Hangzhou—After a whirlwind 2023 that catapulted Ernest John Obiena to world no. 2, a silver in the World Athletics Championships,
a seat in the Paris Olympics and a record-smashing Asian Games’ gold, the Filipino superstar pole vaulter has finally earned the right to rest.
The 27-year-old Obiena captured the pole vault gold with his record leap of 5.75 meters, which he further smashed at 5.9. He tried to break his own 6.0 meters by setting the bar to 6.02 as a gift to his coach Vitaly Petrov, but couldn’t pull it off in three tries. Parang nagiging mindset na niya to win every tournament he joins,” said athletics’ president Terry Capistrano.
And this is not just about athletics, it’s for our campaign here in general. I hope we win more medals in the other sports. Sana madagdagan pa ang gold natin or the silver or the bronze,” Capistrano added.
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