Malaysian Contingent @ 2nd Asian Indoor Games Macau 2007

2^nd Asian Indoor Games 2007

The 2^nd Asian Indoor Games ended on 3^rd November 2007. The Malaysian Contingent

comprised 103 male athletes, 30 female athletes, 49 male team officials and 4 female team officials, participated in 10 sports, Tenpin Bowling, Chess & Xiangqi, DanceSport, Dragon & Lion Dance, Extreme Sports, Futsal (men & women), Indoor Cycling, Indoor Hockey (men), Kabaddi (men) and 3on3 Basketball (men).

In the overall medal tally, the Malaysian Contingent finished with 3 silver medals and 6 bronze medals to be placed in 20^th position out of 32 countries, which participated in the 2^nd Asian Indoor Games. China with 52 gold medals, 26 silver medals and 24 bronze finished first, with Thailand in second position with 19 gold medals, 28 silver medals and 22 bronze medals. The Malaysian medal winners are shown below:

Silver

SPORT	EVENT	NOC	NAME	DATE
Inline Stunt	Inline Stunt - Big Air	Malaysia	FARIQ BIN MOHAMED ESA	2007-10-28
Southern Lion	Southern Lion - Public Stake Optional Ex	Malaysia	MAS	2007-11-02
Bowling	Women Singles	Malaysia	ZATIL IMAN	2007-10-28

Bronze

Skateboard	Skateboard - Park Best Technical	Malaysia	AHMAD FADZIL BIN MUSA	2007-10-27
BMX Freestyle	BMX Freestyle - Flatland	Malaysia	AHMAD SHAIFUL BIN AZIS	2007-11-02
Dragon Dance	Dragon Dance - Optional Exercise	Malaysia	MAS	2007-11-02
Chess	Men's Individual Classical Chess	Malaysia	MAS HAFIZULHILMI AGU	2007-11-01
Chess	Women's Individual Classical Chess	Malaysia	SITI ZULAIKHA BINTI	2007-11-01
Bowling	Women Team of 4	Malaysia	ZATIL IMAN\SIN LI JANE\KHOO WEI LING\NORHANIZAH BINTI ABU BAKAR	2007-11-02

The Men’s Futsal team qualified for the Quarter-Final, but lost 6 goals to 1 goal, to Uzbekistan, while the Women’s Futsal team lost all its preliminary matches. In Kabaddi, the Malaysian team won one match against Sri Lanka, by a score of 33 points against 31 points, out of the 5 matches played. In Indoor Hockey, the Men’s team qualified for the Bronze medal play-off, but loss to the India by a score of 4 goals against 7 goals.

Bowling: Women claim another bronze

THE women’s bowling back-up squad claimed another bronze medal at the 2nd Asian Indoor Games in Macau yesterday.

Led by Zatil Iman, the team posted 4,887 pinfalls after completing all two blocks in qualifying to take second position behind the star-studded South Korea team.

But the Malaysians failed to hold on to that advantage as they lost 793-720 to China in the semi-final.

The South Koreans, led by world champion Choi Jin A, took the gold beating China 957-833 in the final.

The Korean men made it a double when they won the men’s event beating Qatar 922-829 in the final. Malaysia finished 12th.
Malaysia had earlier won a silver in the singles event through Zatil.

It was, however, a good performance from the bowlers considering they were facing more fancied bowlers from other countries who sent their first-choice teams to the Games.

New Straits Times 3 November 2007

News @ 2nd AIG Macau 2007 - 1 November 2007

Malaysia Win Two More Bronze At Asian Indoor Games

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 (Bernama) -- Two national chess players gave Malaysia another two bronze medals at the ongoing 2nd Asian Indoor Games in Macau, China, today.The medals came from Men's Individual Classical Chess player, Hafizulhilmi Agu, and Siti Zulaikha in the Women's Individual Classical Chess.With the current medal tally of two silver and three bronze, Malaysia are in overall 17th position.China continue to lead with 46 gold, 21 silver and 19 bronze, followed by Hong Kong (11, 8, 8) and Thailand (10, 22, 19).

On Oct 28, Malaysia secured their first medal in the games through Ahmad Fadzil Musa in the Skateboard Event of the Park Best Technical category.The following day, two silver medals were won by Zatil Iman Abdul Ghani in the women's singles event in bowling and Fariq Mohamed Esa in the BMX freestyle (Inline Stunt) event in Extreme Sports (X-Sports).Nineteen countries are taking part in the games which kicked off on Oct 26.

The games, which ends on Nov 3, is offering 15 events which include traditional and modern games such as Xiangi (Chinese Chess), Dragon & Lion dance, finswimming, artistic cycling, cycle ball and others.Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) vice president Datuk Roy Rajasingham is leading the 132-strong Malaysian contingent to the Games.The Malaysians are competing in bowling, chess, Xiangqi (chinese chess), dance sports, dragon and lion dance, extreme sports (BMX freestyle, climbing), futsal (men and women), indoor cycling, indoor hockey (men), kabaddi and basketball (3 on 3).-- BERNAMA