Gold medal match at the Asean University Games showed yesterday that the young National University of Laos team were lacking in both luck and experience, after they went down 0-2 to Thailand.

The Lao students were full of hope for a victory in front of over 20,000 supporters at the National Stadium, but it was not to be. Memories of the 2010 games were quickly revived, when the same two teams played for the same result.

Lao martial artists won another four gold medals in the wushu yesterday, to bring the host nation's total for six from the wushu competition.

The victorious Lao fighters yesterday triumphed in different categories of the Sanshou events. Sanshou combines full-contact kickboxing, including close range and rapid successive punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws and sweeps.

The winning fighters for Laos on Wednesday were Chanthasone Sengthaphone in the men’s 48 kg category, Kavy Phommakhanthong in the men’s 52 kg category, Khamla Soukaphone in the men’s 56 kg class, and Sommay Xayavong in the men’s 70 kg class.