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unusual facts about SEA Games



2005 AFF U-23 Youth Championship

This tournament was also known as the pre-SEA Games tournament, as the ASEAN Football Federation organized the event as a preparatory tournament for the nations competing in the Manila SEA Games in December of the same year.

Chris Greatwich

He was unable to play in 2005 in the SEA Games due to his Hartwick Hawks making the NCAA Tournament in the United States, but played the following year in Bacolod when they hosted the qualifiers for the Asean Championships.

Gretchen Malalad

Malalad won gold medals in 2001 and 2003 Southeast Asian Games and additional two gold medals in the 2005 SEA Games, the 60 kg Individual Kumite and Open Weight Individual Kumite competitions and captured a gold medal in the 2006 Korean Grand Open Championship in Busan, Korea on November 11 and 12, 2006.

Nigel Vanu

Neil is probably most remembered for being sent off in the Singapore Under-23 team's SEA Games Group A match against Indonesia.

Sepak takraw

All world, international, and regional competitions sanctioned by International Sepak Takraw Federation, including but not limited to, the Olympic Games, World Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and SEA Games, must be played with ISTAF approved sepak takraw balls.


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Cecil Mamiit

On December 30, 2007, 2-time Southeast Asian (SEA) Games singles champion Cecil Mamiit and renowned healing Catholic priest Father Fernando Suarez teamed up to defeat former Davis Cuppers Felix Barrientos and Roland So, 6–3, 1–6, 6–1, at the Manila Polo Club tennis courts.

Diliman Preparatory School

John Paul Lizardo - taekwondo practitioner, Gold medalist 2011 SEA Games

Greysia Polii

In December 2009, Greysia Polii / Nitya Krishinda can't get the gold for Indonesia in SEA Games 2009 in Vientiane, Laos.

Joscelin Yeo

In 2005, Yeo participated in her last SEA Games in Manila, the same city where she debuted for SEA Games.

Lee Hup Wei

His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved at the China Open in May 2008 at Beijing’s National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, to break the 13-year-old record of 2.24m set by Loo Kum Zee in the 1995 Chiang Mai SEA Games.

Methodist Girls' School

Joscelin Yeo: Former national swimmer and Olympian; Multiple gold medalist at the biennial Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games)

Christel Bouvron: Former national swimmer and Olympian; Multiple gold medalist at the biennial Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games)

Nurul Huda Abdullah

She won the gold medal of the swimming events at both Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) from 1985 to 1989.

Pengejar Angin

A month later, Damar's friend Ferdy (Agus Kuncoro), a trainer, comes to Lahat looking for talent to participate in the upcoming Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games).

Philippines at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games

However, 4-time swimming gold medallist Miguel Molina was named the Most Valuable Male Player of the 2007 SEA Games, the third Filipino (and also the third Filipino swimmer) to bag the major award for outstanding SEA Games performance after Akiko Thomson in 1989 Kuala Lumpur Games and Eric Buhain in the 1991 Manila Games.

Raphael Matthew Chua

Shortly after the SEA Games, Chua retired from his 12-year swimming career, when he made a final decision to finish his engineering course at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City.