Host city Rangoon, Burma Events 13 sports Closing ceremony 16 December 1961 | Nations participating 7 Opening ceremony 11 December 1961 | |
Officially opened by Win Maung
President of Burma | ||
The 1961 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games officially known as the 2nd Southeast Asian Peninsular Games was a multi-sport event held in Rangoon, Burma from 11–16 December 1961 with 13 sports featured in the games. This was the first time all six founding members of the SEAP Games Federation competed in the biennial sports festival and the first time Myanmar, then known as Burma hosted the games.
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Burma is the second country to host the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, then known as the Southeast Asian Games.
The final medal tally was led by host Burma, followed by Thailand and Malaya.
Participating nations
¹ - Singapore was a self-governing British colony at that time.
Medal table
* Host nation (Burma)
References
1961 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA