Celine and Chee Wei emulate their coaches’ golden feats

And the winners are: Malaysia’s gold and silver medallists posing after the prize-giving ceremony. From left: Lim Chee Wei (kata), S. Senthil Kumaran (kumite) and Celine Lee Xin Yi (kata). Pressy Misty Philip won the silver in the kumite.

KARATE exponents Celine Lee Xin Yi and Lim Chee Wei have continued the kata legacy of their coaches Lim Lee Lee and Ku Jin Keat in the SEA Games.

Chee Wei and Celine emerged as the men and women’s individual kata champions by beating close rivals from Indonesia to deliver Malaysia’s first two karate golds at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) yesterday.