these KL SEA Games facts?

> This was the first time two Olympic champions and two world champions graced a SEA Games.

Rio Olympics shooting champion Hoang Xuan Vinh of Vietnam did not win but butterfly champion swimmer Joseph Schooling made it a perfect outing by winning all his six events in KL.

World champion cyclist Azizulhasni Awang delivered the 111th gold medal for Malaysia while world champion woman diver Cheong Jun Hoong breezed to the 1m

springboard individual title.

> Instead of a games village, all contingents were put up in nine hotels for Malaysia’s sixth hosting of the Games.

Hotel Renaissance housed the Malaysian contingent while Singapore put up at DoubleTree by Hilton. The other hotels were Royale Chulan (Brunei), Sunway Putra (Cambodia and the Philippines), Royale Chulan Bintang (Indonesia), Swiss Garden (Laos), Federal Kuala Lumpur (Myanmar), Hotel Istana (Thailand) and Hotel Berjaya Times Square (Timor-Leste and Vietnam).

> The Malaysian organisers broke tradition to give all medallists a basket with a sapling instead of a bouquet of flowers.

Aside from a medal, they would usually receive a bouquet and a plush mascot during the prizegiving ceremony.

> Vietnam’s “Little Mermaid” Nguyen Thi Anh Vien was the most outstanding athlete. The 20-yearold swimmer baggedgg eightg golds a d two silv ers, breaking seven SEA Gam mes records along the wa y. Anh Vien als so won eight go olds at the prev vious SEA Games inn

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in 2015. > Adam Yoong Hanifah, only nine, became the youngest Malaysian gold medallist at the KL Games after winning the men’s waterski tricks event.

But he is not the country’s youngest gold medallist ever. That would be his sister Aaliyah, who was only eight when she won the women’s waterski tricks event in Indonesia in 2011.

Aaliyah took home three gold medals in he KL Games.