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2nd Southeast Asian Peninsular Games
Host city	Rangoon, Burma
Nations	7
Sport	13
Opening	11 December 1961
Closing	16 December 1961
Opened by	Win Maung; President of Burma
Ceremony venue	Bogyoke Aung San Stadium
	← Bangkok 1959 Kuala Lumpur 1965 →

The 1961 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, officially known as the 2nd Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Rangoon, Burma from 11 to 16 December 1961 with 13 sports featured in the games. This was the first time all six founding members of the SEAP Games Federation competed in the biennial sports festival and the first time Myanmar, then known as Burma hosted the games.^[1] Burma, later known as Myanmar is the second country to host the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, which later known as the Southeast Asian Games after Thailand. The games was opened and closed by Win Maung, the President of Burma at the Bogyoke Aung San Stadium. The final medal tally was led by host Burma, followed by Thailand and Malaya.

The games

Participating nations

¹ - Singapore was a self-governing British colony at that time.

Sports

Medal table

^[2]

Key

* Host nation (Burma)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Burma (BIR)*	35	26	43	104
2	Thailand (THA)	21	18	22	61
3	Malaya (MAL)	16	24	39	79
4	Vietnam (VIE)	9	5	8	22
5	Singapore (SIN)	4	13	11	28
6	Cambodia (CAM)	1	6	4	11
7	Laos (LAO)	0	0	8	8
Totals (7 entries)		86	92	135	313

References

^ Percy Seneviratne (1993) Golden Moments: the S.E.A Games 1959-1991 Dominie Press, Singapore ISBN 981-00-4597-2
^ "Medal tally". Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2019.