Malaysia at the 1979 SEA Games

Malaysia at the
1979 Southeast Asian Games
Malaysia at the; 1979 Southeast Asian Games
IOC code	MAS
NOC	Olympic Council of Malaysia
Website	www.olympic.org.my (in English)
in Jakarta
Competitors	260 in 18 sports
Medals; Ranked 5th	Gold 19 Silver 23 Bronze 39 Total 81
Southeast Asian Games appearances (overview)
	1959; 1961; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1969; 1971; 1973; 1975; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985; 1987; 1989; 1991; 1993; 1995; 1997; 1999; 2001; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2021; 2023;

Malaysia competed in the 1979 Southeast Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 21 to 30 September 1979.

Medal summary edit

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Archery	0	0	1	1	5
Athletics	10	0	0	10
Badminton	0	1	2	3	3
Basketball	1	1	0	2	1
Football	1	0	0	1	1
Table tennis	0	1	0	1	3
Total	19	23	39	81	5

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Rabuan Pit	Athletics	Men's 400 metres
Gold	Ho Yoon Wah	Athletics	Men's high jump
Gold	Muthiah Dattaya	Athletics	Men's hammer throw
Gold	Ballang Lasung	Athletics	Men's javelin throw
Gold	Vellasamy Subramaniam	Athletics	Men's 10,000 metres track walk
Gold	Vellasamy Subramaniam	Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres road walk
Gold	Marina Chin Leng Sim	Athletics	Women's 100 metres hurdles
Gold	Gladys Chai Ng Mei	Athletics	Women's high jump
Gold	Paramasivam Sakthirani	Athletics	Women's 10,000 metres track walk
Gold	Marina Chin Leng Sim V. Angamah Zaiton Othman Saik Oik Cum	Athletics	Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
Gold	Malaysia national basketball team	Basketball	Women's tournament
Gold	Malaysia national football team Hamid Ramli Jamal Nasir D. Davendran Soh Chin Aun Santokh Singh Shukor Salleh Abdah Alif Hassan Sani James Wong Mokhtar Dahari Hassan Yahya Abdullah Ramli R. Arumugam Wan Jamak Wan Hassan G. Torayraju Isa Bakar	Football	Men's tournament
Silver	Malaysia national badminton team	Badminton	Men's team
Silver	Malaysia national basketball team	Basketball	Men's tournament
Silver	Chong Suk Fong	Table tennis	Women's singles
Bronze	Suhaili Yusuf	Archery	Men's individual recurve 90 metre
Bronze	Misbun Sidek Ong Beng Teong	Badminton	Men's doubles
Bronze	Malaysia national badminton team	Badminton	Women's team