There are 18 Olympic gold winners from Southeast Asia – do you know all of them?

Indonesia's badminton star Susi Susanti, who became Southeast Asia's first Olympic gold medallist when she won the women's singles event at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

In fact, only four out of the 11 Southeast Asian countries had been able to celebrate their athletes winning gold - Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam. Thailand's Udomporn Polsak celebrates her gold medal in the women's 53 kg weighlifting competition at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The first Thai woman to win an Olympic gold, Udomporn followed up on her triumph at the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships with her momentous win in the women's Under-53kg category in Athens. In 2007, she was given the honour of lighting the cauldron when the SEA Games was held at her hometown of Nakhon Ratchasima.

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