KUALA LUMPUR: Sepak takraw and chinlone competitions for this year’s Thailand SEA Games will be held at the Nakhon Pathom Municipality Stadium, near Bangkok.
Asian Sepaktakraw Federation (ASTAF) president Datuk Abdul Halim Kader said, the 4,000 capacity venue, which is about an hour-away from the capital city, has been selected to host the biennial event competitions from Dec 9-20.
He said Nakhon Pathom is a convenient location in terms of facilities, including the availability of a five-star hotel within a short distance to the venue.
“Further, Nakhon Pathom is hosting the SEA Games Tournament Management Committee, the International Sepaktakraw Federation (ISTAF) and the Tournament Technical Service Committee among others.
“Technically, ASTAF is fully confident that the sepak takraw and chinlone events will be run professionally, where ASTAF will continue to impose the use of the Challenge Camera with improvement of allocation of challenge system,” he said in a statement, today.
Meanwhile, Abdul Halim said the SEA Games Federation (SEAGF) Council and Thailand SEA Organising Committee have approved the men’s and women’s team regu, regu, quadrant, hoop, and mix quadrant events in sepak takraw, as well as the men’s and women’s chinlone (linking) to be contested at the Games. – BERNAMA
