Three golds put RP drive on right gear 11/13/2011

TAEKWONDO, ATHLETICS DELIVER

Three golds put RP drive on right gear

11/13/2011
PALEMBANG, Indonesia — Women power charged the Philippine drive that generated three gold medals on Saturday while other Filipino athletes salvaged as many silvers and four bronze medals in the 26th Southeast Asian Games being held here, Jakarta and West Java.

Marestella Torres, pushing herself to the limit to extend a career which obtained the first feather in 2005, cleared 6.71m in the third of six attempts in long jump at the Jakabaring Sports City for the gold medal and erased a Games’ standard she herself posted in the 2009 edition of the SEAG in Laos.

Over in Jakarta, Rani Ann Ortega Francesca Camille Alarilla and Ma. Carla Janice Lagman obliterated the frustrations of the taekwondo world championships in Russia edging a newly crowned world titlist team from Vietnam by a mere half point in a much-talked about head-to-head in women’s poomsae..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/sports/20111113spo8.html