HANOI, May 16 — Concern over Malaysia’s standings on the medal tally chart has grown as the country dropped to sixth place at the end of the ninth day of the 31st South East Asian Games today.
Hosts Vietnam continued to be at the top with 88 gold, 54 silver and 55 bronze, followed by Thailand in second place, with 36-38-53, the Philippines 30-34-44, Singapore 24-25-30 and Indonesia fifth with a tally of 23-36-30. At Quan Ngua Gymnasium Centre, national women’s artistic gymnast Rachel Yeoh Li Wen continued to shine as she won her second personal gold medal at the Hanoi SEA Games in the balance beam event.
After a long 11-year medal drought, the national women’s mountain biking squad put on an energetic effort to win a silver through Nur Assyira Zainal Abidin and a bronze by Natahsya Soon in the Cross Country Olympic event.
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