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Triyaningsih reclaims SEAG gold
Triyaningsih regained her dominance of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Gamesâ womenâs 5,000 meters by winning the race at the National Stadium on Tuesday
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span class="inline inline-center">Triyaningsih regained her dominance of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games' women's 5,000 meters by winning the race at the National Stadium on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old Indonesian marathoner had won the same event in 2007, 2009 and 2011, but relinquished the title to Myanmarese Phyu War Thet in 2013.
She scored 16 minutes and 18.06 seconds to earn Indonesia a second gold in the track and field competition in which she had to hold off challenges by Thet and fellow Indonesian Rini Budiarti.
Thet finished in third place with 16:54.71 behind Rini with 16:54.71. She said that she was happy she could reclaim the women's 5,000-meter title for Indonesia in the biennial multi-sport event.
'At last I won it back. This is clearly the fruit of my hard training and confidence during the race,' the beaming Triyaningsih said.
She took the attack initiative by taking lead early in the first four laps. She was outpaced by Rini in the fifth lap before she overtook her again in the seventh before racing to the finish.
It was Indonesia's second gold following Hendro's victory in the men's 200-meter walk on Saturday.
Indonesia could have won a third gold in the men's 5,000 meters, but Agus Prayogo melted before the finish line. He was leading with half a lap to be completed when he let Nguyen Van Lai overtake him.
'He has good acceleration. I was perplexed when he overlapped me. I thought I could already have drained him. I was wrong,' Agus said.
Agus was 11 seconds behind Van Lai, who finished in 14:04.82 minutes. Thailand's Namkhet Sanchai won bronze with a time of 14:40.59.
Agus will be back on the track to compete in the 10,000 meters. He won gold in the 5,000-meter and the 10,000-meter races in 2011.
'Hopefully, I can give a better result,' he said.
The Philippines had Eric Shauwn Cray and Kayla Anise Richardson as their fastest man and woman in the region when they won their 100-meter sprints.
Caleb John Christian Stuart won the men's hammer throw as the Philippines came out with the most gold winners on that day.
Thailand won two golds while Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia each grabbed one.
Cray won the men's 100-meter in a time of 10.25 seconds, leaving the Indonesian duo of Boby Yaspi and Iswandi in second and third place, both in 10.45 seconds.
Cray's time is still below Indonesian Suryo Agung Wibowo's record of 10.17 established in Laos 2009.
Kayla Anise Richardson won the women's 100 meters in a time of 11.76 seconds, while Indonesian Tri Utami could only finish in seventh place among eight runners with a time of 12.02 seconds.
The games' record of 11.28 seconds is still held by Lydia de Vega of the Philippines, who made it in 1987.
Stuart set up a new games record in the hammer throw with a distance of 65.63 meters, shattering the old record of 62.23 meters made by Tantipong Phetchaiya of Thailand in Myanmar 2013.
'I want to put in the same amount of effort I did today and go for my personal best in the shot put event tomorrow,' Stuart told The Straits Times.
'My goal is to reach world class level but I am not there yet.' The 24-year-old is still some way off this year's longest hammer throw, 82.76 set by Poland's Pawel Fajdek.
Thailand's golds were won by Mingkamon Koomphin in the women's hammer throw and by Porranot Purahong in men's pole vaulting.
Muhammad Hakimi Ismail delivered gold for Malaysia after winning the men's triple jump.
