The Philippines aims to end a three-decade medal drought in athletics in the coming Hangzhou 19th Asian Games, according to national coaches Isidro Del Prado and Dario De Rosas. Both coaches said world No. 2 pole vaulter EJ Obiena is the country’s best bet to finally win the country’s first…
National coaches Dario De Rosas and Isidro Del Prado are hopeful for a gold medal performance by Ernest John “EJ” Obiena in Hangzhou.Asian Games, according to national coaches Isidro Del Prado and Dario De Rosas.
The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association is pinning its hopes on the broad shoulders of the 27-year-old Obiena, who clinched a silver medal showing in the world athletics championships in Budapest last month. Obiena has yet to medal in the Asian Games. He debuted with a seventh place finish as still a nobody in 2018 in Palembang but improved dramatically after that and is now behind world pole vault wonder Armand Duplantis.“We’re ready and we feel a medal is in the offing,” De Rosas—who believes his protégé, long jumper Janry Ubas, could clinch a medal—told the session presented by San Miguel Corp.
“Hopefully, if he leaps to that number, he could medal,” said De Rosas, who also coaches Sarah Dequinan and Ronnie Malipay .
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