Agatha Wong, balancing med school and training, surprises self with fifth SEA Games gold

ICYMI: Medical school wasn’t much of a hindrance for Agatha Wong to make it five out of five gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games.

The Philippines’ Agatha Wong puts up the number five after winning her fifth Southeast Asian Games gold medal in wushu. June Navarro/INQUIRER

PHNOM PENH—Medical school wasn’t much of a hindrance for Agatha Wong to make it five out of five gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games. With low expectations, the 24-year-old wushu artist surprised herself with a performance to remember that merited a gold medal in the women’s taijiquan/taijijian on Friday at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games.“Training while studying medicine is really tough. I really didn’t expect to win,” said Wong, a dominant figure in the event since the 2017 SEA Games in Malaysia.

The freshman medicine student from the University of the East wound up third in the taijiquan with 9.580 points behind Malaysia’s Sydney Chin and Brunei’s Basma Lachkar on Wednesday.

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