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(KPL) As of 8 June, 2015, 6.50 PM, Laos had already won a total of 13 medals – 3 silver and 10 bronze – at the South East Asian Games (SEA Games) 2015 being held in Singapore.
Laos is ranked 9th on the list ahead of Brunei and Timor Leste. The host country, Singapore, took the lead with 34 gold medals, followed by Vietnam and Thailand with 24 and 23 gold medals, respectively.
(KPL) As of 8 June, 2015, 6.50 PM, Laos had already won a total of 13 medals – 3 silver and 10 bronze – at the South East Asian Games (SEA Games) 2015 being held in Singapore.
Laos is ranked 9th on the list ahead of Brunei and Timor Leste. The host country, Singapore, took the lead with 34 gold medals, followed by Vietnam and Thailand with 24 and 23 gold medals, respectively.
Lao athletes have been participating in more than 300 disciplines of 20 sports out of 402 disciplines of 36 sports this year.
The Ministry of Education and Sports has hopes to win 5-7 gold medals at the 28th SEA Games or Singapore Games. It announced in April that it would send 200 athletes to compete in 20 categories of the 28th SEA Games.
The 20 categories include football, swimming, track and field, snooker
and billiards, boxing, cycling, archery, fencing, golf, judo, rugby,
pétanque, shooting, taekwondo, tennis, wushu, sepak takraw-chinlone,
pencak silat, table tennis, and badminton. The ministry has said that the most hopeful sports include pétanque, taekwondo, judo, wushu, cycling, archery and snooker.
Lao athletes won 13 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 49 bronze medals in the 27th Sea Games in Myanmar. As a result the Lao PDR was ranked 8 out of 11 in the games.
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