SEA Games 2023: John Ivan Cruz turns emotional after men’s floor gold
FILE – Southeast Asian Video games – Creative Gymnastics – Olympic Marquee, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Might 8, 2023 – The Philippines’ John Ivan Cruz in motion. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
PHNOM PENH—John Ivan Cruz burst into tears after claiming the gold medal within the males’s flooring train in inventive gymnastics on Tuesday on the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games.
“Life is difficult again within the Philippines, however all of the sacrifices and the hardships in coaching are all value it,” mentioned the 21-year-old Cruz from Malate, Manila, who secured his first particular person gold within the Video games after serving to the PH males’s workforce bag a silver on Monday.
Cruz took the ground forward of the remaining amongst seven finalists and registered 13.850 factors whereas Thailand’s Tikumporn Surintornta pocketed the silver with 13.800 factors. Winding up with the bronze is Indonesia’s Joseph Hatoguan (13.500).
Cruz, who has six different siblings and have become a full-time athlete after ending highschool, is assured of at the least P300,000 in money incentives from the federal government by way of the Philippine Sports activities Fee.
“It will tremendously assist my household. We have now nothing and that is our method out of poverty,” mentioned Cruz.
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