SEA Games 2023: Filipino bets hike athletics’ medal haul with silvers, bronze
FILE – Filipino heptathlete Sarah Dequinan in the course of the 2019 SEA Video games. INQUIRER/ MARIANNE BERMUDEZ
MANILA, Philippines—Sarah Dequinan notched a silver medal in athletics for the second straight 12 months within the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games at Morodok Techo Nationwide Stadium on Thursday.
Dequinan snagged silver within the ladies’s heptathlon occasion with 5,369 factors. She was, nevertheless, unable to report a brand new private greatest with final 12 months’s 5,381 factors staying as her career-high.
Her Vietnamese rival Linh Na Nguyen took the gold with 5,403 factors whereas Thailand’s Sunisa Khotseemueang accomplished the rostrum with 5,253 factors.
Robyn Brown additionally received the silver medal within the ladies’s 400m hurdles after ending the course in 56.51 seconds.
Vietnam bets Thi Huyen Nguyen and Thi Ngoc Nguyen bagged the gold and bronze medals, respectively.
Ronne Malipay along with his silver medal in males’s triple leap. –RONNE MALIPAY FACEBOOK
Filipino representatives Ronne Malipay and Harry Diones capped off the athletics occasions on Thursday with two extra medals.
Malipay completed in second place within the males’s triple leap class whereas Diones settled for a 3rd place end in the identical occasion.
Malaysia’s Andre Anura jumped over each Filipinos for the gold.
All of them added to the Philippines’ medal haul within the SEA Video games led by gold medals from EJ Obiena (pole vault), Janry Ubas (lengthy leap) and Eric Cray (400m hurdles).
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