8th Southeast Asia Pencak Silat Championship 2022

 

 

The 8th Southeast Asia Pencak Silat Championships was held at the OCBC Arena in Singapore from February 25 to 27.

 

There were five Southeast Asian countries that participated in the 3-day competition and these were Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and host Singapore.

 

Team Singapore emerged as the overall champion bagging 11 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals. Vietnam came in second place overall with 9 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Indonesia who occupied the third position clinched nine medals in total (3 golds - 3 silvers - 3 bronzes) while Malaysia bagged two gold, six silver and four bronze medals.

 

And lastly, Thailand got a silver and three bronze medals. 

 

The event was used by some SEA countries to test and measure their possible opponents since pencak silat is one of the forty sports that will be featured at the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam.

 

SEA Games will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and other neighboring provinces and will have its opening ceremony on May 12 with eleven participating Southeast Asia countries.