MYANMAR athletes secured two silver medals in kickboxing, one bronze in sepak takraw, one bronze in silat and one bronze in wushu, increasing the country’s overall tally at the XXXIII South-East Asia Games, hosted across Bangkok and Chonburi, Thailand.
Myanmar Olympic Committee General Secretary and Deputy Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs U Htein Lin, Deputy Minister for Transport and Communications U Aung Kyaw Htun, along with team leaders and officials, observed Myanmar athletes competing across 22 sports, including cycling, archery, shooting, bowling, billiards and snooker, kabaddi, sepak takraw, futsal, muay, taekwondo, kickboxing, athletics, e-sports, pencak silat, table tennis, international rowing, dragon boat racing and weightlifting.
In the morning session at Football Field 1 of the Sports Authority of Thailand in Bangkok, officials cheered Myanmar athletes competing in men’s and women’s recurve archery individual and team elimination matches. Later, at the John Paul II Sports Centre at Assumption University in Samut Prakan, they observed Myanmar athletes competing in the women’s kickboxing point fighting –50-kilogramme and K1 –52-kilogramme bouts, in which
Lin Sanda Htay and May Thazin Htoo secured silver medals.
In addition, Myanmar athletes competed in the men’s road race cycling, recurve archery, women’s 25-metre pistol shooting, men’s doubles bowling, snooker singles, kabaddi Super Five, men’s and women’s four-player sepak takraw, men’s futsal, muay (–57-kilogramme, –63-kilogramme, –54- kilogramme and –51-kilogramme), men’s 60-kilogramme and women’s 66-kilogramme taekwondo, athletics (javelin throw and 3,000-metre steeplechase), women’s e-sports (MLBB) team event, silat, table tennis doubles and team events, international rowing (men’s single sculls and women’s fours), dragon boat racing and the men’s 94-kilogramme weightlifting event.
Myanmar’s sepak takraw, silat and wushu teams each added one bronze medal, demonstrating consistent performances across multiple disciplines.
Following the 16 December competitions, Myanmar concluded the Games with three gold, 19 silver and 23 bronze medals, placing seventh overall among participating nations with a total of 45 medals. — MNA/KZL
