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2015 - SEA GAMES - Malaysia achieve a grand double in bowling
SINGAPORE: Malaysia made a clean sweep of the men’s and women’s team-of-five bowling gold medals at the Orchid Bowl at the Orchid Country Club. They did it Brunei in 1999 and in Manila in 2005, and on Friday, they did it again. The men easily cruised to victory with 6,238 pinfalls, 172 ahead of second-placed Indonesia (6,066), and Thailand came in third with 5,852. Bowling two lanes away from second-placed Singapore, the women held their nerves amidst screams of “Majulah, Singapura” and chants of “Let’s go, Singapore!” Despite the cheers for their opponents, Shalin Zulkifli, Esther Cheah, Sin Li Jane, Syaidatul Afifah Badrul Hamidi and Natasha Roslan knuckled down to amass 6,067 pinfalls and win by 55 pins. Singapore took silver with a total of 6,012, while the Philippines were third with 5,776 pinfalls. “We wanted this win really badly because (Youth and Sports Minister) Khairy Jamaluddin said that you need to win the gold to be considered for the Podium Programme...
