PH women’s boxing team trains in Thailand

THE nationwide ladies’s boxing crew, led by Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Nesthy Petecio, arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday, two weeks earlier than the beginning of the distinguished Thailand Open Worldwide Boxing Match.

The Filipinos can be coaching for per week with their Thai counterparts in a gymnasium at Muak Klek, a 2-3 hours drive from Bangkok, earlier than flying to Phuket, which is internet hosting the Thailand Open from April 1 to 10.

There may be additionally a coaching camp for match individuals scheduled on March 23 to 30.

“It is good that our boxers will be capable to have two weeks of coaching earlier than they compete within the Thailand Open,” stated Affiliation of Boxing Alliances within the Philippines ladies’s crew head coach Reynaldo Galido on Thursday earlier than the crew left for Muak Klek, a district of Saraburi province which is 154 kilometers away from Thailand’s capital metropolis.

Petecio, who received the featherweight title in 2019, will skip the match as she is getting ready for the Vietnam Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games and the World Championships. She is going to solely be part of her teammates within the coaching camp.

Additionally seeing motion Josie Gabuco (48kg), Aira Villegas and Mary IC Sinadjan (51kg), Irish Magno (54kg), Maricel de la Torre (57kg), Riza Pasuit (60kg) and Hergie Bacyadan (75kg).

Magno and Pasuit had been silver medalists. Pasuit was additionally a bronze medal winner on the 2019 SEA Video games.

The Thailand Open, thought-about as among the best boxing tournaments on the earth, will function a tuneup match for the boxers who’re competing within the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation Girls’s World Championships in Could, the SEA Video games additionally in Could, and the Asian Video games in September.

“The Thailand Open is our solely tuneup match earlier than the Vietnam SEA Video games, so we’re grateful for the chance to compete,” stated Galido, a gold medal winner on the 1994 Asian Video games and the flag-bearer of the Philippine delegation within the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Galido, who’s accompanied by assistant coach Mitchell Martinez, stated the Filipinos will be taught loads from the pre-tournament coaching camp.

“The camp can be attended by one of the best boxers not solely in Southeast Asia but in addition Asian nations like Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and different nations, that are excellent. Our boxers will certainly be taught loads as they put together for the SEA Video games and World Championships,” added Galido.