Angel Gwen Derla wins the Philippines’ second gold within the SEA Video games 2023. –JUNE NAVARRO
PHNOM PENH—Angel Gwen Derla delivered a second gold medal for the Philippines on Thursday within the girls’s bamboo defend type of kun bokator on the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games.
The 19-year-old from Cabuyao, Laguna briefly shifted from pencak silat and tried her hand within the Cambodian indigenous sport, seizing the win with 8.5 factors to frustrate the host nation’s wager on the Chroy Changvar Corridor right here.
Cambodia’s Chanchhorvy Puth (8.47) settled for the silver after her almost two-minute routine and Deslya Anggraini of Indonesia positioned third (8.42) to succeed in the rostrum.
“I actually wished to symbolize our nation by competing right here within the SEA Video games. By means of sheer exhausting work, I used to be in a position to ship although I solely educated for 2 months,’’ stated Alcance.
Mark James Lacao joined Alcance within the medal tally with a silver within the males’s bamboo defend type whereas Alyssa Kylie Mahinay took the bronze within the feminine bokator spirit type.
Lacao assembled 7.75 factors after his routine, a far cry from the 8.25 tally of gold winner Titsovathanak Kim of Cambodia.
Rhichein Yosorez additionally claimed a silver with 7.33 factors within the girls’s naked hand type behind Cambodia’s Sanhchana Yuos (7.75).
Total, the Philippines has collected two golds, two silvers and three bronzes forward of Friday’s opening ceremony at Morodok Techo Stadium.
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