BANGKOK — Ernest John Obiena capped an exceptional Philippine campaign at the 25th Asian Athletics Championships with a prophesied triumph in men’s pole vault on Sunday night. The world’s third-ranked vaulter... CDNDigital
Together with Robyn Lauren Brown’s victory in the women’s 400m hurdles, Team Philippines goes home on Monday with a pair of golds for the first time since the 1987 Asian champs in Singapore.
“Most of our 21 athletes made the finals in this all-Asia championships. In this sense, the result is satisfactory,” said“But more importantly, we can start gauging or measuring ourselves with the rest of Asia,” added Capistrano. Former Surigao del Norte governor Jose Sering, the Philippine track and field president back then, brought the tournament to the country as his crowning glory as the first president of the Asian Athletic Association .
Obiena won his second consecutive Asian title with renowned Ukranian coach Vitaly Petrov by his side and both are looking to solidify their claim in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China come September.
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