Ukraine’s Vitaliy Shafar and Olena Shurkhno have taken this year’s Macau Marathon titles in the male and female categories, respectively. Shafar was clearly the strongest in his category, running the 42.195 kilometers in a mere 2:14:44. Shurkhno won with a time of 2:33:24 in the race held Sunday in Macau’s streets. A total of 8,000 […]
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Two-time defending champion PV Sindhu completed a hat-trick of titles at the Macau Open after defeating sixth seeded Minatsu Mitani 21-9 21-23 21-14 in the finals on Sunday. Fifth seeded Sindhu earlier advanced to finals of the event with a gruelling three-game triumph over second seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the semifinals. World No. […]
Swedish driver Felix Rosenqvist, from SJM Theodore Racing by Prema Powerteam won the F3 Macau Grand Prix in a Dallara/Mercedes on Sunday in 24m 52.619s. Rosenqvist also won last year´s F3 Macau Grand Prix. Second in line was Monaco born, Charles Leclerc (Gap 0.503s) in a Dallara/Wolkswagen followed by British Alexander Sims (Gap 2.701s) in […]
British Superbike and Isle of Man TT star Peter Hickman used his Briggs Building Equipment BMW S1000RR to win the 49th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix on Sunday. Hickman finished the 12 laps race in 29:22:021s with the best at 2:24:940s. In second place and third place respectively was Martin Jessop and multi-time Macau victor Michael […]
The Macanese selection won two gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal at the 13th Wushu World Championship that ended on Wednesday in Jakarta. Jun Hua Huang secured a gold medal in the category of Wushu Taolu Nangun and another silver medal in Wushu Taolu Nanquan. Another first prize for Macau was awarded to Wai […]
Australian Scott Hend came out top in his latest Macao Open Sunday shootout with Anirban Lahiri as he held off the Indian to win the Asian Tour title by three shots. Hend held a two-shot lead over Lahiri last year only to see the Indian overhaul him en route to the title but the 42-year-old […]
The annual Macau International Marathon is scheduled to return on December 6 this year, with new passing points, along with two thousand more runners, to be added to the routes. In light of increasing demand from athletes hoping to participate in the event, the organizer has decided to raise the participant limit to 8,000. The […]
The government will combine the two regulations for sports incentive awards into one, Sports Development Board (ID) President Jose Tavares said on Wednesday. Tavares, also the vice-chairman of the government-appointed Sports Commission, made the remark after a meeting of the consultative body, at Macau Dome in Cotai. Currently, the government gives bonuses to local athletes […]
Swedish driver Felix Rosenqvist, from SJM Theodore Racing by Prema Powerteam won the F3 Macau Grand Prix in a Dallara/Mercedes on Sunday in 24m 52.619s. Rosenqvist also won last year´s F3 Macau Grand Prix. Second in line was Monaco born, Charles Leclerc (Gap 0.503s) in a Dallara/Wolkswagen followed by British Alexander Sims (Gap 2.701s) in […]
Kenya’s Julius Kiplimo Maisei, won the 42.195 – kilometre Macau Marathon on Sunday with a time of 2 hours 14 minutes and 45 seconds. Maisei, that also won last year Macau marathon was 2 seconds faster than his compatriot Dominic Kangor Kimwetich. After the race he said that he would return for next year Macau […]
Manny Pacquiao produced a destructive and explosive performance in the early hours of Sunday morning, knocking down Chris Algieri six times on the way to an overwhelming points victory at the Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena. Even though Pacquiao was unable to record was would have been his first knockout in more than five years, the […]
This year’s only Formula 3 driver from Macau, 18-year-old Andy Chang Wing Chung, completed his first ever Macau Grand Prix Formula 3 race Sunday finishing 19th out of 21 drivers who qualified, and he is already planning to return next year to finish in the Top 10. Chang, who has been competing in kart racing […]