Yulo leads golden surge; Pinoys jostle with Thailand for 2nd

HANOI – Reigning world champion Carlos Yulo scored two extra stirring triumphs Sunday, main an eight-gold medal haul because the Philippines jostled with Thailand for second general within the thirty first Vietnam Southeast Asian Video games right here.

Returning to the Quan Ngua Sports activities Palace the place he was topped the all-around champion final Friday, Yulo, 22, topped the ground train, the occasion the place he emerged as world champion in 2019, and adopted up his electrifying efficiency by scoring a formidable victory within the rings.

Gymnastics proved to be a gold mine as Fil-American Aleah Finnegan added the ladies’s vault gold to Staff Philippines’ harvest, scoring her second victory after main the ladies’s squad to the workforce title final Saturday, on high of a silver within the ladies’s all-around.

Additionally scoring essential gold medal wins had been Kim Mangrobang who added the ladies’s duathlon title to her victory within the triathlon final Saturday; wushu practitioners Agatha Wong and Arnel Mandal; Fil-Am William Morrison within the shot put; and the dancesport tandem of Stephanie Sabalo de Leon and Michael Angelo Marquez within the Latin dance.

The eight-gold haul, which matched the workforce’s output final Saturday, jacked up the nation’s whole to twenty, the identical output of Thailand thus far, however the Filipinos had extra silver medals.

Host Vietnam moved out of attain with a haul of 58-41-41, with the Philippines having harvested 20-22-39, Thailand 20-20-37, Indonesia 17-26-16, and Malaysia finishing the highest 5 with 16-11-29.

“I’m very joyful, I didn’t count on to win. However I’m happy with my efficiency,” mentioned Yulo, who scored 15.200 within the flooring train and 14.400 within the rings.

He returns to motion Monday, competing within the vault, the place he’s the present world champion; excessive bar and parallel bar.

Finnegan, a 19-year-old Missouri native who was a member of the US nationwide workforce that emerged victorious within the Pan American Video games in 2019, scored 13.133 within the vault, foiling the golden bid of hometown guess of Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu who settled for the silver with 13.033.

She vies within the flooring train and stability beam on Monday within the final day of inventive gymnastics motion, which has thus far propped up the Philippine marketing campaign with 5 gold and two silver medals.

Lower than 24 hours after successful her third straight SEA Video games triathlon crown, Mangrobang, 30, grew to become the primary Pinoy athlete right here to seize back-to-back gold medals, ruling the ladies’s duathlon on the Tuan Chau Peninsula in 2:13.12.

Wong, who misplaced her stranglehold in wushu’s taijiquan occasion final Saturday, bounced again with an enormous victory within the taijijian occasion, scoring 9.71 factors to frustrate two Vietnamese entries on the Cau Giay Gymnasium.

Later within the day, Arnel Mandal made it a double celebration for the Philippines, successful the wushu workforce’s second gold by beating Laksmana Pandu Pratama of Indonesia within the finals of the lads’s 56kg sanda 2-0 to hitch Wong, a 19-year-old magnificence whose smile can soften hearts, on the rostrum.

Morrison, 25, again to defend the title he gained in 2019 within the Philippines, heaved the heavy steel ball to 18.14 meters, means off his former successful throw of 18.38, however means forward of the Thai second placer who had a throw of 17.32m and the Malaysian bronze winner who had 17.20m.

Whereas the athletics contingent celebrated the nation’s second gold on the My Dinh Nationwide Stadium, which got here a day after world-class Ernest John Obiena topped the pole vault with a brand new SEA Video games mark of 5.46 meters, there was concern throughout as Philippine file holder John Albert Mantua, the nation’s second entry within the shot put, injured his proper leg after his fifth throw.

Mantua was introduced out of the sphere on a stretcher and was delivered to a hospital with a suspected extreme leg sprain.

The victory of De Leon and Marquez within the Latin dance led to 1 gold, three silver and two bronze manufacturing by the nation’s dancesport bets.

“I ready very nicely in two occasions, that is why I’m actually proud of the outcome. I targeted on my restoration and my conditioning coach, Annie Brown, did a lovely job,” mentioned Mangrobang, who educated extensively with the nationwide workforce in Portugal.

Along with his mom Marlene watching from the sidelines, Morrison set the tempo as early as his second heave of 17.84 meters. For good measure, he slowly improved his throws to 17.97 after which at 18.14 to utterly obliterate the sphere, which included eventual runner-up Jakkapat Noisri of Thailand (17.32) Thailand and third placer Malaysia’s Muhammad Ziyad Bin Zolkefli (17.20).

The athletics workforce additionally got here up with a silver, courtesy of Janry Ubas who leapt 7.73 meters within the males’s lengthy soar. (PR)