmad Faiz Ariffin – Athlete Physique 175cm

Syabas Team Malaysia!!!

Watch our exclusive video featuring Buda Anchah & Sazali Samad interview as soon as they returned Malaysia (via KLIA2).

Pictures are contributed by Coach Abdul Halim Budin. ‘Emas Merdeka’ poster was designed by Mie Sai Photography

Event date:  23 August 2014 (Saturday), held at Boulevard Shopping Mall, Kuching, Sarawak.

RESULTS

Champion of Champions: Jeremiah Rukong

Mr Fitness Below 170cm

• Winner: Louis Glass
• 1st Runner up: Mohd Iskandar Razali
• 2nd Runner up: Mohammad Azhar Aizam (Youngest participant)

Mr Fitness Above 170cm

• Winner: Mohd Al-rzrin Abdul Ghani
• 1st Runner up: Alvin Sia Loong Wei
• 2nd Runner up: Sivanesvaran

Senior Below 70kg

• Winner: Wilfred Harding
• 1st Runner up: Louis Glass
• 2nd Runner up: Anthony Cadrick

Senior Above 70kg

• Winner: Jeremiah Rukong
• 1st Runner up: Donny Fam
• 2nd Runner up: Mohd Sani Sanawi

Prizes were presented by the President of Sarawak Body Building Association (SBBA), Dato’ Wee Hong Seng. Congratulations to all winners!

Backstage video:

17 August 2014 – Mr Sabah 2014 that was held at Hongkod Koisaan, KDCA, Penampang had witnessed Henro Lee entitled as the Champion of the Champions. Full results are as below:

Champion of Champions – Henro Lee
Team Champion – MJ. Gym Membakut
Best Poser – Mohd Asyraf Akhmal Abdullah
Most Improve – Rosliee Suyut

Each category champion:

Junior – Ridzuan Kudimis (Body Art Gym Putatan)
Master – Pinus Bin Nain (CJ Olympia Gym Keningau)
Novice – Rozally Golbin (MJ. Gym Membakut)
Below 60kg – Jamain Korop (MJ. Gym Membakut)
60-70 kg – Henro Lee (SBBA Gym, Penampang)
70-80kg – Roslie Suyut (Hard Gym, Kota Marudu)
Over 80kg – Remy Martin (ATM, Kota Kinabalu)

Sabah Amateur Bodybuilding Association (SBBA) acting president Joannes Staneslous said Mr Sabah 2014 championship is used to select potential hulksters to be roped into the State squad for the Mr Malaysia Championship, which is expected to be held in WP Labuan middle of next year.

At this year’s Mr Malaysia 2014 that was held in Putrajaya in June where Sabah returned home with one gold medal, two silvers and three bronze. Henro Lee clinched the gold medal for Sabah in the Masters’ category while Tawau duo of Mohd Azlan Daud and Mohd Asyraf Ikmal Abdullah claimed the silvers. Oswald Jebing, Rosliee Suyut and Genoid Lozitin were the bronze medal contributors.

Back to the Mr Sabah 2014, Joannes revealed that the event featured seven categories namely Youth Under-21, Masters 45 years old and above and five open categories.

They are below 60kg, 60.1kg-70kg, 70.1kg-80kg, and above 80kg as well as district level open category, which is for new faces, who have never taken part in any State level championship.

There is also the overall winner for the inter-gym as well as the champion of the champions’ battle.

Joannes said the winners of the Youth Under-21 and Masters category was rewarded with RM350 for the champion, RM300 for the runners-up while third to fifth placed hulksters will receive RM250, RM200 and RM150 respectively.

As for the open category, the champion received RM500, RM350 for the runner-up and RM300 for third place. The fourth and fifth placed hulksters received RM250 and RM200 each.

The district level winner returned home with RM300, while second to fifth placed were rewarded with RM250, RM200, RM150 and RM100 respectively. All the winners were also received the medals.

* Credit photo to Augustine Jumat who was the official photographer for the event.

Call to arms for Malaysians to move from a Sport-Loving Nation to a Sporting Nation.

5 reasons why we need this:

1. Our performance at the Commonwealth Games have shown us that we have a long way to go to competing at the elite level. Much of this is down to the fact that the base from which we draw our talent from is narrow. If we’re to ever improve, we’re going to have to widen that base by ensuring that more and more people get involved in sports and fitness.
2. Malaysia tops the SEA rankings for both obesity and diabetes. Almost 4.4 million Malaysians are obese, 15.2% have diabetes, 32.7% have hypertension, and 35% have high cholesterol. This has great impact not only on public coffers but our standard of living. To overcome this, changes have to be made not only to our nutrition and diet, but our way of life.
3. Sport is one of the great unifier in our country. Supporting Lee Chong Wei, Nicol David or our Malaysian football team bring us together in a way that few things do, in a non-superficial way (food, basically). Right now, people either operate in sporting silos where ethnicity don’t mix, or in the rare instances that they do, they tend to be forced and inorganic.
4. Most urbanites feel removed from their local communities and local facilities. Building legacies within communities are important to ensure a sense of ownership and continuity.
5. It’s important for sport and fitness activities to be inclusive, not only across ethnicity and income, but across gender and disability lines. Programmes done under the #FitMalaysia umbrella have to be accessible to these groups. Women’s fitness and sports for the disabled have to be important pillars of these programmes, which include women’s self-defense and paralympic sport programmes.

There will be a FitMalaysia event in each state, which will lead up to a National Sports Day in 2015.

These events comprise the following activities;

• Walking/Jogging/Running – We’ll organise these across short distances; 5km and 10km.
• Cycling – 15km cycle
• Martial Arts – Traditional martial arts like karate, silambam, taekwondo, and contemporary ones like Urban Self Defense, with an emphasis on women’s defence.
• General Fitness Activities – Among other, these include bootcamp, TRX training, crossfit, yoga, zumba, aerobics, tai chi, and bar-risan.

All these activities have the following in common; no additional equipment is needed, they’re easy to learn, they’re effective, can be done alone or in a group, they’re not time-consuming and they’re not costly.

These programmes will showcase elements of sports science and sports medicine, with health checkups, fitness tests, nutritional advice, and workout programmes all available for the rakyat to enjoy.  We’ll also have sports equipment and apparel sales by our sponsors and invited partners.

The programmes serve a dual purpose; firstly, to bring people together to exercise and learn the latest ways to get/keep fit, and secondly, to facilitate community-building in sports. The programmes cannot exist in isolation, and a legacy of fitness has to be left behind after every programme. There has to be a measurable change to people’s lifestyles from FitMalaysia for it to succeed.

For that, in ensuring continuity, these programmes will involve stakeholders like state and local sports associations, youth associations, sports and recreation clubs, fitness groups and local community associations. At the completion of each of the state’s programmes, a FitMalaysia legacy document will be passed on to them as a template for them to use to curate activities of their own within their communities. The Ministry will also set up a discretionary fund to allow them to facilate these activities, and will disburse no more than RM1,000 per activity.

Our legacy of fitness will also be complemented by the fit.my portal. Besides highlighting the latest events, nutritional advice, workout support, fitness partners, and health metrics, the website will have a ‘buddy’ system which will allow for people to exercise with others in their localities.

TegapTV Malaysia was chosen as the Ambassador for Fit Malaysia. See you at the launching of the programme on 7 September 2014 (Sunday) at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur.

TegapTV Malaysia presents to you a special video featuring IFBB Pro Cedric McMillan interview and training session with Champ of Champs Men Of Steel 2014, Zainal Arif Zainal Ariffin. Remember to click “HD” button for high quality view!

This video was made in collaboration between:
Interviewer: Lai Wee Kiat of Fabodylous.com
Video Editor: Khairul Hayat Mohamad, edited at TegapTV Studio
Videographers: Ady Hazman and Mie Sai of TegapTV Malaysia
Shoot at: 7 Days Fitness Lakefields, Sg Besi, Kuala Lumpur
And thanks Scitec Nutrition Malaysia for bringing Cedric McMillan to Malaysia!

Enjoy the video!