The Cambodian
national athlete Phok Daninhel won a bronze medal in the Pencaksilat category
at the 3rd Asian Youth Games in the evening of October 20, 2025 in Bahrain.
Phok Daninhel
advanced to the semi-finals, where he faced Indonesian Habbil Furgon Winata,
the owner of Pencaksilat Martial Art and he lost, but won a bronze medal in the
55kg wrestling event.
This is the
first medal for Cambodia in the Asian Youth Games after participating in two
previous games without winning a medal. The first time in 2019 in Singapore,
Cambodia sent three athletes to compete, but they did not achieve good results,
and the second time in 2023 in China, Cambodia sent two athletes to compete,
but they did not win any medals.
