YANGON, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar will send about 600-member sports delegation to participate in the upcoming 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Thailand slated for Dec. 6-15, according to an official of the Myanmar Ministry of Sports on Saturday.
Aimed at getting more medals than previous editions, the Myanmar sports delegation including about 400 athletes will compete in 29 sports events in the 24th SEA Games, Competition and Training Director U Naw Thaung of the Sport and Physical Education Department told Xinhua.
Myanmar sports authorities are considering completing one more sports event, gymnastics in the SEA Games, he said.
The 29 sports events are baseball, hockey, track and field, archery, billiard and snooker, boxing, soccer, futsal, swimming, diving, judo, karatedo, pencak silat, sepak takraw, golf, Muay Thai, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, taekwondo, tennis, weightlifting, wushu, yachting, rowing, canoeing/kayat, traditional rowing, cycling and bodybuilding.
"It is too early to say the total categories of sports events Myanmar would compete and how many medals the country can expect for in the 24th SEA Games," he said, adding that "I can tell them in the first week or middle of November".
Eleven countries -- Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, host Thailand, Vietnam and Timor Leste in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region will take part in the 24th SEA Games.
At the 23rd SEA Games held in the Philippines in 2005, Myanmar ranked seventh out of ten ASEAN countries in the medal table with 17 golds, 34 silvers and 48 bronzes.
