Korat Sea Games

Yes, it is official now. Malaysia ended our campaign at Korat with 68 Golds, 52 Silver and 96 Bronze to finish number 2 on the Medal Tally for the 24th Korat Sea Games. This is definitely our 2nd best achievements for Sea Games, with the exception of 2001 21st Sea Games in Kuala Lumpur, where we won 111 gold medals.

This is the best achieved Sea Games outside of Kuala Lumpur for us.

To the Malaysian contingent, Syabas!

There have been quite a few sports that have been doing very well, like Diving, Karate, Bowling, Equestrian, Rhythemic Gymnastic, Polo, Swimming, Lawn Bowls etc

And of course, some sports have been a letdown. Badminton definitely counts as one, with only 4 Bronze medals to show. Silat did badly as well, so do taekwando, shooting, sailing, weightlifting, bodybuilding, football etc.

We would hopefully be more ready by the 25th Sea Games at Laos in 2009.

Korat Sea Games Report

I just have a few minutes to blog, so going to have it quick.

First of all, Syabas to our national athletes to help Malaysia to finish Number 2 for the 24th Sea Games in Korat and also to achieve our best achievements outside of Kuala Lumpur for Sea Games.

As of now, we have gotten 67 Gold medals (although I haven't found where our 3 gold medals are yet for today, maybe they have counted the polo gold medal). As of end of yesterday, we got 64 Golds, 49 Silvers and 89 Bronze, making us tie with Vietnam on gold medals.

Today, Rhythemic Gymnastic has delivered 2 Golds 1 Silver and 3 Bronzes, with Ribbon event still running.

And another event is we are playing in Polo Final.

For Beach volleyball, we added a bronze and also we added a silver for team eventing for Equestrian.

The 67 Golds would mean we are tie with our achievements in 1989 the 15th KL Sea Games, and just behind the 111 Gold Medals in 2001 Sea Games.

Korat Sea Games Updates

With Sea Games left with 2 days before ending, our National contingent have been performing very well in the last few days.

As of now, Malaysia has a total of 54 gold medals, with another 12 more to hit the target. Of the remaining golds, 7 of them are in diving, which Malaysia would hopefully be able to be a strong contender. Today, we took home both the gold medals offered. There will be 5 more gold medals in Rhythemic Gymnastic as well. We should already have 1 gold in polo in back, and our 9-ball snooker, we have 2 Malaysians in the semi-final. For sailing, we should expect another 1-2 golds as well.

The same goes for karate, we have been winning at least 7-8 golds in karate. There are 2 more golds offered for Team Kumite Men and Women and we should be the strongest to win both these gold medals.

There are also 1 more gold medal for Bowling in Mixed Double. I believe there should be 2 more gold medals for All Events as well. So, we should expect another golden galore there.

So, lets keep our fingers' crossed on our Sea Games contingent.

Congrats to our athletes for their strong performance. Especially, our women's basketball won a very tight 61-60 today to get the gold medal! Syabas!

Korat Sea Games Updates (6th Dec 2007)

Sorry that I have been busy and without time to update. For yesterday, our polo starts with flying colours of 11 vs 3.5 to Indonesia. Congrats!

There has been actions for rowing as well, but I haven't gotten the chance to go through the results.

To get full SEA Games results, go to Official Sea Games Website

Korat Sea Games Update (5th Dec 2007)

Today, our women's table tennis team garnered a bronze after losing 2-3 to Thailand in a very closely fought semi-final game. Unfortunately, we were unable to turn the table of the host. The main paddler for Thailand, brought in 2 points for Thailand and that effectively shut our chances.

For aerobics women individual, our acrobic dancers were far at the last 2 positions. Kong Pei Ling and Joanne Tan got respectively 15.45 and 14.75 points. They were in 5th and 6th position. However, the athlete from Indonesia, Koesumansat, who finished number 4th got 19.2 points. That's a lot of difference. Having said that, this is great exposure for our national athletes.

As of now, Malaysia is lagging very far behind other nations. Our athletes performance are far from solid as of now. We have just gotten 2 golds as of currently. Our target is 64 golds.

And a lot of unfortunate incidents have happened too. Daniel Bego, our top ranked swimmer is having a fever. Wong Mew Choo is injured. So do a few other athletes. All these gold-medal hopes would hopefully be able to recover and deliver.

Tomorrow, the 24th Korat Sea Games would be launched. A fantastic galore of 10 days of sports!

Korat Sea Games 2007 (4th Dec 2007)

Today, our women soccer performed humiliatingly. Lost 0-5 to Myanmar. That's a bad performance. Perhaps our soccer team should have stayed at home and practice more.

Tomorrow, our men soccer team would fight against Singapore and if the final results is anything less than a win and Laos do not beat Vietnam, we can pack our bags too, even before Sea Games is officially launched.

For women's table tennis, we beat Myanmar 3-0, whereas our men team lost 0-3 to Indonesia. This is their 2nd loss already.

Do come back for daily updates.

Sea Games Update (3rd Dec 2007)

Today, our football team went down to play, and finally they managed to give a good display of themselves. 4-0 win over Laos, means that we won't suffer the humiliation that Singapore went through 2 days ago, when they were held 0-0 by Laos.

Singapore beat Vietnam 3-2, and this practically threw Group B into open.

Current Standings are:-

Singapore 1 Win 1 Draw, total goals (3-2), 4 points
Malaysia 1 Win 1 Lose, total goals (5-3), 3 points
Vietnam 1 Win 1 Lose, total goals (5-4), 3 points
Laos, 1 Draw 1 Lose, total goals (0-4), 1 point

Final game:-
Malaysia vs Singapore
Vietnam vs Laos

Assume that the form book is not upsetted, Vietnam would beat Laos, and this means that for Malaysia to qualify for semi-final, we have no choice, but to beat Singapore.

The other event that we have Malaysian participation today is table tennis.

For men's team, we beat Laos 3-0, beat Myanmar 3-0, lost to Vietnam 0-3

For women's team, we lost to Singapore 0-3, beat Laos 3-0.

Our women's team will play Myanmar tomorrow, whereas our men team will play Indonesia.

Our skeet team, or rather even our shooting team is quite a let down this Sea Games. They end their campaign with just a mere 2 Golds 3 Silvers and 5 Bronze.

24th Korat Sea Games

With the curtain of Sea Games going to be raised soon, can our national contingent deliver the gold needed? We are targeting 64 golds, and now with 31 golds from shotting already being granted, we are only at 2 gold medals, way behind Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam. Can the Malaysian Tigers bite back? Can we fight back?

The Official Sea Games website is here . Would try to share the updates here daily, as I am a very keen sports follower, especially on sports concerning Malaysia.

Lets wish our national contingent, Malaysia Boleh!