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SINGAPORE: Li Yue Long and Tabitha Yeo delivered Singapore’s maiden SEA Games gold in the mixed recurve team event final on Wednesday (Dec 17).<\/span><\/p>\n Singapore beat Malaysia 6-2 at the Sports Authority of Thailand’s football field in Bangkok to take the top prize.<\/span><\/p>\n According to data from the Singapore National Olympic Committee, the previous best in the mixed recurve team event was a silver medal at the 2013 SEA Games, while Contessa Loh won Singapore’s sole archery gold in the women’s individual event three years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The mixed recurve team beat the Philippines and Indonesia en route to the final. <\/span>Mixed recurve is when one male archer and one female archer shoot together while using recurve bows. Such bows have limbs that curve away from the archer at the tips.<\/p>\n Separately, Yeo lost 6-4 to Vietnam\u2019s Dao Thi Loc in the bronze medal match of the women\u2019s individual recurve event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n This is Singapore’s first archery medal of the Thailand Games, with the nation’s archers contesting two more finals – women’s compound team and women’s compound individual – on Thursday, along with the mixed compound team who will play for the bronze.<\/span><\/p>\n Madeleine Ong will face Indonesia\u2019s Ashrifah Nurisa Dian in the women\u2019s compound final.<\/span><\/p>\n In a Facebook post, the Archery Association of Singapore congratulated the mixed recurve team for securing gold.<\/span><\/p>\n