Philippine’s Ernest John Obiena responds throughout the males’s post safe occasion throughout the ISTAF Berlin Internationales Stadionfest yearly track and also areas athletics fulfilling at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on September 4, 2022. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ/ AFP)
Pole safe celebrity Ernest John Obiena and also sprint ace Kristina Marie Knott will certainly spearhead a pack of Filipino track and also area professional athletes in the honest Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Obiena can quickly smash the existing document and also have a clear chance at the gold on a great day, yet the continental interior satisfy would primarily be a preview of just how the remainder of the nationwide athletics team would certainly bring themselves in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and also Asian Games this year.
SEA Games shot placed champ William Morrison III will certainly sign up with the 17-athlete actors throughout theFeb 10 to 12 event, where five-time local 400-meter obstacles gold champion Eric Cray and also Knott, Southeast Asia’s 200-m record-holder, have actually been gotten.
Piece of the activity
Former SEA Games heptathlon titleholder Sarah Dequinan, post safe silver champion Hokett delos Santos, three-way jumper Mark Harry Diones, lengthy jumper Janry Ubas and also girl post vaulter Natalie Uy will certainly likewise obtain an item of the activity.”These pick professional athletes will certainly be subjected to the concept that they come from the huge players’ organization,” stated Philippine Athletics Track and also Field Association assistant basic Edward Kho.
But throughout interior competitors, several of these tracksters will certainly race in a much shorter path or play minimal occasions than typical.
Knott is gone into in the ladies’s 60m, Dequinan will certainly contend in the pentathlon while Cray has 3 occasions– 60m, 400m and also the 4 × 400-m relay with Michael Carlo del Prado and also Edwin Giron Jr., that will certainly be targeting a medal in the males’s 800m.
Prized discover
Ubas, that made use of to see activity in the males’s decathlon, will certainly wear in the heptathlon.
“They will primarily encounter the exact same rivals below in the Asian Games,” stated Kho.
Joining them in the three-day track satisfy are Leonard Grospe (high dive), Mariano Masano (800m), Jelly Dianne Paragile (60-m obstacles), Alexie Mae Caimoso (pentathlon) and also Melissa Escoton (60m obstacles). A treasured discover in Filipino-Spanish hurdler John Tolentino Cabang will certainly be examined versus Asia’s ideal after arising with a much better clocking than Clinton Bautista, the present SEA Games males’s 110-m obstacles promote that has the nationwide document of 13.78 secs.
“John came by to our once a week relays lastNov 19 and also competed in the 110-m obstacles. He had the ability to run faster than Clinton Bautista’s individual ideal,” stated Kho.
After arresting 5 gold medals in the Vietnam SEA Games in 2014, Kho stated they will certainly be going for much more in the coming Cambodia version of the Games on May 5 to 17.
He stated the SEA Games lineup for athletics will certainly be wrapped up after their nationwide open on March 22 to 26, which will certainly act as the last of certifications. INQ
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