Sea Games: Malaysia Remain Seventh Overall Despite Best Showing Thus Far

PHNOM PENH, May 9 (Bernama) -- Malaysia continues to languish in seventh place overall at the end of the fourth day of the 2023 South East Asian (SEA) Games, with 15 gold, 15 silver and 32 bronze medals.

Today’s gold medal harvest was the best daily total so far, at five, with two coming from athletics, and one each from diving, swimming and snooker.

The first gold of the day came from Muhammad Syafiq Puteh in the 3 metre (m) men’s springboard event, and this was followed by national runners Shereen Samson Vallabouy and Umar Usman, in the women’s and men’s 400m events.

Umar’s gold came with a bonus, he set a new national record of 46.34 seconds (s), breaking the previous record of 46.41s by Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin at the Asian Junior Athletics Championship in Brunei in July 2001.

The swim team finally notched their first gold through Khiew Hoe Yean’s win after four days of competition at the Morodok Techo National Aquatic Centre here while national snooker player Moh Keen Hoo delivered the fifth and last gold of the day in the 6-Red men’s individual event.

As for the overall standings, Thailand, who began in third place, shot up to top the table with 40 gold, 30 silver and 45 bronze medals.

Vietnam remains second with 39 gold, 39 silver and 46 bronze, while Cambodia dropped to third with 39-39-39.

-- BERNAMA