Men’s Volleyball Wins Third Consecutive SEA Games Gold, 12th Overall

The Indonesian men’s volleyball national team successfully defended the SEA Games gold, after beating the host Cambodia in the 2023 SEA Games men’s volleyball final, Monday (8/5/2023). This is the third consecutive gold won by the Indonesian men’s volleyball team at the SEA Games, and the 12th overall.

Indonesia previously won its tenth gold at the 2019 Philippines SEA Games. At that time, the national team successfully defeated the host Philippines in the final with a score of 3-0.

Next in 2021, the men’s volleyball team also beat the hosts in the final with a score of 3-0. This time the victim was Vietnam.

The same thing happened again this year. The Indonesian men’s volleyball team defended the SEA Games gold medal after defeating hosts Cambodia 25-21, 25-10, 25-15.

The Indonesian men’s volleyball team dominates the Southeast Asian region. Overall, Indonesia won 12 gold, 7 silver and two bronze.

In second place is Thailand with 8 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze. This year they had to go home empty-handed after losing to Vietnam in the bronze medal match. The White Elephant Team is indeed experiencing a decline, having only won 1 bronze in the last three editions of the SEA Games.

Meanwhile, another country that has won gold is Myanmar, with 3 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze.

At the 2023 SEA Games volleyball match in Cambodia, the Indonesian national team really appeared full of enthusiasm. Host Cambodia had a hard time developing the game, especially the second and third sets.

Unfortunately, the victory was marred by the injury to Indonesian spiker Doni Haryono. The player from Central Java was injured on the first point. When memes, the position of the fall is not right so that his leg was injured.

His position was replaced by SEA Games debutant Fahri Septian, who appeared brilliant in this final.

The star of the match was Farhan Halim, who scored a lot of points from his serve. In addition, Farhan Halim is also difficult to stop when smes.

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