SEA Games: Singapore grabs 1st medal through chinlone

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The medal tally for Singapore’s Southeast Asian Games campaign kicked off on Saturday morning with a surprise bronze in chinlone.

The thousand-year-old sport does not involve a net nor direct competition with another team: its objective is for players in a circle to take turns keeping the ball airborne while performing tricks at the same time.

Sent in to attempt the traditional Burmese sport for the first time ever, the Republic’s sepak takraw team were soundly beaten over all three days of matches this week – the last of which was through a 159-349 thrashing by host country and eventual champions Myanmar in the “non-repetition” category.

But with no third-place play-off in the latter event, both Singapore and Malaysia – who lost 259-293 to Cambodia – ended up being awarded joint-bronze.