Malaysia Ends Fourth Day Of 2025 WUG Without Winning Any Medals

ESSEN (Germany), July 20 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian contingent ended the fourth day of the 2025 Rhine-Ruhr World University Games without winning any medals after Malaysians competing in taekwondo and swimming events crashed out in the initial rounds today.

Fu Cern Put Thai, Malaysia’s sole taekwondo exponent competing today lost 0-2 to Enes Kaplan of Turkiye in the first round of the men’s 58 kilogramme (kg) kyorugi event at Messe Essen here today, while Malaysian swimmers Lim Yin Chuen and Arvin Shaun Singh Chahal both failed to qualify for the semi-final of the men’s 100 metre (m) freestyle after Arvin finished fifth with a time of 50.05 seconds (s) and Yin Chuen only managing seventh place with at ime of 50.28 s in Heat 7 at Schwimm- und Sprunghalle im Europasportpark, Berlin.

Arwin’s time of 50.05 s is his new personal best, erasing his previous time of 50.13 s.

So far, the Malaysian team has only one silver medal, courtesy of Khiew Hoe Yean in the men’s 400 m freestyle, but both swimming and taekwondo still may offer up medals as competition will carry on till Wednesday.

The contingent will try to increase their medal haul and achieve their seven-medal target for the games as Malaysians begin competing in athletics, archery and artistic gymnastics tomorrow.

Sixty four Malaysian athletes are competing in six out of 19 sports at the 2025 WUG - gynmastics, badminton, archery, athletics, swimming and taekwondo. 

-- BERNAMA