Indonesia exceeded its gold medal projection of 150 gold medals, finishing first overall with a final tally of 182-151-142 gold-silver-bronze medals to win the overall championship since it last hosted the Southeast Asian Games in 1977.
Its gold-medal campaign was bolstered by the introduction of new sports – roller skate, vovinam, shorinji kempo, water ski and bridge – where it won 41 gold medals. However, it was its dominance in almost all sports and crowd support it received that accounted for the success of the host country, which reigned the longest in the SEAG – with 10 so far since it joined the biennial meet, along with the Philippines, in 1977. Indonesia swept all 12 golds in roller sport and seven in soft tennis, won nine of 10 in wall climbing, ceding only one to the Philippines, nine of the 18 at stake in pencak silat, 10 of 17 in karatedo and eight of 16 in shjrini kempo, a form of martial art that originated in Japan. It shared the 10 golds in vovinam, a Vietnamese martial art, with Vietnam, and also cornered eight of 15 in cycling and six of 15 in canoeing while its world-class shuttlers took five of seven in badminton. A one-time world power in archery, Indonesia placed 10 events in the calendar but won only three. It reintroduced fin swimming but had only four of 10. It introduced bridge with the expectation that it would sweep all eight gold medals with its world champions, but it had only three, yielding two to the Philippines. Indonesia had 13 golds in athletics, barely one behind Thailand, and made a good showing in swimming (6), taekwondo (6), wushu (6), badminton (5), wrestling (4), water ski (4), judo (4), weightlifting (3), equestrian (3), rowing (3), tennis (3) and golf (2). It went without a medal in traditional boat race, open water swimming, synchronized swimming, sepak takraw, volleyball, water polo, softball, chess, baseball, table tennis, basketball, and rhythmic gymnastics.
Thailand took the overall title in athletics with 14 gold medals, swimming (8), and boxing, with taekwondo and weightlifting with seven each, judo and canoeing with 5 each, and sailing (4). It collected three each in wrestling, rowing, artistic gymnastics, fencing petanque and cycling.
Vietnam was dominant in artistic gymnastics (11), and hauled golds in athletics (9), wrestling (8), shooting (7), pencak silat (5), fencing (5) and shared the honors with Indonesia in vovinam (5).
Malaysia took over from the Philippines as the region’s best in diving, its biggest medal haul of seven coming from its Asian Games veteran divers. It also ate into the gold medal preserves of the Philippines in athletics with six golds and had outstanding performances in swimming (5), bowling (5), water ski (4), karatedo (4) and synchronized swimming (4).
Singapore won an unprecedented 17 gold medals to dominate swimming. Its other medals came from table tennis (5), sailing (4), bowling (3), canoing (2), and athletics (2).
The Philippines most productive sports was taekwondo, followed by 4-3-5 gold-silver-bronze medals, followed by boxing (4-1-1), billiards and snooker (3-2-4), athletics (2-9-5), wrestling (2-3-3), bridge (2-2-1) and softball (2-0-0). The most bemedalled athlete was Iris Ranola, who ruled both the 8-Ball and 9-ball competitions.
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