The 2017 World Bowling Championships for men and women was held from November 25 through December 4 at South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Six disciplines were contested at this edition's championships. These were singles, doubles, trios, team, all-events and masters.
Southeast Asian bowlers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand competed at this world championships of bowling.
In the men's and women's singles events, our Southeast Asian (SEA) keglers were unable to advance in the semi final round. Futaba Imao from Japan won the women's singles title after defeating Mai Ginge Jensen of Denmark in the finals. While in the men's event, it was Xander van Mazijk of Netherlands who won the title beating Taipei's Hao-Ming Wu in the championship match.
For the doubles event, Shalin Zulkifli and Sin Li Jane of Malaysia won second place after a defeat against South Korea duo in the final match of the women's event. While Chris Barnes and Tommy Jones of the United States captured the men's doubles title
In Trio events, Indonesian trio of Putty Armein, Sharon Limansantoso and Tannya Roumimper reached the semi finals of the women's category but was halted to advance in the finals by team USA. Unfortunately for the men's trio, no SEA teams reached the semi final round.
In the team event, it was a sweet victory for Southeast Asia as team Singapore and Malaysia faced each other for title. At the end, it was the team from Malaysia composed of Syaidatul Afifah, Natasha Roslan, Siti Safiyah, Shalin Zulkifli and Li Jane Sin won outpowered team Singapore composed of Hui Fen New, Shayna Ng, Daphne Tan, Jazreel Tan and Cherie Tan. Team Singapore settled as runner up.
In Men's team of team, SEA teams were unlucky to go thru the semi finals. The team from United States won the event.
Malaysia's Ahmad Muaz reached the top 8 of the men's all event but sadly got not enough points to get into the top 3. Whereas of the women's side, Siti Safiyah of Malaysia won the silver medal after scoring a total of 5048.
For masters events, the women's event was dominated by Southeast Asia. Three bowlers got into the semi finals. Shyna Ng of Singapore settled for bronze after she was outscored by Dawun Jung of Korea while Indonesia's Sharon Limansantoso also settled also for bronze after a defeat from Malaysia's Li Jane Sin.
The finals of women's masters ended with Dawun Jung of Korea taking home the title. Li Jane Sin of Malaysia just placed second and won the silver medal.
Overall, our Southeast Asian women's bowlers were successful in their campaign especially the team from Malaysia who won 1 gold and 3 silver medals.
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