Elaine failed to live up to expectations but Chew Chan kept her end of the bargain to deliver the second gold yesterday from the women's middleweight competition.
NO PROBLEM: Taekwondo exponent Che Chew Chan won gold in the middleweight category.
The other gold, an unexpected one, came from Rusfredy Tokan Petrus in the flyweight competition on Tuesday.
On the final day of the taekwondo programme at the Cuneta Astrodome in Manila, Chew Chan romped to a 6-1 victory over the Philippines' Veronica Domingo to claim the gold medal.
The 23-year-old Johorean had seen off the challenge of Vietnam's Tran Thi Ngoc Tram, winning 2-1 in the semi-finals.
Team manager M. Rajendran said: “Chew Chan was expected to bag us a gold in Manila and she did not disappoint us at all.
“She was hardly troubled by her opponent in the final. She was in a class of her own to cruise to an easy victory.”
It was the 23-year-old Chew Chan's third appearance in the SEA Games. She was the gold medallist in the 2001 Games in Kuala Lumpur and took the bronze in Vietnam two years ago.
The team will return home with a haul of 2-0-5.
The men's bronze medallists were Mohd Afifuddin Omar Sidek (bantam), Syed Taufiq Abdul Hamid (feather) and Wong Kai Meng (welter).
The women, who contributed bronze medals were A. Gayathiri (welter) and Noornadia Norrizan (bantam).
Source from http://www.thestar.com.my
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