SEA Games: The great win for archery tean

Kuala Lumpur: It ent down to the wire but Malaysian women's team in compound did not falter, they kept calm and secured the country's gold medal at Kuala Lumpur SEA Games 2017. Malaysia's Fatin Nurfatehah Mat Salleh and Nurul Syahzera Mohammad Asmi shot four 10's in row to ensure Malaysia kept pressure on Vietnam, bit Saritha Cham Nong failed to follow in her teammate's footsteps only managing an eight which led to a sudden death shoot off. Ftin and Nurul Syahzera hit nine each while third shooter Saritha Scored a perfect 10 to claim Malaysia's first gold in archery

  

Inspired by the women's success, the men's trio of Mohd Juwaidi Mazuki, Zulfadhli Ruslan and Lee Kin Lip  were in control throughout their final, never trailing Singapore before sealing a 228-222 win. Mohd Juwaidi, who failed to capitalise on an early  three-point lead and eventually lost 144-145 to indonesian Prima Wisnu Wardhana in the final of the individual competition, was delighted to get a gold medal around his neck

Meanwhile, the trio Nur Aliya Ghapar, Nuramalia Haneesha Mazlan and Nur Afisa Abdul Halil beat defending champions Indonesia 5-1 in the final. After that, the men's team comprising haziq Kamaruddin, Khairul Anuar Mohamad and Muhammad Akmal Nor Hasrin retained the gold medal won in Singapore after defeating Thailand (Denchai Thepna, Natthapoom Phusawat and witthaya Thamwong) 5-1. Malaysia end 12 years drought with archery gold after women and men trio winning the gold in recurve event.

This was an improvement of the women's recurve squad's performance in Singapore where they won the bronze, and at the same time ended the 12 years  drought of winning the gold after last winning it in the event in 2005 at the Manila Sea Games. The bronze medal in  the women's recurve team event went to the Philippines (kareel Meer Hongitan, Mary Queen Ybanez and Nicole Marie Tagle) who beat Vietnam (Le Thi Hien, Loc Thi Dao and Thi Phuong Nguyen)    6-0