PH rower Joanie Delgaco on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China. –JUNE NAVARRO/INQUIRER
HANGZHOU, China—Rower Joanie Delgaco stormed out of the gates and wound up second in her semifinal warmth on Friday to advance into the medal race of the ladies’s single sculls within the nineteenth Asian Video games on the Fuyang Water Sports activities Middle.
Delgaco, a 2019 Southeast Asian Video games gold medalist, reached the road in eight minutes and 18.30 seconds behind Japanese Shiho Yonekawa’s 8:06.32 clocking over the two,000-meter distance.
Becoming a member of them within the finals is Hong Kong’s Wing Wun Leung, who ended up third (8:20.35) after sustaining her fixed pace from begin to end that stored Vietnam’s Ho Thi Duy (8:23.56) at bay.
Tokyo Olympian Cris Nievarez didn’t earn the identical luck as Delgaco, ending fourth in his semifinal warmth within the males’s single sculls with a time of seven:25.65.
Nievarez checked in three seconds slower than third-placer Balraj Panwar of India (7:22.22) within the race topped by China’s Liang Zhang (7:12.77) and Kazakhstan’s Vladislav Yakovlev (7:19.27).
Solely the highest three finishers in every of the 2 semifinals heats in each genders progressed to the finals scheduled Monday.
Other than Wing and Yonekawa, Delgaco ought to put up in opposition to Uzbekistan’s Anna Prakaten, China’s Liu Ruiqi and Taipei’s Huang Yi Ting within the medal race. Prakaten topped the opposite semis warmth in 7:47.88 adopted by Liu (7:55.69) and Huang (8:14.36).
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