Philippine athletics is expected to end a three-decade medal drought in the coming Hangzhou Asian Games, with world’s no. 2
National coaches Isidro Del Prado and Dario De Rosas are one in saying that Obiena, also Asia’s no. 1 pole vaulter, is the country’s best bet to finally break the podium heartbreak as he’s favored to bag the gold in his pet event.
“Ang panalo natin si EJ sa pole vault,” said Del Prado in the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum Tuesday at the conference hall of the Rizal Memorial Stadium. Ubas, 29, won the gold medal in long jump during the last Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia, and copped the bronze in heptathlon in the Asian Indoor Athletics Championship in Kazakshtan early this year. He also competed in two European tournaments in Italy and Finland in which he also went home with the gold.
As for Del Prado, the former anchor of the famed ‘Bicol Express’ 4×400 men’s relay team in the 80s, it’s going to be a tough task for the quartet of Fil-Am Umajesty Williams, Frederick Ramirez, Joyme Squita, and Michael Carlo Del Prado to achieve a podium finish.
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