While Katrina didn’t disappoint, winning the solo technical gold, it was the Negri Sembilan team who sprang the biggest surprise by bagging the team technical routine gold.
Led by international Gan Zhen Yu, the team, comprising Wong Xin Ying, Tan Jia Hui, Tan Jia Jih, Wong Mei Teng, Chai Jia Yue, Gan Hua Wei and Nur Faqihah Abdul Halim, were fully focused as they amassed 70.9 points to emerge champions. Favourites and defending champions Penang could only manage 69.7 points to settle for the silver.
Federal Territories, coached by 2011 SEA Games gold medallist Shareen Png, took the bronze after accumulating 63 points.
“It’s a great achievement for us because Penang beat us to the gold in the last Sukma two years ago,” said Negri’s Hu Shu Xia, the coach of the team for the past seven years.
“It was never easy at all to win the gold but my girls trained really hard for it. I think what made the difference this time was that we made a lot of changes in terms of music style and choreography. Penang, on the other hand, pretty much stuck to the same routine they used two years ago.
“I’m really proud to see these girls win ... especially having coached them since they were little and watched them grow up,” added Shu Xia.
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