Southeast Asian Games 2017

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    SEA Games: Swimming highlights

    The aquatics contingent also broke its best “away” record since the 2011 SEA Games in Palembang, notching a total of 23 gold, 16 silver and 17 bronze medals in five disciplines.

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    SEA Games: Team Singapore gets A- grade; football and athletics 'can do better'

    Team Singapore concluded its 2017 SEA Games campaign in Kuala Lumpur with a record “away” medal haul of 57 golds, 58 silvers and 73 bronzes. The tally was its best showing since the 2007 SEA Games in Korat, Thailand, which reaped 43 gold, 43 silver and 41 bronze medals. It is also the second best performance compared with the 2015 edition in Singapore.

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    SEA Games: Singapore's Cheyenne Goh wins first medal in speed skating

    Singapore rounded off its SEA Games campaign with four more silver medals from short track speed skating at the Empire City Arena. On the last day of competition on Wednesday (30 Aug), 18-year-old Cheyenne Goh and 28-year-old Lucas Ng won silver in their respective 1000m finals. In the 3000m relay finals, Singapore’s men’s and women’s teams also finished in the silver medal position.

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    Sasha Christian's slalom win marks Singapore's 50th SEA Games gold medal

    Sasha Christian has secured Singapore’s 50th gold medal the 2017 SEA Games with a win in the women’s slalom in the waterski event at the Putrajaya Water Sports Complex. Christian told Yahoo News Singapore, “I was really, really nervous going into the final today. Malaysia’s Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah took silver and Indonesia’s Ummu Sholikah took bronze.

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    SEA Games: Swimmer Amanda Lim enlists social media to find young fan

    Screenshot from swimmer Amanda Lim’s Facebook page of a young girl Lim has been looking for. Singapore swimmer Amanda Lim, who won a gold in the 50m freestyle at the SEA Games, has sought the help of netizens to find a young supporter who cheered for her in Kuala Lumpur. On Monday night (28 Aug), Lim posted a video on her social media accounts of a young girl in the stands at the National Aquatic Centre who waved at her after the victory ceremony of Lim’s event.

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    SEA Games: Singapore take bronze in rhythmic gymnastics mixed apparatus event

    Malaysia’s rhythmic gymnastics team came out tops in the mixed apparatus (2 ropes, 3 balls) final in front of a sold-out arena at MITEC Hall 10 in Kuala Lumpur on Monday (28 August). The Malaysian team recorded a score of 15.350 to take gold, with Vietnam taking silver (13.650) and Singapore taking bronze (11.450). Speaking on behalf of the Singapore team, Phebe Lau said the team was happy just to get on the podium.

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    SEA GAMES: Singapore's Yu Shuran wins gold in figure skating

    Singapore figure skater Yu Shuran has won Singapore’s first winter sports gold at the 2017 SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur. The 17-year-old came out tops in the figure skating competition at Empire City, Kuala Lumpur on Sunday (27 Aug).