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Without even trying, hurting Vanessa Sarno puts on another dominant performance

Without even trying, hurting Vanessa Sarno puts on another dominant performance

By May 16, 2023 Sports 0 Comments


Vanessa Sarno retains her SEA Games crown. —TEAM PHILIPPINES

Vanessa Sarno retains her SEA Video games crown. —REUTERS

Earlier than flying to the thirty second Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games in Cambodia, Vanessa Sarno had little concept how she would be capable of defend her title.

The 19-year-old weightlifter was going to do one thing she hadn’t achieved earlier than: Compete in two tournaments with solely per week to get better in between.

“I don’t know tips on how to strategy it, however I’ll simply exit and play,” she mentioned.

Sarno gained three silver medals within the Asian championships in South Korea earlier this month, flew residence to the Philippines and hopped on a aircraft to Cambodia the next day.

“I can’t actually say if I can break my SEA Video games document as a result of I’ll be coming from the Asian [championships]. However I’ll nonetheless do my greatest to be higher within the SEA Video games,” Sarno mentioned. “I wish to win the gold. I simply can’t say if I can higher my document. We’re going to do heavy [load] within the Asian [championships] after which it’s going to be troublesome to go heavy once more within the SEA Video games with only one week [to recuperate].”

So on Monday, as she took her flip within the highlight for the ladies’s 71-kilogram occasion right here in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, her SEA Video games document was removed from Sarno’s thoughts.

She broke certainly one of them anyway.

Sarno, final yr’s champion in Hanoi, Vietnam, erased her personal customary of 104 kg within the SEA Video games with a 105 effort within the snatch.

The rising star from Tagbilaran, Bohol, in a while tried simply as soon as within the clear and jerk, hoisting 120 kg that finally clinched for her the title.

She totaled 225, a far cry from silver medalist Thipwara Chontavin of Thailand (208) and third-placer Restu Anggi of Indonesia (206).

“I didn’t attempt to break my document within the clear and jerk due to my left knee. It acquired strained after the Asian championships,” Sarno mentioned, explaining why she not attacked her different SEA Video games’ information within the clear and jerk (135 kg) and complete carry (239 kg).

Even after participating in an Olympic qualifier, the SEA Games was always at the back of Vanessa Sarno’s mind. —REUTERS

Even after collaborating in an Olympic qualifier, the SEA Video games was at all times behind Vanessa Sarno’s thoughts. —REUTERS

“We might have gone for it,” mentioned coach Tony Agustin. “However Vanessa was coming off the Asian championship, an Olympic qualifier, and her efficiency there was already excessive. We didn’t wish to threat her [getting injured]. Our goal anyway was the gold medal.”

Sarno’s victory is the second for the Philippine weightlifting staff after Elreen Ando dominated the ladies’s 59 kg on Sunday.

Ando shattered all information within the girls’s 59-kg division to sweeten her victory.

The 24-year-old delight of Cebu Metropolis lifted 98 kg, eclipsing the 96-kg customary established by Vietnam’s Hoang Thi Duyen throughout the Hanoi Video games final yr. Ando did the identical within the clear and jerk with a 118-kg carry, once more surpassing Hoang’s 2021 customary within the occasion at 115.

Sarno has been tagged one of many heirs obvious of Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo, the weightlifting heroine who ended the nation’s gold medal drought within the Olympics, when she dominated the ladies’s 55-kg class in Tokyo in 2021. She has been dwelling as much as the label to this point and is pursuing a spot within the Paris Video games subsequent yr.

“I’ve so many goals in weightlifting,” she instructed the Inquirer earlier. “I’ve been by means of lots of hardships already and I don’t need these hardships to go to waste.”  That’s why her focus throughout her lengthy preparation was the Asian championship.

“It’s an Olympic qualifier,” she defined.

However behind her thoughts, the SEA Video games was at all times there.  “I ready actually laborious as a result of I wish to additionally win the gold [in the SEA Games],” she mentioned.



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