Sea Games 23 adds new categories in sports events
- Wednesday - 20/07/2011 06:15
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With this supplementation, the total sets of medal increase from 388 to 441.
Symbol of Sea Games 23
The additional categories were in karate, wrestling, wushu, pencat silat, kickboxing, judo, shooting, archery, table tennis, tennis, chess, bodybuilding, sepaktakraw and weight lifting.
Ten of 11 member countries in the Southeast Asian Sports Federation, excluding Malaysia, showed their high contention and approval towards the expansion of sports categories.
With the increase, Vietnam hopes to gain more than 70 gold medals at the competition since Vietnamese players have strong advantages in the sports which had additional categories and possibly one of the top three spots in the final medal ranking tally
Sea Games 23 will take place from Nov. 27 to Dec. 5 this year in the Philippines.
According to Dong Nai Newspaper