Sporting events in Brunei Darussalam, "Abode of Peace": 2008

Ma'al Hijriah & Happy New Year

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008 will be another history for Brunei Darussalam in sports achievement. For the last 12 months period, we did participated in various of sporting events regionally as well as in the world competitions. The sweet moment will be also when we successfully hosting some great and big sporting events. I personally think that through these achievements, our country has re-established as one of the most pre-eminent and established small nations of the world.

In 2008 Brunei Darussalam was known regionally, and indeed across the world, through sporting event participations. Brunei Darussalam is so small that even the slightest of gains can be monumental. We shall see truly mighty gains this coming year.

This coming year then, we shall look forward for a brighter world in sports achievement. Through sports also hopes we could gains our solidarity with the neighbor countries while maintaining our peace-full home, prosperity and security.....happy new year people.

For a few days to come on the new year, I will be putting a sporting events for the year 2009.

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16th ASEAN Prisons Track & Field Championships

Friday, December 19, 2008

Today remarks the start of the 16th ASEAN Prisons Track & Field Championships. The opening ceremony was held at the Indoor Stadium, Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex, Berakas. Pehin Orang Kaya Dewa Pahlawan Dato Paduka Awang Haji Dani bin Haji Ibrahim, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Brunei Darussalam was present as the guest of honour.

More pictures will be added soon...

The sport events will run for three days as of today 19th december 2008 and schedule to end on 21 december 2008. Brunei Darussalam hosted the prestigious biennially sport events twice in 1990 and 1998. This year for the third times, our nation is honoured to host again. All events will be held at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium, Berakas.

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16 Teams confirmed their place at quarter-final

Monday, December 15, 2008

Yesterday saw a second DS-Futsal Tournament matches for the groups E, F, G & H. Will update on the final results some other time. For now, here are few actions from yesterday matches.

No 23 Striking the ball, Photo courtesy of Abd Aziz Abd Razak, BS Team Manager

Double Eye In Control	Restless Red Knights

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8 better teams proceed to the next round

Sunday, December 14, 2008

34 teams from the first group match failed to proceed to the next round yesterday. At the same time, congratulations to the top two teams from team groups A, B, C & D for the qualifying.

Picture with the courtesy of DS

Next match for the remaining 36 teams will resumes tomorrow morning as early as 8am at UBD Sports Complex. Again, the first two teams from each group to finished top and second from the table will proceed to the quarter final the next week, and for sure to compete for the first ever title. The last 16 teams will for sure promised an exciting games....lets see the game!!!

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DS - Holiday Futsal Tournament 2008

Monday, December 8, 2008

In conjunction to the end-of-term school holiday in Brunei Darussalam, one of the footbal association in Brunei & Muara district, named Dragon Sword will be organising a 3 days futsal tournament. 68 teams, will compete the three days event which will be held at Sports Complex, University Brunei Darussalam.

Before the game begins, a group decider ballot were held at Dewan Kuliah, Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium on Sunday, 7 December 2008 at 8 pm. The groups were divided into eight teams. First four games will commenced on Friday, 12 December, morning and afternoon sessions. Each team consists of eight teams to compete for the first two top table to qualify for the quarter-final rounds.

Next match will be kickoff on 14th December. The remaining four groups will consists of 9 teams each. After the two days round robin games, the tournament is scheduled to resumes on Sunday, 21st December 2008. The last 16 teams will have to pass the quarter-final before proceeds to the semi-final and then to the final rounds for the first title in DS-Holiday Futsal Tournament history.

The DS - Holiday Futsal Champion will bagged B$800. runner-up teams will received B$500 and B$300 for the third place. Hope to see good games throughout the tournaments. Good luck to all participants!!! and well done in advance to DS for organising such tournaments.

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The 9th Southeast Asian Fencing Federation Championships (SEAFF) which was held at the National Indoor Stadium in Berakas will project Brunei Darussalam ability in organising such events. The first time Brunei hosting such events was back in 2005 for the 7th SEAFF. The Championship was participated by Indonesia, Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The game started on 3rd December and will be ended on 12th December 08. The next big fencing games will be held at Laos during the Sea Games.

To history, Fencing was first introduced in the South East Asia Games at Jarkarta in 1987. Five countries which took part in the fencing event decided to form an association. By then, SEAFF was formed on 12th September 1987 in Jarkarta, Indonesia.

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6th BIMP-EAGA Medal Tally

It has been a week that I couldn't update the sport news. Something has come up last week. Now here is the medadl tally for the 6th BIMP-EAGA which come to an end last sunday, 30th November 2008. Hosting the 6th game for the first time, Brunei Darussalam 'A' only managed to bag 12 gold, 9 silver and 14 bronze. While Brunei Darussalam 'B' finished with 6 silver and 2 bronze medals. Keep up the sports spirits.

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Pencak Silat Final

Sunday, November 30, 2008

After day two, Brunei bagged 4 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze from the Pencak Silat, where 48 medals were put to stake. Three categories will resumes this morning which will begins with Awaluddin – S. Sulawesi vs M. Agus Hayatullah from S. Kalimantan for ‘A’ Class men category. Followed by the ‘B’ class women category will saw Faizawati Rahdar from S. Sulawesi Vs Sainah Rahman of Sarawak. The final events will be the Brunei ‘B’ athletes Md Azmi Dzulkifli vs Ahmad Jayadi from S. Sulawesi for ‘B’ class men category.

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It's Sunday....The Games ended...

Today 30th December will remarks the final day for the 6th BIMP-EAGA Firendship Games in Brunei Darussalam. All the 7 competitives event will resume where most of the games will enter its final rounds. Listed below would be the schedule games for today:-

Badminton will be started as early as 8.30 in the morning at the Indoor Stadium
Four games will be played for Futsal events. The first game is expected to commence by 8am. Venue would be Multi-Purpose Hall, Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex, Berakas.
Athletics final events will be held at track and field, Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex, Berakas.
The most events that Brunei hopes on bagging more medals is Pencak Silat. Kick-off at 9am, todays events would presents the final round for all categories, where expected to be completed by 2pm.
For Aquatics event, there will be only swimming left to be contested today with 8 categories in the final round. 400m men/women Freestyles, 100m men/women butterfly, 50m men/women freestyle, 4 x 100m men Individual Medly and 4 x 100m women individual Medley.
Sepak Takraw will be held at Sungai Kebun Sports Complex. Contesting 2 events, Regu & Double for the final round. First game would be started at 9am.
Then the team competition for Tenis should begins at 9am at tenis centre Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex, Berakas.

As for the closing ceremony would be held at the Indoor Stadium by 4pm. The stadium is open to public to give the morale supports. The Honourable Pehin Orang Kaya Setia Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Dr Awang Haji Ahmad bin Haji Jumat, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Brunei Darussalam will be the guest of Honour to officially ended the game before handed game flag to the next game host nation.

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Day Two BIMP-EAGA

Saturday, November 29, 2008

For today, only manage to cover the Futsal and Badminton events at Multi-Purpose Hall and Indoor Stadium, Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex at Berakas respectively.

For the Group A, Brunei Team 'B' beat Sarawak 8-7 at the preliminary round. The Brunei Team 'A' easily through to the quarter final after thrashing Sabah 12-2.

Brunei Team 'A' being brief by coach

Sabah Team	Brunei Team A thrash Sabah 12-2

While for the Brunei badminton, the team failed to proceed to the next level after beaten 3-0 to the Indonesian group.

Jaspar Yu & Ak Halim

Indoor Stadium

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Inside Indoor Stadium

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Less than 24 hours before the games started, I was physically inside the house again to accompany friend and finalize some unfinished duty with regards to the game preparations. Got some chances to snap some shots and might be worth sharing here..'sorry for the pic's quality, im only armed with HTC Diamond'. Here we go....

main entrance	medal tally table

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BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games

The big up-coming sports event in the state will be the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines-East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Friendship Games. The game will commenced on Friday, 28 November 2008 with the opening ceremony to be held at the Indoor Stadium, Berakas in the morning.

Held every two years, for the 6th edition, Brunei was given the honor to host the festive as a first time. Seven games will be contested namely athletics, aquatic sports (swimming and diving), badminton, futsal, pencak silat, sepak takraw and tennis.

Our nation will be represented by 67 and 56 aheletes from the 'A' and 'B' team respectively.

As for other participants, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Papua and West Papua will presenting Indonesia.

Malaysia will be sending contingents from Sabah, Sarawak and the Federal Territory of Labuan, while The Philippines will be sending athletes from Mindanao & Palawan.

Where else for the invitational team throughout the three days event, Australia will be represented by the Northern Territory itself.

In total 240 medals will be put on the stake. 76 gold, 76 silver and 78 bronze medals for individuals events, where other 3 gold & silver as well as 4 bronze will be contested in team events.