Cambodian billiards player Sruong Pheavy beat Thai Vutthiphan Kongkaket in the top eight qualifiers to advance to the semi-finals of the 1 cushion event at the 32nd SEA Games. During the match, held at AEON Mall Sen Sok, on the afternoon of May 12, Pheavy took a 50-26 lead over her Thai opponent, earning a place in the semi-finals. She will face either Vietnam’s Kei Tuong Phung or Rubilen Dacua Amit of the Philippines, who will meet to decide the other place in the top four. Vietnam’s Thi Ngoc Huele best Chezka Luy Centeno of the Philippines 50-19 in her…
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Four Cambodian athletes are headed to the finswimming finals on the evening of May 12 to hunt for additional medals for the Kingdom. Team Cambodia’s other swimmers and dicers have completed their competitions, but were unable to deliver any medal-winning performances. The finswimming heats were held on the morning of May 12 at the Morodok Techo National Stadium in Phnom Penh. Kaing Muoy Nin, Khoeun Bun Pich Morakot, Sok Vat Thanoun and Lim Keo Udom all made through their heats, and will appear in the finals, which get underway at 6pm. In the women’s 400m bi-fins, Muoy Nin, and Pich…
Chhun Bunthong made history when he became the first Cambodian to claim an athletics gold medal at the 32nd SEA Games on May 11. The taste of victory was made even sweeter by winning it on home soil, as the Kingdom hosted the regional biennial multi-sports extravaganza for the first time in history. In the 800m finals at the Morodok Techo National Stadium in Phnom Penh, Bunthong raced home in 1 minute and 52.910 seconds to take the top spot on the podium. Vietnamese runner Duc Phuoc Luong won silver with a time of 1: 53.340, with bronze going to…
Team Cambodia’s Kun Khmer fighters lit up the medals table in the newly-offered sport, with the national boxers claiming a total of 14 gold, three silver and two bronze medals. The team managed to medal in all 19 classes staged at the 32nd SEA Games, with the Kun Khmer men’s team setting the phenomenal record of taking gold in all categories. They began their astonishing run on May 6, when Kan Meng Hong took the top spot in the Kun Kru event — a performance category featuring the Thvay Bangkom Kru, which is performed before all fights. On May 10,…
The Cambodia Vovinam Federation, lauded their success at the 32nd SEA Games hosted by the Kingdom. In the four days of the Vovinam competition, Team Cambodia claimed an astonishing 27 medals, 10 of them gold. The record haul included remarkable performances by veteran Vovinam proponents Pal Chhor Raksmey and Pov Sokha, who claimed 11 medals between them. The team’s incredible run propelled them to the top of the Vovinam medal table, where they remained. With 10 gold, eight silver and nine bronze medals, Team Cambodia saw off second-placed Vietnam – where the sport originated – who claimed seven gold,…
Keisuke Honda spoke emotionally of his five years as manager of the Cambodia men’s national football team after his young charges on May 10 heartbreakingly failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. Honda – who described the fans as his “energy and optimism” – led Cambodia to the semi-finals of the 2019 Philippines SEA Games for the first time in the side’s history, but they could not better that showing with the Kingdom hosting the 32nd edition. The Cambodian under-22 men’s side exited the tournament on the final day of the group stage after…
As the 32nd SEA Games got underway in Cambodia, two of the Kingdom’s traditional sports were featured for the historic first time. The inclusion of Lbokator, the oldest of Cambodia’s martial arts, and ouk chaktrang, or Khmer chess, symbolised the confidence of modern Cambodia. The Lbokator team secured their places as representatives of a proud nation, as they secured eight gold medals to dominate the competition. On the opening day of competition, May 4, the team amazed their fans by claiming four golds. Over the remainder of the competition, they were able to win another four, finishing the Lbokator competition…
Cambodian billiards player Sruong Pheavy has achieved one of her life goals at her first appearance at the SEA Games, after claiming a gold medal for Cambodia in her signature 3 cushion carom event at the 32nd SEA Games. The final match was held on May 8, at a specially prepared venue at AEON Mall Sen Sok. Pheavy defeated Hoang Yen Nhi Nguyen of Vietnam 25-20 to secure the gold, her third consecutive victory of the tournament. Earlier in the day, she inflicted heavy defeats on Vietnamese player Phung Kien Tuong – who went down 25-10 in the semi-finals – and Chezka Luy Centrno…
Popular Cambodian ju-jitsu athlete Jessa Khan was reduced after her gold-medal winning performance in the no gi ne-waza class on Sunday May 7. The tears expressed her gratitude to all of the Cambodian fans who have supported her journey to the top of the podium. The tears had flowed on May 4, when she was defeated by Filipino Jenna Kaila Napolis in the gi ne-waza final, and forced to settle for silver, but this time they were tears of joy and excitement, as she submitted Napolis’ compatriot Margarita Prado. After defeating all four of her opponents in the under 52kg…
Sao Sokha, president of the Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC), has heeded the calls of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Kingdom’s countless football fans and rescinded his resignation from the post. “I accept the appeals of Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Kingdom’s football lovers, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, our sponsors, the media, and all of the foreign friends who convinced me to continue my mandate as elected head of the FFC,” he said in a statement released late on May 8. “In response to the trust of the prime minister and all football fans in Cambodia,…