Taolu specialist Jones Inso saved the day for Team Philippines on Monday, producing another bronze medal in the 19th Asian Games.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old from La Trinidad, Benguet missed out on a medal in the Cambodia Southeast Asian Games in May but more than made up for it on a bigger stage.<\/p>\n
Inso scored 9.746 points in the barehand taijiquan form and tallied 9.470 in the swordplay discipline of taijijian for a total of 19.216 in wushu men\u2019s taijiquan-taijijian all-around event.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s Gao Haonan had 19.666 points to claim the gold while Hong Kong\u2019s Hui Tak Yan compiled 19.494 for the silver.<\/p>\n
\u201cPinag-igihan ko ang training ko. Binalikan ko mga (I gave my best. I recalled my) past performances ko and today naka-bronze tayo (we got a bronze),\u2019\u2019 Inso said.<\/p>\n
The third-place finish was the second for the country after taekwondo jin Patrick King Perez grabbed a bronze on Sunday in men\u2019s individual poomsae.<\/p>\n
Agatha Wong was the nation\u2019s female entry in the event but the 2018 Asiad bronze medalist could only manage fourth place overall on Sunday.<\/p>\n
At the Hangzhou gymnasium, the men\u2019s boxing team suffered its first casualty in Aaron Jude Bado, who lost to Thitisan Panmot of Thailand in a 51-kg match via referee stopped contest-injury in the second round.<\/p>\n
The Filipino suffered a huge cut on his left eyebrow that prompted the ring official to stop the fight with 16 seconds remaining in the round.<\/p>\n
Bado was the third Filipino boxer to exit after Aira Villegas and another Olympian in Irish Magno.<\/p>\n
Olympian Eumir Marcial and Mark Ashley Fajardo won their opening-round matches, also on Monday.<\/p>\n
Yet to see action are Olympic silver medalist Carlo Paalam, Marjon Pianar and John Marvin.<\/p>\n
Taekwondo likewise lost a top medal hopeful after Tokyo Games veteran Kurt Barbosa dropped his opening-round match to Uzbekistan\u2019s Omonjon Otajonov at the start of the kyorugi (free sparring) event.<\/p>\n
Barbosa started tentatively but rallied to tie at 14-all in the men\u2019s -58-kg division at Lin\u2019an Sports Culture and Exhibition Centre.<\/p>\n
But to Team PH\u2019s disappointment, the Uzbek was declared winner due to superiority.<\/p>\n
It also happened to Veronica Garces in the women\u2019s -49 class as she lost to the taller third-seeded Mobina Nematzadeh in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Joseph Chua will go up against Nurbek Gazes of Kazakhstan in the Round of 16 of the men\u2019s -63kg while Baby Jessica Canabal, a silver medalist in the recent Korean Open, tackles Japanese Katoh Yuzuho in the women\u2019s -53 kg class.<\/p>\n
In aquatics, Kayla Sanchez debuted for the Philippines in the women\u2019s 4x100m freestyle but the country will have to wait for its first Asiad swimming medal in 25 years.<\/p>\n
Sanchez, with Xiandi Chua, Tiea Salvino and Jasmine Alkhaldi, couldn\u2019t keep up with their faster rivals and placed fifth overall in the finals, clocking 3:44.31.<\/p>\n
However, the quartet still managed to post a new Philippine record, smashing the previous national mark of 3:47.05, with Sanchez also setting a new national record in the women\u2019s 100m freestyle \u2014 54.71 seconds during her split.<\/p>\n
Sanchez plucked a silver and bronze in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for the Canadian team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud. I would like to say this is the new era of my career and to start it a new national record is very exciting. I can\u2019t wait to improve more in the future,\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n
In 3×3 basketball, the Philippine men\u2019s team hacked out a 13-8 victory over Jordan.<\/p>\n
San Beda University\u2019s JB Sajonia and Bismarck Lina powered the team, softening the impact of the withdrawal of the women\u2019s team due to player shortage.<\/p>\n
Sajonia and Lina combined for 10 points, including four in a row that turned the game around at 5-2 after trailing early in the 10-minute match at Deqing Geographic Information Park Court.<\/p>\n
The team faces Chinese Taipei on Tuesday. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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