Skateboarder Mazel Alegado on the Asian Video games.–POC PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — Mazel Alegado, the youngest athlete within the nineteenth Asian Video games at 9 years outdated, reached the ladies’s park skateboarding last on Sunday at Qiantang Curler Sports activities Centre in Hangzhou, China.
The Filipino prodigy proved that age is only a quantity as she earned a shot at a medal after inserting seventh in Warmth 1 of the qualification spherical, the place eight of the 9 contributors superior to the ultimate spherical.
Alegado scored 44.86 factors in her first run and delivered her greatest efficiency in her second attempt, garnering 56.96 factors to enter the ultimate on Monday.
Japan’s Hinano Kusaki topscored with 78.06 factors, Mao Jiasi of China positioned second with 77.06 factors, whereas Japanese Mei Sugawara completed third with 75.33. Korea’s Cho Hyunju tallied 70.36, adopted by Chinese language Taipei’s Lin Yi-Fan (62.00) and China’s Li Yujuan (58.40).
Indonesia’s Nyimas Cinta certified because the eighth placer with 41.30 factors behind Alegado, as Thailand’s Orapan Tongkong didn’t make it to the ultimate spherical with 36.51 factors.
One other Filipino, Jericho Francisco Jr., is at the moment seeing motion within the males’s park skateboarding as of posting time, additionally eyeing to succeed in the ultimate spherical.
Margielyn Didal, the 2018 Asian Video games gold medalist, will begin her marketing campaign in girls’s road skateboarding on Tuesday.
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