19.09.17

ATHLETICS UPDATES: Janry Ubas 4th

SEA Games Bronze Medalist Janry Ubas finished a very close 4th in the Men’s Long Jump. Ubas leap of 7.40m was his first time to compete in Indoors competition. The 23 year old was 4cm from the Bronze, and 8cm! from the Gold. Ubas was outside the Pinoyathletics Indoor Record of Donovant Arriola (7.64m)

4th place an got pb tonight long jump men huhu loser na nga injured pa but thank you still kae God because guiding me this night after you gave me strength to connect with this compete to be my coach joebert delicano without fed I will focus on the game to donate all my best this night an specially to my legend coach even if it rains, you will always be there for my training every day.

Said Ubas who praised his two coaches.

Nguyen Tien Trong who was 5th at the 2017 SEA Games won the Gold in 7.48m which according to Wikipedia has broken Vu Van Huyen National Indoor record of 7.18m set in 2009.

 

18.09.17

ATHLETICS UPDATES: RESULTS TEAM PHILIPPINES

2016 Asian Indoor Bronze Medalist Eric Cray bull dozed Heat 3 with a time of 6.85. Albeit far from his 6.57 National Indoor Record. Cray bypassed the 60 Hurdles to focus on the 60m plain. He undoubtedly is conserving energy for the next 2 rounds. Heat 1 was won by Taftian of Iran the Asian Indoor Champion in a slow 6.99, while the fastest time came in Heat 2 with Akbar Mohammed of Saudi Arabia who hit 6.74 the fastest time, ahead of Chuangchai of Thailand 6.89. Crays time is the second fastest time in the heats after 3 of 6 heats were completed.

*Updates Coming

 

Meanwhile SEA Games Silver Medallist Mervin Guarte did not qualify for the Final of the 1500m. He also finished behind another SEA Athlete SEA Bronze Medallist Yothin Yoprajan. However the only consolation for Guarte was his time of 4.04.76 established a new Philippine Indoor Record as their are currently no Records in this event.

SEA Bronze Medalist Marestella Torres finished out of the medals in 5th place at the Asian Indoor meet. Her leap of 5.97m was only 7cm off getting the bronze. Olga Ryapkova won the Gold in 6.43m, Asian and SEA Games Champion Bui of Vietnam took Silver with 6.36m. Their were no other participants from South East Asia. The Philippine Indoor record is still held by Elma Muros 6.11m set in 1995.

SEA Games Silver Medalist Marco Vilog failed to advance to the 800 Semi-Finals with a time of 1.56.62. Vilog was well off the National Indoor Record of his coach John Lozada 1.54.10. Former SEA Games silver medalist Mervin Guarte who was lined up in this event did not participate.

Contrary to what was reported in Philippines mainstream newspapers Trenten Beram did not participate in these games. The SEA Games 200 and 400 Champion, did not run the 400 here and their was no 200 held.

Also Eric Cray did not join the 60m Hurdles. Instead lining up tomorrow in Heat 3 of 6 Heats of the 60m Dash. Cray has the quickest PB in his heat, so should have no problems winning the event. His PB is actually 6.57 which he has done on 2 occassions not 6.60 which the official games website mentions.

 

The Philippines Goal is to beat the Goal of 1 Gold and 2 Bronzes.

 

 

2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games
Pinoyathletics.info will cover the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games, which will take place in Ashbagat, Turkmenstein from September 17 to September 27. A lot of athletes from the Philippines will be looking to redeem the country after a rather poor SEA Games campaign.

The Games will feature 45 Olympic Council of Asia Nations. Among them power houses China, Japan, Korea, India,Kazkhstan and Saudi Arabia. All 11 South East Asian Nations are joining. For the first time 17 members of the Oceania countries will also join this includes Power House Australia.

Albeit the Philippines has set the modest goal of surpassing its 1 Gold 2 Bronze finish of 2013.

It is spearheaded by 2016 Olympic Silver Medalist Hidilyn Diaz from weight lifting who was offered flag bearer but declined.

The Events have all been modified for an indoor environment

Demonstration tournaments for various electronic sports are to be held at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Competiton. These are Computer Games the first time this has been done.

A total of 21 sports will be represented: five Olympic sports (cycling, equestrian, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling), five Olympic sports contested only in non-Olympic formats (basketball, athletics, football, swimming and tennis) and eleven non-Olympic sports (bowling, chess, cue sports, dancesport, ju-jitsu, kickboxing, kurash, muaythai, sambo, belt wrestling and traditional wrestling)

Athletics will be held September 18 - 20.

The Philippines will have 116 athletes participating including SEA Games 400m Hurdles Champion Eric Shauwn Cray in the 60m and 60m Hurdles events. Cray will be among 41 entries in the 60m Dash. Eric holds the National Record at 6.57 and took the Bronze Medal at the 2016 Asian Indoor Athletic Championships.

Among his opponents will be the Iranian Duo of Taftian and Ghasemi who took Gold and Silver the 2016 Asian Indoor Athletic Championships.

SEA Games Silver Medalist Marco Vilog and Mervin Guarte will the 800m with 27 entries. Furthermore Guarte will also contest the 1500m.

SEA Games bronze medalist Janry Ubas will participate in the Long Jump.

Ernest Obiena will not see action in the Men’s Pole Vault as he is still recovering from injuries sustained in training before the 2017 SEA Games.

While a Sad Day for #HarryHolics as Harry Diones will not be competing. They will be missing their dose of #VitaminD. As the SEA Games Silver medallist in the Triple Jump will also not participate.

Marestella Sunang is the only women’s entry for the Philippines team of 5.

 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Asian_Indoor_and_Martial_Arts_Games

PH sets modest goal in AIMAG

 

 

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