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Thai sprinters dominate relay events

Thai sprinters dominate relay events

Joshua accomplishes hat-trick of track golds

The Thai women’s team celebrate winning the 4x100m title in Hanoi on Monday.  Reuters NAVESH CHITRAKAR

Thailand swept the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay titles at the 31st SEA Games in Vietnam Monday night.

Supawan Thipat, Supanich Poolkerd, On-uma Chattha and Athicha Phetkum clocked 44.39sec to win the women’s crown in Hanoi.

Vietnam came in second in 45.25 and Malaysia third in 45.32.

It was Thailand’s 24th title in the event in 31 Games. However, they could not beat Vietnam’s SEA Games mark of 43.88.

“Before the final, we said we would go out and have fun. We thought we could break the record….

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