How do the Olympic champions show their class at the SEA Games?

How did the three Olympic champions participating in the 31st SEA Games perform?

They all performed very impressively from swimmer Joseph Schooling of Singapore to female weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz of the Philippines and boxer Panipak Wongpattanakit.

Thai boxer Panipak shows off the strength of an Olympic champion. Photo: CTP

Schooling swimmers come to Vietnam to attend SEA Games 31 is also the leading bird of swimming in Singapore. He brought home individual gold medals for swimming in Singapore, including the forte 100m butterfly, in which at the 2016 Rio Olympics he himself defeated the legendary Michael Phelps of the US to become the champion.

With Tokyo Taekwondo champion 49kg women, Panipak, in the final she met opponent Julius Dhaysi Oo of Myanmar and overwhelmed this opponent to 29-0.

Hidilyn Diaz won the SEA Games but could not break the SEA Games record. Photo: CTP

Particularly, the record holder Hidilyn Diaz, the Olympic champion in women’s weightlifting 56 kg at the Tokyo Olympics of the Philippines has also completed her task. With the achievement, 206kg through jerk and push, Diaz was crowned 56kg, in which the jerk was 92kg and the push was 114kg.

It should be added that this Philippine Olympic champion and record holder twice tried to break the SEA Games record but failed. That’s when I saw that even though she was the champion and Olympic record holder, on the SEA Games playground, Diaz could not break the SEA Games record.

This is Diaz’s second consecutive SEA Games gold medal, SEA Games 2019, the Philippine Air Force officer also won gold in this weight class.

Josheph Schooling after losing the gold medal 4x100m then he got other gold medals. Photo: CTP

Second place in the women’s 56kg category belonged to Sanikun Tanasan of Thailand with a record of 93kg in the recoil and 110kg in the push, with a total achievement of 203kg. The bronze medal belonged to Indonesian athlete Natasya Beteyob with a total record of 188kg.