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The 24th South East Asian Games (also known as SEA Games) was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from December 6 to December 15 2007.

The Thai Olympic Committee planned the event to coincide with the commemoration of 80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Officials studied the possibility of doing the events in multiple venues like what was done in Vietnam and the Philippines. It was the sixth time Thailand has hosted the SEA Games. Thailand had hosted the 1959 (inaugural games), 1967, 1975, 1985 and 1995 SEA Games. The 2007 games were to be hosted in Singapore, but the city-state gave up the chance in 2004 as the National Stadium was slated for demolition in around that time to build the Singapore Sports Hub.

Aside from Nakhon Ratchasima, events were held at Bangkok[2] and at Chonburi.[3]

Preparations

On February 24, 2006, northeast Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima Province authorities met to discuss the 2007 SEA Games schedule, and progress on the province's under-construction US$65 million sports complex. Presided over by governor Somboon Ngamlak, the meeting provided an overview of facilities, and ended with reassurances that facilities would be ready for SEA Games in 2007.

Medal summary

¹ - not an official Olympic Sport
² - sport played only in the SEAG
³ - not a traditional Olympic nor SEAG Sport and introduced only by the host country.
° - a former official Olympic Sport, not applied in previous host countries and was introduced only by the host country.
 ʰ - sport not played in the previous edition and was reintroduced by the host country.

Participating nations

Country Athletes Officials
IOC Code Name Men Women Total Men Women Total
BRU Brunei Brunei Darussalam 51 10 61 44 2 46
CAM Cambodia Cambodia 161 71 232 64 4 68
INA Indonesia Indonesia 369 205 574 160 28 188
LAO Laos Laos 246 168 414 186 35 221
MAS Malaysia Malaysia 494 326 820 239 55 294
MYA Myanmar Myanmar 292 214 506 156 35 191
PHI Philippines Philippines 373 247 620 143 32 175
SIN Singapore Singapore 262 180 442 165 51 216
THA Thailand Thailand 540 442 982 342 65 407
TLS East Timor Timor Leste 7 - 7 8 - 8
VIE Vietnam Vietnam 331 293 624 152 17 169
Total 3126 2156 5282 1659 324 1983

Corporate Sponsors

Media Broadcasters

Indonesia-

Malaysia-

Philippines-NBN

Singapore-Channel 5

Thailand-Channel 7

Vietnam-VTV

Controversies

  • The 24th Southeast Asian Games is most protested games in the entire history of the games especially on the 10 day showpiece was overshadowed by claims of unfair judging.[13]
  • Thai male field hockey player, Surathep Wisawathiron became the first athlete tested positive for using methyltestosterone.[14]
  • Also, the Thai gymnast athlete, Panaporn Kosol tested positive for steroids .[15]
  • Malaysia withdrew from all Sepak Takraw events after they disapproved of the use of a new rubber ball. Sepak Takraw usually uses a ball made out of rattan. This led to Thailand winning several of the Sepak Takraw events. But there had also been claims Malaysia was concerned that its youthful teams might have struggled to compete.[16]
  • Mary Antoinette Rivero of the Philippines was defeated 7-4 by Cassandra Haller of Thailand in women's taekwondo under-65-kilogram category; Rivero was actually leading by three points in the third round and floored Haller but Haller was given the points by the judges. This led to the disgust of the other Filipino taekwondo-jins that they walked out of the venue.[17]
  • The Philippines staged a massive walkout in the finals of the Boxing events to signal their displeasure against the judges and officials for biased judging during the women's boxing bout a day earlier.[18] Two out of seven Filipino boxers didn't answer the bell for round 1 while 4 others didn't answer the bell for succeeding rounds on their gold medal matches against their Thai opponents, thus forfeiting their bouts in favor of the Thais.[19] Only Boonjumnong's opponent, Larry Semilano, fought the entire match, losing to his Thai opponent on points.[20]

References

  1. ^ HOME PAGE - SEA Games 2007 Information Center Nakhon Ratchasima THAILAND
  2. ^ Bangkok competitions map
  3. ^ Chonburi competitions map
  4. ^ SEA Games: Thailand looks to consolidate medals lead
  5. ^ SEA Games: Malaysia hopes to bag 64 gold medals
  6. ^ Vietnam remains second at SEA Games
  7. ^ SEA Games: Indonesia set modest target of 65 gold medals
  8. ^ SEA Games: Team Singapore targeting 35 to 45 gold medals
  9. ^ Thailand set to extend host domination at Southeast Asian Games
  10. ^ Organizing committee reports sports stadium ready for the Games
  11. ^ Venues construction updates
  12. ^ SEA Games list of sports by the Korat Post
  13. ^ SEA Games ends with hosts Thailand topping medal table
  14. ^ Thai field hockey prayer tests positive in Southeast Asian Games doping test
  15. ^ Thai pair kicked out of SEA Games after failed drugs tests
  16. ^ Thailand sweeps gold in sepak takraw at SEA Games
  17. ^ GMA News relates 'unfair' loss of RP jin at SEA Games taekwondo
  18. ^ SEA Games: Boxing chaos mars Thai gold success
  19. ^ RP boxers forfeit golds in walkout at SEA Games
  20. ^ RP boxers' forfeiture of final matches stirs up SEA Games
Preceded by
2005
Manila, Los Baños, Cebu, Bacolod, Philippines 		Southeast Asian Games Succeeded by
2009
Vientiane, Laos
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