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Brunei junior duilian team win gold

Brunei junior duilian team win gold
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE national junior wushu team struck gold to close out their campaign at the 11th Asian Junior Wushu Championships in Macau. The duo of Walid Lachkar and Abel Lim tallied a total of 8.826 points to defeat six countries and finish top of the podium in the boy's duilian…
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Brunei junior wushu team add three bronze medals

Brunei junior wushu team add three bronze medals
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE national junior wushu team added three more bronze medals on the second day of the 11th Asian Junior Wushu Championships in Macau on Saturday. Walid Lachkar tallied 8.903 points to take third place in the boy's Changquan A event. Featuring a field of 16 competitors, Chen Yun Chieh…
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Anisah targets competitive return next year

Anisah targets competitive return next year
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN NATIONAL pencak silat athlete Anisah Najihah Abdullah is on the long road to recovery. She had surgery on her right knee in May and is expected to be out of competition till at least next year. This is the second time she went under the knife on the same…
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Medal rush for Brunei Poomsae team

Medal rush for Brunei Poomsae team
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN IT was medals galore for the national taekwondo Poomsae team at the Sehan University President Taekwondo Championships over the weekend. Four athletes – Siblings Hyde Nathania, Nachman and Natrisha Hijium and Ahmad Zahid Borhan – amassed a total of two gold, three silver and one bronze medals at Yeongam-gun in South Korea.…
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Basma wins silver at World University Games

Basma wins silver at World University Games
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BASMA Lachkar added another medal to her cabinet after taking second place in the women's taijijian event at the World University Games. She tallied a total of 9.680 points to home silver at the Chengbei Gymnasium in Chengdu, China. Chen Xiaoli of China won the gold with 9.746 points…
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Brunei taekwondo team win 1 gold and 1 bronze

Brunei taekwondo team win 1 gold and 1 bronze
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE national taekwondo team marked their return to the global stage with a haul of one gold and one bronze at the 2023 Seongnam World Taekwondo Hanmadang. Juliana Abas finished the top of the podium for the gold in the Long Jump Kick Junior 2 category with a height…
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Hosea Wong strikes second gold for Brunei

Hosea Wong strikes second gold for Brunei
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THIRD time's the charm for Hosea Wong Zheng Yu. The national wushu athlete captured Brunei's second gold medal at the 32nd SEA Games after winning the men's taijiquan + taijijian event on Friday. He had won silver in the taijiquan event and bronze in the taijijian event in 2019…
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Adi Salihin completes golden hat-trick at SEA Games

Adi Salihin completes golden hat-trick at SEA Games
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN NATIONAL wushu athlete Mohammad Adi Salihin Roslan has done it again. He clinched Brunei's first gold medal at the 32nd SEA Games after winning the men's nanquan event on Wednesday. This is the third consecutive Games where he has landed at the top of the podium - making him…
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Pencak Silat: Anisah hopes to overcome challenges

Pencak Silat: Anisah hopes to overcome challenges
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN WILL it be three podium finishes in a row for pencak silat exponent Anisah Najihah Abdullah at the SEA Games? Anisah has back-to-back medals - winning bronze in the women's seni tunggal event in 2019 and followed that up with a silver in the regu event last year. She…
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Karate: Kuwait team lend Brunei a helping hand

Karate: Kuwait team lend Brunei a helping hand
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE national karate team were handed a timely boost ahead of the 32nd SEA Games to train with the visiting Kuwait team over three days. The Kuwaiti contingent included Abdullah Shaaban, a two-time Asian Kumite champion, and the kata team made up of twins Mohamed and Salman Al Mosawi…
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