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HANGZHOU, China—Ought to luck and the judges’ admiration come to their help, poomsae aces Jocel Lyn Ninobla and King Patrick Perez would possibly effectively be the primary Filipinos on the medal stand of the nineteenth Asian Video games.
Each of them Southeast Asian Video games champions early this 12 months, Perez is No. 4 within the rankings of the lads’s particular person poomsae whereas Ninobla, a former world champion, may simply get previous the preliminary spherical when competitions start Sunday.
There’s a tall hurdle coming their means although after taekwondo organizers merged the 2 poomsae disciplines—acknowledged and freestyle—into one occasion.
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“We might be competing in each acknowledged and freestyle. It’s a giant problem since I’ve been extra into acknowledged since I began poomsae,” mentioned Ninobla, a three-time SEA Video games gold medalist in ladies’s acknowledged occasion.
“We skilled and went to a number of competitions abroad, so it’s going to be a plus for us within the Asian Video games. We’ll simply give our greatest,” added the 2013 world champion Ninobla, who additionally bagged a silver and bronze on the worldwide stage.
Ninobla and Perez type a part of the 12-man taekwondo workforce right here, all of them aiming for a minimum of a repeat act of 2006 in Doha, Qatar when the jins produced two silver and three bronze medals.
FILE–Philippines’ Kurt Bryan Barbosa (Purple) compete within the taekwondo males’s -58kg elimination spherical bout in the course of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Makuhari Messe Corridor in Tokyo on July 24, 2021. (Photograph by Javier SORIANO / AFP)
Two-time Asian Video games bronze medalist Kirstie Elaine Alora and Tokyo Olympian Kurt Bryan Barbosa are the most effective hopes within the kyorugi (sparring) workforce together with the veteran Samuel Morrison.
“They’re prepared. It’s laborious (to repeat 2006) however we are going to strive our greatest. That’s our problem,” mentioned Philippine Taekwondo Affiliation secretary common Rocky Samson.
Philippine taekwondo introduced house three bronze medals—two from the lads’s and girls’s workforce poomsae—and one other from Pauline Lopez within the ladies’s -57kg within the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta.
Additionally vying for medals on the Lin’an Sports activities Tradition and Exhibition Centre are David Cea, Arven Alcantara, Veronica Garces, Child Jessica Canabal, Laila Delo and Jubilee Briones.
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