Chess has contributed the 12th gold medal for the Malaysian Contingent to the 30th SEA Games Philippines 2019.
Mr. Yeoh Li Tian contributed the 12th gold medal through Chess Men’s Rapid event.
Chess was contested in 4 previous SEA Games in 2003, 2005, 2011 and 2014.
Mr. Yeoh Li Tian has delivered the first ever gold medal for Chess in the history of our participation in the SEA Games.
The silver and bronze medals of this event were won by Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Mr. Nguyen Anh Khoi of Vietnam respectively.
The OCM would like to congratulate Mr. Yeoh Li Tian for his remarkable achievement.
Malaysia Boleh!
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Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi was born on the 8th of November 1938. After his retirement in 1991, as an Engineer in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Dato’ Sieh chose to continue his involvement, full time, in the field of sports, where his life-long passion was, especially in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).
Born on 21st March 1949, Y.A.M Tunku Tan Sri Imran is the second son of the late Tuanku Jaafar, an elected monarch of the Negeri Sembilan. Tunku Imran was educated in the UK at the King’s School, Canterbury and studied law at Nottingham University before being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1971 and qualifying as a Barrister at Law.