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Para javelin thrower Cendy Asusano beams with delight as she resets her private greatest to wrap up a commendable efficiency for Crew Philippines within the Paris Paralympics
MANILA, Philippines – Filipina para javelin thrower Cendy Asusano nonetheless felt like a winner regardless of falling wanting a medal within the Paris Paralympics.
Asusano reveled in setting a brand new private greatest as she notched the very best end out of the six Filipino bets within the Video games after inserting fourth within the girls’s javelin throw F54 on the Stade de France on Saturday, September 7.
Smashing her earlier private better of 14.63 meters set when she additionally landed fourth within the World Para Athletics Championships in Could, Asusano hit 15.05m on her first try.
Though her mark was not sufficient for a podium spot, the Pasig resident beamed with delight for her achievement.
“I really feel like I gained gold as a result of it was the primary time I surpassed 15 meters,” stated Asusano in Filipino.
Asusano missed out on the medal as Iran’s Elham Salehi bagged bronze by registering 16.24m, with Uzbekistan’s Nurkhon Kurbanova and Nigeria’s Flora Ugwunwa capturing gold and silver, respectively.
Kurbanova broke her personal world file with 21.12m to dethrone former Paralympic champion Ugwunwa, who tallied 19.26m.
“There are different possibilities. She’ll proceed to enhance,” stated head coach Bernard Ebuen of Asusano.
Along with her fourth-place end, Asusano earned the honour of being the Philippines’ flag bearer within the closing ceremony — a activity initially given to para swimmer Angel Otom.
Otom confirmed promise in her Paralympic debut as she reached the finals of her two occasions, inserting fifth within the girls’s 50m butterfly S5 and sixth within the girls’s 50m backstroke S5.
Saving the very best for final, Otom clocked a brand new private better of 45.78 seconds within the closing of the ladies’s 50m butterfly on Friday, September 6, as she vied for the bronze earlier than working out of gasoline.
Two extra Filipinos superior to the ultimate, with wheelchair racer Jerrold Mangliwan and para swimmer Ernie Gawilan staying aggressive whilst they each noticed motion within the Paralympics for the third consecutive version.
Gawilan positioned sixth within the males’s 400m freestyle S7, whereas Mangliwan wound up at eighth within the males’s 400m T52.
Para taekwondo jin Allain Ganapin, who missed the Tokyo Paralympics as a result of coronavirus, debuted within the Video games in fashion by beating Refugee Paralympic Crew’s Hadi Hassansada within the spherical of 32 of the boys’s -80kg K44.
However Ganapin finally crashed out of competition after bowing to Azerbaijan’s Abulfaz Aburzali within the spherical of 16.
The primary para archer to symbolize the Philippines within the Paralympics, Agustina Bantiloc suffered an early exit as she misplaced to world No. 3 Jane Karla Gogel of Brazil within the 1/16 elimination of the ladies’s particular person compound open.
Paris marked the second straight version the Philippines ended the Paralympics with out a medal as Mangliwan, Gawilan, and para swimmer Gary Bejino additionally went house empty-handed from Tokyo.
The Philippines final gained a medal in 2016 Rio de Janeiro courtesy of late para desk tennis participant Josephine Medina, who clinched bronze.
Earlier than Medina, the nation waited 16 years for a podium end since para powerlifter Adeline Dumapong nailed the Philippines’ first-ever Paralympic medal with a bronze in 2000 Sydney. – Rappler.com
