Indonesia's Suryo Agung Wibowo added the 200m title to his 100m crown on a day of doubles for top athletes at the Southeast Asian Games yesterday.
Wibowo took an early lead in the 200m and then held off Thailand's Sittichai Suwonprateep at the finish to win in 20.76 seconds.
Vietnam's Vu Thi Huong also completed a sprint double with a comfortable victory in the women's 200m, clocking 23.47. She won the 100m on Friday.
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Vietnam's Nguyen Dinh Cuong captured the men's 1,500m to go with his 800m title, edging Malaysia's Vadivellan Mahendran with a time of 3 minutes, 45.31 seconds, breaking a 14-year-old Games record.
Indonesia's Triyaningsih got the day's final double, winning the women's 10,000m in 34.07.35 after also capturing the 5,000m.
Thailand's Wassana Winatho did one better, capturing her third gold medal of the meet by winning the heptathlon with a new Games record of 5,889 points. Her previous wins came in the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay.
A scheduling clash prevented her from going for a fourth gold as the 400m was held shortly after the final heptathlon run, and was won by Thailand's Saowalee Kaewchuy in 54.75.
Thailand also won the women's triple jump through Thitima Muangjun, who leaped 13.85m on her last attempt to surpass defending champion Sin Mei Ngew of Malaysia and set a new Games record.
In other events on the last day of athletics, Julius Felicisimo Nierras Jr of the Philippines won the men's 400m in 46.56, Thailand's Sanya Buathong took the men's javelin with 68.65 and Lee Hup Wei claimed the men's high jump for Malaysia with his third attempt at 2.19m.
Malaysia's Roslinda Samsu defended her women's pole vault title by jumping 4m and Singapore's Zhang Guirong won the women's shotput with a throw of 17.21m.
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