Sea Games 2009

Sea Games 2009, The 25th Southeast Asian Games is scheduled to be held in Vientiane, Laos, in 2009. This will be the first time the country has ever held a Southeast Asian Games. It will also commemorate the 50 years of the SEA Games in the said event.

The expected contenders for the top three spots in this SEAG edition are Indonesia (strongest traditional powerhouse country), Malaysia (2001 SEAG over-all champion and placed 2nd in the 2007 SEAG edition), Philippines (3rd strongest traditional powerhouse country and 2005 SEAG over-all champion), Thailand (2nd strongest traditional powerhouse country, 2007 SEAG over-all champion and recently the strongest powerhouse country replacing Indonesia placing 2nd in the 2001, 2003, and 2005 editions) and Vietnam (2003 SEAG over-all champion and recently, considered to be the newest powerhouse country in SEA Games placing 3rd in the last two SEAG editions).