TOKYO, Nov 22 — Malaysia’s long, anxious seven-day wait finally exploded into joy in Tokyo as the men’s doubles bowling events delivered a blistering breakthrough by clinching the nation’s first gold of the Deaflympics 2025 in a pulse-racing final yesterday.

Inside the intense, echoing lanes of the Higashiyamato Grand Bowl, Syabil Azam Syamsul Azam and Ho Choon Seong rose far above expectations producing a fearless and ice-cold performance to shock Ukraine 2-1 and rewrite Malaysia’s storyline at the Games.