Filipina sprinter takes 200m SEA Games crown from 'Queen of Speed'

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CLARK (Philippines): Filipina sprinter Kristina Marie Knott defeated Vietnam's 'Queen of Speed' Le Tu Chinh on Saturday (Dec 7) to take her South-East (SEA) Asian Games 200m track title in the first night of track and field action at the stadium in New Clark City.

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Kristina Marie Knott from the Philippines winning the women's 200m athletics event in the SEA Games at the athletics stadium in Clark, Capas, Tarlac province north of Manila. - AFP

The host nation are in complete control of the medal table after a week of competition at the biggest-ever SEA Games, with 85 golds -- streets ahead of Indonesia's 50 and Vietnam's 43. It was a golden evening for Thailand's men, with a 10,000m gold for Kieran Tuntivate, a one-two for Chayut Khongprasit and Siripol Punpa in the 200m and a win for Kittipong Boonmawan in the men's hammer.

Elsewhere, one of the region's only gold medallists at Rio 2016 -- Vietnamese pistol shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh -- had to settle for silver, losing out to Thailand's Kulchairattana Pongpol in the 10m air pistol contest in Subic.

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