DARIUS VENERABLE flexed just enough muscles to edge South Korea’s Namhun Lee in the men’s Poomsae individual of taekwondo on Monday for the Philippines’s third gold medal in the World Combat Games at the King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 22-year-old Venerable scored 9.280 points—5.560 technical skills and 3.
DARIUS VENERABLE flexed just enough muscles to edge South Korea’s Namhun Lee in the men’s Poomsae individual of taekwondo on Monday for the Philippines’s third gold medal in the World Combat Games at the King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Juvenile Crisostomo and Justin Macario, meanwhile, contributed a bronze medal in mixed pair also of poomsae on Monday. Also bagging bronze medals for the 13-athlete Philippine delegation in the games that ended Monday were wushu’s Jones Inso and Thornton Sayan and grappling’s Maria Aisa Ratcliff and Fierre Afan.
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