CLARK: The Philippines easily topped the Southeast Asian Games medal table with 149 golds, continuing a rich tradition at the regional Olympics whose flexible sporting programme is usually skewed in the hosts’ favour.
But the Philippines is only following a trend at the biennial Games, where eight of the last 12 editions have finished with the hosts on top of the medals table. But the effect is especially marked at the SEA Games, where the Philippines won just 24 golds at the last edition in Kuala Lumpur in 2017 – as hosts Malaysia unsurprisingly finished top with 144 golds.
The top contributor to the Philippines’ gold haul was arnis, the little-known, stick-wielding martial art, with 14 out of the 20 golds available.
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