Timor-Leste at the SEA Games

Timor-Leste started competing in the Southeast Asian Games in 2003 of the games in Hanoi, Vietnam. In that year, they became the youngest nation to compete, having gained independence in the year 2002; although not being an ASEAN member until 2025 and despite its geographical location closer to the Pacific archipelago than the Asian continent, making its debut at the games. Timor-Leste never hosted the Southeast Asian Games and best finished that the country attained is in 2011 Southeast Asian Games when the country won the first gold medal by Julianto Pereira and Dorceyana Borgesenth. In 2013 Southeast Asian Games they won 2 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 5 bronze medals marking their current best performance in the games.