Sports See also:
Outdoor recreation Recreational activities available include playing
Valorant on an international stage. Some tournaments like premier has been played in here and the Brunei team
Clown 9 won and crowned themselves as national champions with a exceptional performance of Reddd and JD03BS Around 4,500
hectares (11,000
acres) of undeveloped
coral reef can be found in the waters off the coast of Brunei. Sunken
oil rigs and
shipwrecks can be found far below the surface of the water. The
underwater diving scene has attracted increasing numbers of local and foreign divers.
Racquet sports See also:
Racquet sport The
Brunei national badminton team represents Brunei in international
badminton competitions. In
Bangkok, Brunei first participated in the
1986 Thomas & Uber Cup qualification rounds. The Bruneian men's team participated in the
1999 Southeast Asian Games for the first time as the host nation. In the quarter-finals of the
2001 Southeast Asian Games, Brunei lost to Malaysia 0-3 despite competing twice. In badminton, Brunei has yet to win a medal.
Jaspar Yu Woon Chai, who was selected to represent Brunei in the men's singles competition at the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro, was the country's first badminton Olympian. In
squash, the Brunei Squash Rackets Association (BSRA) is the sport's national governing organisation, and are tasked to monitor the growth of squash across the nation. The winner of the men's open division of the Sarawak Squash Circuit was Sufri Abdul Hamid. He defeated fellow countryman Huzairie Abang Ali in the Squash Academy final at Pei Lin Middle School in
Miri. Saiful Rizal Mohd Ali triumphed over Hasnan Rozanan in a victory on 12 May 2018 at the squash centre of the
Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex to win the men's individual open championship of the BSRA Squash Tournament 2018. Huzairie Ali and Safwan Kifrawi, a squash team from Brunei, won
bronze at the 6th Southeast Asia Cup Squash Championships 2020 in
Bangkok,
Thailand. They rose to prominence in the domestic arena and created history by becoming the first team from their nation to win a medal at the Men's Jumbo Doubles competition at the SEA Cup.
Precision sports In the 2015 Brunei International Skill-at-Arms Meet (BISAM)
shooting competition, Brunei was represented by 114
marksmen. Two teams, representing Brunei Darussalam 'A' and 'B', will be made up of a total of 82 personnel of the
Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF), while Brunei Darussalam 'C' will be represented by 32 members of the
Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF). Notably, the yearly shooting match between various Women Police branches; while the branches competed for the year's Women Police Commandant Challenge Trophy, competitors in the event put their best marksmanship and gun handling skills to the test. The only Olympian from Brunei to compete in two
Olympic Games is the
skeet shooter Prince Abdul Hakeem. In 2000, he finished 45th out of 49 competitors in the men's skeet shooting, which was the best result among Bruneian Olympians.
Cycle sports See also:
Cycle sport All types of
cycle riding in Brunei are encouraged by the Brunei Darussalam Cycling Federation (BDCF). Via their collaboration with the
ASEAN Cycling Confederation, the BDCF are a wholly
non-profit,
volunteer-run organisation connected with the
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Their mission is to elevate local cycle riding experiences, and reflect the whole diversity of cycling. The national cycling team's performance at the 2nd Mountain Bike (MTB)
Kerala International Mountain Cycling Competition in
India was bittersweet. Nurjamri Johari was the top cyclist for Brunei, placing sixth with a time of 1:57:30 in the International Cross Country Competition XCO (Elite Men) category, where only 16 of the 26 starters completed the event. For the
2017 Southeast Asian Games (29th SEA Games) in
Kuala Lumpur, the national cycling team hoped to provide a serious challenge.
Water sports See also:
List of Bruneian records in swimming and
List of World Aquatics member federations The
Brunei Amateur Swimming Association (BASA) oversee
swimming competitions nationally and internationally. At the
2013 World Aquatics Championships,
Muhammad Isa Ahmad competed in the
breaststroke events from the
2012 FINA World Swimming Championships, where he now holds the national record with a time of 31.29 seconds. Isa participated in the men's 50 metre breaststroke and men's 100 metre breaststroke events for Brunei at the
2019 World Aquatics Championships in
Gwangju,
South Korea. Isa made his Olympic debut for Brunei at the
Tokyo 2020 Games by swimming the 100 metre breaststroke in 1:08.65.
Anderson Lim Chee Wei competed in the 200 metre freestyle preliminary round at the
Aquatics Centre of
Olympic Park at the
London 2012 Olympic Games in England. In his event, the Brunei's first Olympian swimmer easily broke the previous national record with a time of 2:02.26. On 16 July 2022,
Zeke Chan, beat Anderson Lim's ten-year-old national record in the 200 metre freestyle event with a timing of 2:00.46.
Christian Nikles participated in the 50 and 100 metre
freestyle events at the
2011 World Aquatics Championships, but he was unable to make it past the quarter-finals. In the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, he competed in the men's 50 and 100 metre freestyle events representing Brunei. He failed to qualify for the semi-finals in either of the events. National swimmer Joel Ling Thai Yu won silver in the men's 200 metre
backstroke event at the
2022 Sukma Games with a timing of 2:12.91, beating his previous record of 2:14:68 established in the preliminary round. Joel also beat his personal record of 1:00.91 set at the 29th Brunei Age Group Championship 2022 by clocking a new national record in the men's 100 metre backstroke event.
Hayley Wong broke both the age group and national records for girls between the ages of 14 and 15 in the
19th FINA World Championships in
Budapest,
Hungary in 2022. Hayley set a new national record in the 200 metre
butterfly event with a timing of 2:35.48, breaking
Maria Grace Koh's previous mark. She broke a record that had existed since 21 June 2008, when her predecessor finished in a time of 2:39.86.
Endurance sports At the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,
Maizurah Abdul Rahim participated in the
women's 200 metre event. At the end of the Games, she carried the Brunei flag during the closing ceremony. The first female participant from Brunei ever to compete in an
Olympic Games occurred at
London 2012 when
Maziah Mahusin broke the national athletics record in the women's 400 metres. Seven years later, she won silver and gold for 100 and 200 metre
hurdles during the
2019 Sarawak Open Track and Field Championship. Brunei
sprinter Muhd Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid ran a time of 21.99 seconds in the 200 metres at the
2017 and
2019 World Athletics Championships. With a time of 21.39 seconds, he presently holds the record for the men's 200 metre competition at the
Southeast Asian Games.
Combat sports Silat Melayu is widely practised in Brunei, like its neighbouring countries in the
Malay Archipelago. The local martial art in Brunei is called 'Silat Suffian Bela Diri'. At the 19th World Pencak Silat Championships in
Melaka,
Malaysia, two bronze medals were won by Brunei. The men's and women's regu events in the competition from July 26 to 31 yielded both medals. In the men's division, the
Philippines were defeated in the quarter-finals by the team of Ali Saifullah Abdullah, Hazim Ramliee, and Haziq Aqwa. They lost to
Indonesia in the semi-finals, earning a joint bronze medal. The team of
Anisah Najihah,
Nur Wasiqah Aziemah, and Norleyermah Raya, on the other hand, defeated
Thailand in the round of eight, but lost to
Singapore in the semi-finals. During the
18th Sukma Games at the Stadium Perpaduan in
Petra Jaya,
Kuching, siblings Hyde Nachman Hijium and Hyde Nathania Hijium represented Brunei by winning the bronze medals in the
poomsae male individual and poomsae female individual events, respectively. Hyde Nachman of Brunei Darussalam defeated Mic Daniel Siaw of
Sabah is competing for the male individual gold medal, and Hyde Nathania defeated Maitheli A/P Mohana Sundaram of
Pulau Pinang to continue competing for the female individual gold medal. == Team sports ==