3rd December, Las Vegas: Malaysia ended a 10-year drought to win the Women's 5-player Team gold medal at the 2017 World Bowling Championships with victory over topseed, Singapore while Team USA earned their fourth gold in the Men's division.

Malaysia's Syaidatul Afifah, Natsha Roslan, All Events silver medallist, Siti Safiyah and Doubles silver medallists, Sin Li Jane and Shalin Zulkifli had to work hard for their victory when they edged topseed, Singapore 2-1 in the final.

The champion had a clean game in the first Baker's format match with just three strikes-in-a-row for 214 while their Singaporean counterpart rolled four consecutive strikes to lead except encountering a costly split in the ninth frame to go down with 209.

In the second match, both contenders had a double strike and an open frame each. Singapore's New Hui Fen, Shayna Ng, Daphne Tan, Jazreel Tan lost the tie to Malaysia when their anchorwomen, Cherie Tan was unlucky to roll a split in the final frame to lose, 177-188.

Meanwhile, Team USA had to dig deep to reclaim the title they last won at the 2010 Munich World Men's Championships in Germany, seven years ago. Doubles Gold medallist, Chris Barnes led his team-mates, AJ Johnson, Tommy Jones, Marshall Kent and Chris Via with victory over third-seed, Chinese Taipei 2-0 (210-189, 200-180).

The Americans had to win a tie-breaker 47-46 to earn their place in the final after levelling on 218 a piece in the third and deciding game of the semi-finals against topseed, Colombia. Team USA lost the first match, 173-207 but bounced back with a narrow 237-230 win in the second match.

"It was just phenomenal watching the performance of the players how they dug all week and fought and scraped today to get into the tiebreaker and then go on to win," Team USA head coach Rod Ross said. "We came here as a team, and it really was a total team effort.