2016 Sukma Games

The 2016 Sukma Games, officially known as the 18th Sukma Games was a Malaysian multi-sport event held in Sarawak. This was Sarawak's second time to host the Sukma Games, and its first time since 1990.

XVIII Sukma Games
Host citySarawak
MottoPerpaduan dalam Kepelbagaian
(Unity in Diversity)
Teams participating15
Athletes participating5670
Events382 in 24 sports
Opening ceremony23 July
Closing ceremony31 July
Officially opened byAbdul Taib Mahmud
Governor of Sarawak
Officially closed byAhmad Zahid Hamidi
Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Main venueSarawak Stadium
Website2016 Sukma Games

The games was held from 23 to 31 July 2016, although several events had commenced from 19 July 2016. Around 5670 athletes from 13 states, Federal Territory and Brunei participated at the games which featured 382 events in 24 sports. The games was opened by Abdul Taib Mahmud, the governor of Sarawak at the Sarawak Stadium.

The final medal tally was led by Selangor, followed by host Sarawak and Terengganu. 6 national and 67 games records were broken during the games. Malaccan sprinter Khairul Hafiz Jantan and Terengganuan archer Nur Aqilah Yusof were announced as best sportsman and best sportswoman of the games respectively.

Host city
Sarawak as the host of the 2016 Sukma Games

Sarawak was chosen to host the games in 2013 during a Ministry of youth and sports meeting chaired by Khairy Jamaluddin. It had previously hosted the 1990 Sukma Games where it emerged as overall champion.[1]

Development and preparation

The Sarawak Sukma Games Organising Committee was formed to oversee the staging of the event.

Venues
Sarawak Stadium, venue of the athletics and the opening and closing ceremonies for the 18th Sukma Games
Opening ceremony of SUKMA Games Village at UNIMAS

The 2016 Sukma Games used a mix of new and existing venues. Most venues were existing public-sporting facilities, while others were newly constructed venues. Some retrofitting work were done in venues which are more than a decade old. They were reverted to public use after the games. Some had been used to host multi-disciplinary events such as the 1990 Sukma Games.[2][3][4]

At the centrepiece of the activities was the upgraded Petra Jaya Sports Complex. Incorporating the 40,000-seat Sarawak Stadium, it hosts most of the events. A games village was not built, instead athletes and officials were housed in universities across Sarawak such as Universiti Malaysia Sarawak which was chosen to be the official games village. Besides being physically near to the competition venues, it was hoped that it will add vibe to the host cities and reduce post-games costs in converting a dedicated games village to other uses.[5]

The 18th Sukma Games had 24 venues for the games: 17 in Kuching, 3 in Samarahan, 2 each in Miri and Sibu respectively.

Division Competition Venue Sports
KuchingPetra Jaya Sports Complex
Sarawak Stadium Opening and closing ceremony, Athletics
Sarawak State Stadium Football
Field D Football
Petra Jaya Unity Stadium Taekwondo, Gymnastics (Artistic)
Pandalela Rinong Aquatics Stadium Aquatics
Sarawak Lawn Bowls Arena Lawn bowls
Petra Jaya Hockey Stadium Hockey (Men)
Sarawak Petanque Centre Petanque
Sarawak Shooting Centre Shooting
Others
Kuching South City Council Stadium Gymnastics (Rhythmic), Boxing
Paku High School Hockey Field Hockey (Women)
Bukit Siol Kuching, Politeknik Matang, Federal Administrative Center Cycling
Sarawak Lawn Tennis Association Tennis
Chung Hua Primary School No. 3 Wushu
Sarawak Squash Court Squash
Emart Megalanes Bowling Centre, Batu Kawa Bowling
Sarawak Golf Club Golf
Samarahan Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Archery, Football
Kota Samarahan Indoor Stadium Pencak silat
Universiti Teknologi MARA Weightlifting
Miri Miri City Stadium Karate, Sepak takraw
Marina Bay Miri Sailing
Sibu Sibu Prudential Volleyball Association Stadium[6] Volleyball
Sibu Indoor Stadium Badminton

Volunteers

The organisers estimated that about 4,000 volunteers between the age of 18 and 60 are needed to successfully host the games.[7]

Countdown

The countdown to the games began on 22 July 2015 at the Baitul Makmur in Petra Jaya, Kuching during the press conference of the games to mark the one year countdown to the games.[8] A launch party was held on 20 October 2015 at the Meritz Hotel in Miri in conjunction with the 2013 and 2014 Sarawak state sports awards where the logo, theme and mascots were introduced.[9] Begin December 2015, Pre-Games tournaments were held across Sarawak for Sukma Games sports events.[10]

Baton relay

A baton relay was held statewide, began with the town of Lawas on 13 February 2016 at 9 am (MST), passed through several cities in Sarawak and ends in Kuching on 23 April 2016.[11]

Public transport

Shuttle bus services, Rapid KL Buses were provided throughout the games and were used to ferry athletes and officials to and from the airport, games venues and games village.[12]

Marketing

Motto

The motto of the 2016 Sukma Games is "Unity in diversity". It was chosen to represent the unity of the athletes from the 14 states of Malaysia and Brunei, technical officers, assisting staffs and volunteers of the games of different races and backgrounds.

'Satria' and 'Satrina', the official mascot.

The logo of the 2016 Sukma Games is an image of a hornbill, the state bird of Sarawak. The hornbill on the logo and colours of the flag of Sarawak, red, yellow and black, represents Sarawak as host of the Sukma Games while the element of the sun of the logo represents the participating athlete's speed and agility.[13]

Mascot

The official mascots of the 2016 Sukma Games is a pair of hornbills named Satria (male) and Satrina (female) respectively, which were designed by Amir Hassan Mohd Shah. It is said that Sarawak is known by many as "Bumi Kenyalang" or the "Land of the Hornbills" with the hornbills regarded as the symbol of the state. The adoption of Hornbills as the games' mascot is to represent the state of Sarawak as the games' host state.[14]

Songs

The theme song of the games is "Berpadu Menyahut Cabaran" (United In Facing Challenges).

The games

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on Saturday, 23 July 2016, beginning at 20:30 MST (UTC+8) at the Sarawak Stadium. The ceremony began with Yang di-Pertua Negeri Abdul Taib Mahmud and his wife, Toh Puan Raghad Kurdi Taib entered the stadium in a buggy car and the playing of the national anthem of Malaysia and the state anthem of Sarawak. This was followed by a countdown performance, an opener performance combining light dance, laser projection technology and firework display with the theme beautiful Sarawak and Sarawak Sukma Games. Later, a parade of athletes led by the games volunteers was held, began with the invitational contingent, Brunei, followed by all the states of Malaysia with host Sarawak enters the stadium last. After sports minister Khairy Jamaluddin and the then Chief Minister Adenan Satem gave their respective speech, a baton relay by Sarawak famous athletes was held began with Ramli Ahmad of Pencak silat, Wong Tee Kui of athletics, Sapok Biki of boxing, Edmund Yeo of weightlifting, Mohamad Azlan Iskandar of squash, Daniel Bego of swimming, Bryan Nickson Lomas of diving, Assri Azri Marzuki of tennis, Watson Nyambek of athletics and Tania Bugo of swimming. After Abdul Taib Mahmud declared the games opened, Watson and Tania placed the baton on the pedestal to lit up the cauldron. After the cauldron was lit, the games flag was raised by Royal Malaysian navy personnel, followed by Bon Yusuf performing the games' theme song, Berpadu Menyahut Cabaran accompanied by violinist, Nisa Addina Mohd Taufik. This was followed by pledge recitation and dance performance by Kuching students with the theme "Unity in Diversity". The ceremony ended with a musical firework performance for 7 minutes.[15][16][17][18][19]

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony was held on Sunday, 31 July 2016, beginning at 20:30 MST (UTC+8) at the Sarawak Stadium. The ceremony begins with volunteers leading the athletes enter the stadium began with the invitational contingent, Brunei, followed by all the states of Malaysia with host Sarawak enters the stadium last. This was followed by the arrival of guests including Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Khairy Jamaluddin and Adenan Satem, the playing of the national anthem of Malaysia and the state anthem of Sarawak. After a series of performance and Khairy gave his speech, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi gave his speech and declared the games closed. Later, Khairul Hafiz Jantan of athletics from Malacca and Nur Aqilah of archery from Terengganu were announced as best sportsman and best sportswoman respectively. Selangor was also announced as the overall champion of the games, beating host Sarawak. After the games flag lowered by Royal Malaysian Navy personnel and the cauldron extinguished, the Sukma Games responsibility was handed over to Perak, host of the 2018 Sukma Games where Zambry Abdul Kadir received the games flag as its symbolisation. A Perak segment performance was later performed by Perak dancers. The ceremony concludes with a series of cultural dances and firework performance.[20][21][22][23]

Participating states

An estimated total of 5670 athletes from 13 states, Federal Territory and Brunei competed at the 2016 Sukma Games. The number of athletes competed for each state is shown in parenthesis.[16]

Sports

The Sarawak Sukma Games Organising Committee had confirmed a total of 24 sports for the 2016 Sukma Games. The announcement took place after the sports were endorsed at the games countdown in Baitul Makmur, Petra Jaya.

Calendar
OCOpening ceremony ●Event competitions 1Gold medal events CCClosing ceremony
July 19
Tue		 20
Wed		 21
Thu		 22
Fri		 23
Sat		 24
Sun		 25
Mon		 26
Tue		 27
Wed		 28
Thu		 29
Fri		 30
Sat		 31
Sun		 Events
CeremoniesOCCC
Archery 8 8 2 2 2 2 24
Athletics 6 14 12 13 45
Badminton ● ● ● ● 2 ● ● ● 5 7
Bowling 2 2 1 ● 2 2 2 11
Boxing ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 9 9
Cycling 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 20
Diving 2 3 2 2 1 10
Football ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Golf ● ● 4 4
Gymnastics 1 4 2 2 10 19
Hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Karate 5 5 6 16
Lawn bowls ● ● ● ● 4 ● ● ● ● 4 8
Pencak silat ● ● 8 ● 18 26
Petanque ● 2 2 ● 4 ● 3 11
Sailing ● ● ● ● 12 12
Sepak takraw ● ● ● 2 ● ● ● 4 6
Shooting 4 6 6 6 4 26
Squash ● ● 4 ● ● 3 7
Swimming 8 8 7 8 7 38
Taekwondo 3 6 6 4 19
Tennis ● ● ● 2 ● ● ● 2 3 7
Volleyball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Weightlifting 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 32
Wushu 6 8 6 20
Daily medal events814181018374735424663440382
Cumulative total822405068105152187229275338382382
July 19
Tue		 20
Wed		 21
Thu		 22
Fri		 23
Sat		 24
Sun		 25
Mon		 26
Tue		 27
Wed		 28
Thu		 29
Fri		 30
Sat		 31
Sun		 Total events

Medal table

A total of 1238 medals comprising 385 gold medals, 380 silver medals and 473 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The host Sarawak's performance was their best ever yet and were placed second only to Selangor as overall champion.[24]

  *   Host nation (Sarawak)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Selangor597364196
2 Sarawak*574359159
3 Terengganu474244133
4 Federal Territory404442126
5 Pahang30252176
6 Penang26122967
7 Sabah25373799
8 Johor19253175
9 Negeri Sembilan19123061
10 Malacca18112857
11 Kedah14102347
12 Perak12263472
13 Kelantan10121335
14 Perlis971531
15 Brunei (BRU)0134
Totals (15 nations)3853804731238

Broadcasting

Radio Televisyen Malaysia was responsible for live streaming of several events, opening and closing ceremony of the games.

Malaysian Paralympiad
Logo

6 to 10 August 2016.[25]

Division Competition Venue Sports
KuchingPetra Jaya Sports Complex
Sarawak Stadium Athletics
Petra Jaya Unity Stadium Opening and closing ceremony
Pandalela Rinong Aquatics Stadium Swimming
Sarawak Lawn bowls Arena Lawn bowls
Others
Emart Megalanes Bowling Centre, Batu Kawa Bowling
Samarahan Universiti Teknologi MARA Powerlifting
Kota Samarahan Indoor Stadium Table tennis
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Archery, Badminton, Chess
Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Tun Abdul Razak Badminton
OCOpening ceremony ●Event competitions 1Gold medal events CCClosing ceremony
August 6
Sat		 7
Sun		 8
Mon		 9
Tue		 10
Wed		 Events
CeremoniesOCCC
Archery 4 4 3 11
Athletics 7 35 26 30 29 127
Badminton 4 ● 2 ● 5 11
Bowling 18 13 8 39
Chess ● 8 ● 8 16
Lawn bowls ● 3 ● ● 7 10
Powerlifting 2 4 6 12
Swimming 19 27 29 75
Table tennis 7 9 5 4 25
Daily medal events1169857982326
Cumulative total1180165244326
August 6
Sat		 7
Sun		 8
Mon		 9
Tue		 10
Wed		 Total
events

[26]

  *   Host nation (Sarawak)

2016 Malaysian Paralympiad medal table
RankStateGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sarawak*846373220
2 Johor35251575
3 Terengganu30241973
4 Sabah25232674
5 Penang23101952
6 Perlis226836
7 Federal Territory19313181
8 Kedah16191348
9 Selangor16151748
10 Kelantan15121441
11 Malacca14171344
12 Perak12171544
13 Negeri Sembilan813728
14 Pahang710724
15 Labuan0235
Totals (15 states)326287280893

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Preceded by
Kuala Lumpur–Perlis		 Sukma Games
Sarawak
XVIII Sukma Games (2016)		 Succeeded by
Perak
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