30th October, Jakarta: Two gold and one silver medallist, Jimmy Cheung of Hong Kong ended his fine run at the 30th Asian Intercity Bowling Championships by picking up his second silver medal in the Men's Masters event on Sunday.

Cheung, who won his second gold medal yesterday by topping the Men's All Events standings, advanced to the head-to-head best-of-three elimination rounds as top seed. The Hong Kong national bowler sailed through his opening round with victory over 16th-seed, Rodolfo Tan Jnr of Paranaque, 2-0 (225-137, 240-204).

He also breezed past Jakarta's Rudy Goenawan, 2-0 in the second round quarter-final and a third 2-0 victory over a second Jakarta finalist, Yeri Ramadona in the third round semi-final to reach the championship match.

Chueng's opponent in the final was Doubles and Team gold medallist, Shin Soon Chul of Daegu, who ousted Hong Kong's Mike Chan, 2-1 in Round 1 but had a tough 2-1 victory over Kevin Oliver Cu of Paranaqaue. The Korean almost rolled the first 300 of the competition when he took the first match, 299-270.

He narrowly lost the second match, 267-269 but rolled another big game of 266 to beat Cu's 213 in the second round quarter-final. Shin took out his Doubles partner, Park Min Su, 2-0 in the all-Korean third round semi-final to set up the finale with Chueng.

In the title match, Cheung had a small lead after the first four frames but Shin struck home to take the match, 244-226. Whilst both struggled to repeat the high-scoring first match, Cheung has a bad break with a split while the Korean struck twice to seal the tie, 203-189 and bagged his third gold medal.

Hong Kong's third finalist, James Lui was eliminated in his opening round after losing to Gordon Ho of Macau, 0-2. Shin's victory in the Masters gave Daegu its third gold to seal the Men's Seotopo Cup with 29 points in the medal standings from three gold, one silver, three bronze medals and a fourth-place finish. Hong Kong settled for second with 18 points from two gold and 2 silver medals.

The champion sailed through the opening round with a 2-0 victory over Yancheng's Li Qing but had to work hard as well over three matches in her next two rounds. Posadas beat Singapore's Iliya Syamin, 2-1 the the quarter-final and another Singaporean, Tay Hui Wen, 2-1 in the semi.

Wong edged Singles gold medallist, Amanda Lee of Singapore, 2-1 in the quarter-final and Yancheng's Peng Rui, 2-1 in the semi-final to advance to the title round against Posadas.

Paranaque one gold medal more than SIngapore but had to settle for second in the Women's medal tally with 22 points from three gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Singapore clinched the Women's Seotopo Cup by 23 points from two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Although Singapore's men did not win any gold, their one silver and one bronze was good enough to clinch Singapore the Seotopo Cup after emerging as overall champion with 28 points from a total of two gold, four silver and three bronze medals.

29th October, Jakarta: Singles gold medallist, Jimmy Cheung picked up his second gold medal for Hong Kong at the 30th Asian Intercity Bowling Championships by topping the Men's All Events standings making up for missing the podium in the Men's Team of Four event.

Cheung, who only had a 16-pin lead after 12 games bolwed in the Singles and Doubles, rolled 182, 246, 226, 192, 209 and 253 block of 1306 in the team event to win the gold with 4023. Doubles gold medallist, Shin Soon Chul of Daegu took the silver medal with 3978, 45 pins adrift.

Kim Ju Young of Daegu shot the highest six-games series of 1411 in the team event to clinch the bronze medal with 3932, nine pins ahead of compatriot, Park Min Su in fourth with 3923.

With team-mates, Tony Wong, Mike Chan and James Lui in the team event, Hong Kong had finished third after the first block of three games played in the morning with 2474. Daegu led the first block with 2590, 39 pins ahead of Singapore with 2551.

The Hong Kong quartet started the second block with 822 but slipped to fourth after being overtaken by host city, Jakarta as Daegu and Singapore pulled away on first and second. Despite another good game of 844 in the fifth, they were still trailing in fourth.

Daegu sealed the gold by a comfortable margin of 118 pins on 5224 total. Jakarta snatched the silver medal with 5206 with a stunning 925 in their last game while Singapore settled for the bronze medal with 5038, 144 pins ahead of Hong Kong.

Lui finished eighth with 3769 to make the cut for the Masters final joined by Mike Chan in 15th position with 3663.

Doubles bronze medallist, Rodolfo Tan Jr of Paranaque squeezed into the Masters final in 16th position with 3644 while Wong missed the cut in 20th position with 3617.

Posadas's 1400 series in the team event won her the All Events gold medal with a total of 3896 over 18 games. Yap, who was leading the standings before the team event, managed only 1214 in the Team event to settle for the silver medal with 3783.

Lee took home the bronze medal with 3742. Yancheng's Peng Rui rolled the second highest series in the team event with 1289, missed the podium by 53 pins to finish fourth. Li Qing qualified for the Masters event in 16th position with 3387.

With just one final event in the Masters, Singapore women are leading the medal tally with 21 points from two gold, three silver and one bronze medal. Paranaque is second with two gold, one silver and two bronze medals.

Daegu is leading the men's tally with two gold, one silver and two bronze medals on 18 points. Hong Kong trailed in second with two gold and a silver medal.

28th October, Jakarta: Singles gold medallist, Jimmy Cheung partnered James Lui to win the Men's Doubles silver medal on the second day of the 30th Asian Intercity Bowling Championships at Jaya Ancol Bowling Centre on Friday.

The battle for the gold in the men's division was a tight affair between Daegu and Hong Kong. Park Min Su and Singles bronze medallist, Shin Soon Chul took an early lead with 450 in their opening game to lead Macau's Gordon Ho and Lo Ka Hou by 19 pins.

Cheung and Lui posted a splendid 470 to add to their 399 opening game to take over the running, six pins ahead of the Daegu pair. Whilst Hong Kong suffered a lowly 381 in the third game, Daegu took the opportunity to regain the lead with 428.

The Hong Kong pair fought back with a better 461 in the fourth game to retake the lead only for Daegu to move back up into the lead with a sizzling 527 in the fifth game.

Meanwhile, Joy Yap and Tay Hui Wen bagged Singapore's second gold medal in the championship with victory in the Women's Doubles event. Yap and Tay had a great start rolling 429 in their opening game to lead Macau's Windy Soo and Vanessa Wong by 36 pins, with Yancheng's Peng Rui and Kong Min a further six pins away in third.

Yancheng then stunned the field with a scintillating 467 in the second game to move into the lead. Singapore trailed in second, 26 pins adrift with Paranaque's Anne Marie Kiac and Ma Lourdes Cruz Arles following closely in third.

The 20-year-old Yap shot 259 and the 22-year-old Tay added 259 for a sizzling 517 to regain the lead and built up a huge gap of 111 pins from Yancheng. Paranaque continued to stay close with a superb 446.

The first Singapore pair continued with consistent games of 441 and 416 to extend their lead to as high as 181 before easing off to a 369 in the sixth and final game to win Singapore's second gold medal with 2571.

27th October, Jakarta: Hong Kong's Jimmy Chueng captured the Men's Singles gold medal at the 30th Asian Intercity Bowling Championships while Singapore's Amanda Lee and Joy Yap finished one-two to take the gold and silver in the women's division.

Mike Chan of Hong Kong set the early pace with 255 in his openning game to lead Daegu's Ham Jeong Woo by two pins and Cheung followed in third with 248 as several other Hong Kong bowlers also registered big games.

Chueng added another superb game of 230 to take over the lead with his compatriot, Chan trailing by 19 pins. The 20-year-old Hong Kong national bowler kept a strong pace to reel in 225, 221, 224 and 246 to end with 1394 and secured the gold.

Chan, who trailed Chueng for another game, kept close but could not maintain the pace needed to win a medal and eventually finished fourth, missing the podium by nine pins.

In the women's division contested earlier in the day, Amanda Lee won Singapore's first gold medal with 1259 after taking over the lead in game 5 from pace-setter, Vanessa Wong of Macau. Lee's team-mate, Yap posted a big game of 258 to snatch the silver medal with 1249 giving Singapore a one-two finish.

Wong, who was third before her sixth and final game managed only 184 to drop out of the podium with 1202 while Lara Posadas of Philippines claimed the bronze medal with 1223.

Early leader, Zarina Halim of Shah Alam rounded out the top five with 1199. Host city, Jakarta's best finisher was Novie Phang, who took seventh position in a field of 36 women.

Meanwhile, Ken Sofiati won Jakarta'S first gold when she triumphed in the Senior Women's division with 1060. Nooraini Md Noor of Shah Alam prevented Jakarta a one-two finish by securing the silver medal with 1048.

>Rento Pancaningsh of Jakarta took the bronze medal with 1036 while Azizah Abdul Rahman of Shah Alam missed the podium by five pins to finish fourth and a third Indonesian, Handayani Tri Susilowati completed the top five.

New Territories' Ng Kai Fun won the Senior Men's Singles gold medal with 1144, 20 pins ahead of Jakarta's Husin Makmur and Adian Negara Nasution, who tied with 1124 to win a silver medal each. Pg Haji Yasfadillah missed the medal by 11 pins to finish fourth. No bronze medal was awarded.

The players will resume with the Doubles event tomorrow with the Men and Senior Men starting at 9.30 am local time and the Women and Senior Women in the afternoon at 2.00 pm.

Photos by Terence Yaw in Jakarta, Indonesia.