[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":197},["ShallowReactive",2],{"country-en-myanmar":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"country_code":183,"description":184,"extension":185,"federation":186,"flag":188,"lastUpdated":189,"meta":190,"navigation":191,"path":192,"region":193,"seo":194,"stem":195,"__hash__":196},"countries\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Fmyanmar.md","Pétanque in Myanmar",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":175},"minimark",[9,13,49,54,64,67,71,74,133,152,156,168,172],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"pétanque-in-myanmar",[14,15,16,17,21,22,29,30,33,34,38,39,43,44,48],"p",{},"Pétanque in Myanmar is organized by the ",[18,19,20],"strong",{},"Myanmar Petanque Federation",", based in Yangon, and the country has built a genuine international pedigree in the sport over the past decade - anchored by home-soil hosting duties at the ",[23,24,28],"a",{"href":25,"rel":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002F2013_SEA_Games",[27],"nofollow","2013 SEA Games"," in Naypyidaw and, more recently, by precision shooter ",[18,31,32],{},"Khin Cherry Thet",", who has twice been crowned individual world champion. Unlike its French Indochina neighbors ",[23,35,37],{"href":36},"\u002Fcountries\u002Flaos","Laos",", ",[23,40,42],{"href":41},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fvietnam","Vietnam",", and ",[23,45,47],{"href":46},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fcambodia","Cambodia",", Myanmar (formerly Burma) was a British colonial territory rather than a French one, and exactly how or when petanque first reached the country is not well documented in the sources available for this profile.",[50,51,53],"h2",{"id":52},"history","History",[14,55,56,57,59,60,63],{},"Myanmar's clearest breakthrough into competitive petanque came when the country hosted the sport for the first time as part of the ",[18,58,28],{}," in the capital, Naypyidaw, held 12-21 December that year. Myanmar's own ",[18,61,62],{},"Than Zaw Oo"," made the home hosting count, winning the men's singles gold medal - beating Thailand's Wattanachai Sonthung 13-9 in the final after seeing off Cambodia's Ouk Samnang 13-8 in the semi-final. Cambodia's Ouk Samnang and Malaysia's Syed Akmal Fikri Syed Ali took the two bronze medals.",[14,65,66],{},"That home triumph helped establish petanque as a sport Myanmar could compete in at a genuinely elite regional level, a status the country has sustained across the SEA Games editions since, even as it has not hosted the Games again.",[50,68,70],{"id":69},"international-results","International Results",[14,72,73],{},"Myanmar's SEA Games petanque record since its home Games has been consistent, if modest in gold-medal terms:",[75,76,77,88,99,114,124],"ul",{},[78,79,80,83,84,87],"li",{},[18,81,82],{},"2013 SEA Games (Naypyidaw, host nation)",": ",[18,85,86],{},"Gold"," - Than Zaw Oo, men's singles.",[78,89,90,98],{},[18,91,92,93,97],{},"2019 SEA Games (",[23,94,96],{"href":95},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fphilippines","Philippines",")",": Myanmar took one bronze medal; the sources found for this profile did not confirm which event.",[78,100,101,83,107,109,110,113],{},[18,102,103,104,106],{},"2021 SEA Games (Hanoi, ",[23,105,42],{"href":41},", held May 2022 after a pandemic postponement)",[18,108,86],{}," - ",[18,111,112],{},"Ma Khin Cherry Thet",", women's individual precision shooting; plus a bronze in the mixed triples event, for three medals total and a 4th-place finish in the sport.",[78,115,116,83,121,123],{},[18,117,118,119,97],{},"2023 SEA Games (Phnom Penh, ",[23,120,47],{"href":46},[18,122,86],{}," - Khin Cherry Thet again topped the women's individual precision shooting podium, with Myanmar also taking a women's triples bronze.",[78,125,126,83,129,132],{},[18,127,128],{},"2025 SEA Games (Thailand, December 2025)",[18,130,131],{},"Silver"," - Myanmar's women's team, an eight-player squad of Ma Aye Aye Thant, Ma Thae Thae, Ma Su Twel Tar, Ma Mhone Nant Thar, Ma May Oo Khin, Ma Yin Min Thwe, Ma Hnin Eain Si, and Ma Khine Thazin Phyo, finished behind Thailand in the women's team precision shooting event; Myanmar collected seven medals in total across all sports at that edition.",[14,134,135,136,139,140,142,143,146,147,151],{},"Myanmar's biggest achievement in the sport, though, came away from the SEA Games. At the ",[18,137,138],{},"19th Women's Triple & Junior World Championship",", held 23-27 November 2023 at Bangkokthonburi University in Bangkok, Thailand, ",[18,141,32],{}," won the individual precision shooting ",[18,144,145],{},"world title"," - beating Tunisia's Mouna Béji 43-33 in the quarter-final, edging Thailand's Kantaros Choochuay 44-43 in a tight semi-final, and defeating Vietnam's Thạch Thị Ánh Lan 42-25 in the final. It was a repeat world title for Thet, who had finished third at the equivalent 2019 championship - making her, alongside Cambodia's ",[23,148,150],{"href":149},"\u002Fplayers\u002Fke-leng","Ke Leng",", one of the region's few multiple individual world champions in the sport.",[50,153,155],{"id":154},"governance","Governance",[14,157,158,159,162,163,167],{},"Public information about the Myanmar Petanque Federation's internal structure, founding date, and leadership is limited. The federation is registered with international petanque directories under its Yangon base, and Myanmar was not among the ten founding member federations of the ",[18,160,161],{},"Asian Pétanque and Sports Boules Confederation (APSBC)"," in 1997 (Cambodia, Israel, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Seychelles, ",[23,164,166],{"href":165},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fsingapore","Singapore",", Thailand, and Vietnam), suggesting the country's federation organized somewhat later than that first regional wave.",[50,169,171],{"id":170},"federation","Federation",[14,173,174],{},"We could not independently verify a public federation website, email, or phone number for the Myanmar Petanque Federation via WebSearch beyond its Facebook presence, and WebFetch is blocked sitewide in this environment, so no further direct contact details are published here.",{"title":176,"searchDepth":177,"depth":177,"links":178},"",2,[179,180,181,182],{"id":52,"depth":177,"text":53},{"id":69,"depth":177,"text":70},{"id":154,"depth":177,"text":155},{"id":170,"depth":177,"text":171},"MM","Myanmar hosted petanque's SEA Games debut on home soil in 2013, and shooter Khin Cherry Thet is a two-time individual world champion. 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