Which sports are Southeast Asia's 2024 Olympic medal hopes placed on?
Báo Dân trí•20/11/2024
(Dan Tri) - As of the morning of August 3, after 7 official days of competition at the 2024 Olympics, Southeast Asia has not had any gold medals. But in reality, the strongest sports in this region have not reached their peak yet.
There are a total of 182 athletes from 11 Southeast Asian delegations at the 2024 Paris Olympics. As of the morning of August 3, they have not won any medals. However, this is not difficult to understand, because the strong sports of the region have not yet entered the competition, or have not reached the medal round. One of the strong sports of Southeast Asia is badminton. This sport did not enter the first medal competition until the early morning of August 3. Specifically, the Malaysian male athlete pair Soh Wooi Yik and Aaron Chia were present in the bronze medal match.
Panipak Wongpattanakit (Thailand) is a strong candidate for the gold medal in the women's 49kg category (Photo: Getty).
In the women's doubles, also in badminton, Peerly Tan and Thinaad Muralitharan of Malaysia also entered the bronze medal match. In the men's singles, reigning world champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thailand) is very strong, he is now in the quarterfinals. Meanwhile, in the women's singles, Yeo Jia Min (Singapore) and Mariska Tunjung (Indonesia) also have a chance to compete for a medal. Badminton will enter the peak of the medal competition from the morning of August 3 to the morning of August 6 (Vietnam time). Another sport in which Southeast Asian athletes are very strong is boxing, in the light weight categories. Both Thailand and the Philippines are world boxing powers. Boxing will not enter the medal competition stage until August 6, when Southeast Asian boxers will bring medals to the region. Thailand's medal hopes at the 2024 Paris Olympics include Thitisan Panmod (men's 51kg), Bunjong Sinsiri (63.5kg), Chuthamat Raksat (women's 50kg), Jutamas Jitpong (women's 54kg), Thananya Somnuek (women's 60kg) and Janjaem Suwannapheng (women's 66kg).
Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand) is very strong in golf (Photo: Reuters).
Another sport that will start very late at the 2024 Paris Olympics is taekwondo. It will not appear until August 7. Thailand currently has female boxer Panipak Wongpattanakit who is predicted to win a gold medal in the women's 49kg category. In weightlifting, Southeast Asia has two athletes who can win medals, both in the men's 61kg category, namely Trinh Van Vinh of Vietnam and Eko Yuli Irawan of Indonesia. This event will be played on August 7. In the women's singles event in golf, Thailand is very strong. The Thai golf team has a golfer who has won major titles (equivalent to the nature of Grand Slam titles in tennis) in Patty Tavatanakit. The women's singles event in golf will start on August 7 and last until August 10, just one day before the closing ceremony of this year's Olympics. That also means that it is not until the final days of competition that medals will come to Southeast Asian sports delegations, and even in large numbers.
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