SEA Games 2023: Philippines delivers more medals in athletics


Southeast Asian Games - Athletics - Morodok Techo National Stadium, Phnom Penh, Cambodia - May 9, 2023 Philippines' Umajesty Wesley Lachica Williams celebrates after winning silver medal in men's 400m

Southeast Asian Video games – Athletics – Morodok Techo Nationwide Stadium, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Might 9, 2023 Philippines’ Umajesty Wesley Lachica Williams celebrates after successful silver medal in males’s 400m REUTERS/Jeremy Lee

MANILA, Philippines–The Philippine athletics staff scored a number of silver and bronze medals within the ongoing thirty second Southeast Asian Video games at Morodok Techo Stadium on Tuesday.

Umajesty Williams emerged victorious with a silver medal within the males’s 400m occasion whereas fellow Filipino Frederick Ramirez took bronze in the identical occasion.

Malaysia’s Umar Osman accomplished the rostrum as he took house the gold medal.

In decathlon, Janry Ubas took house the silver medal with 6,923 factors whereas Aries Toledo, the 2019 champion, didn’t return to his gold medal standing with a 3rd place end at 6,891 factors.

Ubas additionally nabbed a gold medal in males’s lengthy bounce, ending string of heartbreak finishes within the SEA Video games.

Thailand’s Suttisak Singkhon dominated the decathlon competitors with a complete of seven,486 factors from 10 occasions.

Joida Gagnao added to the nation’s medal tally after ending second within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase occasions with Vietnam’s Thi Oanh Nguyen taking house the gold.

Sonny Wagdos rounded up the nation’s medal haul in athletics on Tuesday with a second place end within the males’s 5000m class.

Wagdos settled for silver whereas Thailand’s Kieran Tuntivate took house gold. Robi Syianturi of Indonesia accomplished the rostrum end of the occasion for bronze.

Ubas and EJ Obiena, who expectedly dominated the pole vault occasion, account for the Philippines’ gold medals thus far in athletics.



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