S'pore wins 1st SEA Games gold
Paddlers Lin Ye and Zhou Yihan have won the first gold medal at the 28th South-east Asia Games at the Singapore Indoor Stadium tonight (June 2).
The duo beat highly fancied teammates Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu 7-11, 11-5, 11-8, 12-10, 3-11, 10-12, 11-7 in the women's doubles.
The men's doubles team of Gao Ning and Li Hu showed no mercy as they made light work of Thailand's Chanakarn Udomsilp and Padasak Tanviriyavechakul in the finals, winning 4-0 (11-8, 11-8, 12-10, 11-4).
Earlier in the day, Chanakarn and Padasak had stunned the home crowd as they beat Clarence Chew and Chen Feng 4-3 (11-7, 11-8, 5-11, 3-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4) in the semi-finals.
But they were no match for the power and pace of Gao and Li.
With these two medals, the national paddlers remain on track to complete a clean sweep of all seven table tennis gold medals, a feat they last achieved in Korat 2007.
Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong said: "Congratulations to our paddlers on winning our first SEA Games gold! I'm very proud of the fighting spirit and tenacity shown by our athletes so far, and also the tremendous support from Singaporeans at all the competition venues.
"Our campaign has just started and there are more exciting days ahead of us.
"Let's keep pushing on as One Team Singapore!"
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