Competing on home soil in 2015, the national men's hockey team came within a whisker of clinching Singapore's first SEA Games gold since 1993 when they lost 4-3 on penalties to Malaysia after drawing 2-2 in regulation time in the final.
Five years on, Singapore has not ended its gold medal drought. A considerable gap remains between the two countries, with the Republic's men's and women's hockey teams ranked 36th and 38th in the world respectively as compared to the Malaysia men (11th) and women (20th).
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