Albert Ian delos Santos through the Junior males’s 67kg class within the IWF Youth and Junior World Championships. –IWF PHOTO
MANILA – The Philippines collected 5 extra gold medals on Friday coming from Zamboanga Metropolis’s Jhodie Peralta and Albert Ian delos Santos to finish a profitable marketing campaign on the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth and Junior World Championships in Lima, Peru.
Peralta delivered three golds within the Youth girls’s 55kg class whereas Delos Santos, who positioned fourth in snatch, dominated the clear and jerk, and complete within the Junior males’s 67kg class.
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“I knew I might do it. I had a foul time with my again harm final yr, all the things was so darkish for a time. However I received numerous assist, I used to be excused by my college to arrange for these Championships and I put complete focus into it,” Delos Santos informed the IWF web site.
Zamboanga Metropolis’s Jay-R Colonia and Alexsandra Ann Diaz, and Cebu Metropolis’s Althea Bacaro produced 5 gold medals final Thursday.
Colonia received two gold medals (clear and jerk, and complete) and a silver (snatch) within the Youth males’s 49kg class in his first worldwide event.
Jay-R Colonia competing within the Youth males’s 49kg within the IWF Youth and Junior World Championships. –IWF PHOTO
Diaz topped the Youth girls’s 45kg snatch and complete, and was third within the clear and jerk.
Bacaro, 13, dominated the snatch within the Youth girls’s 40kg class. She received the silver medal in complete and the bronze within the clear and jerk.
Zamboangueña Angeline Colonia received the silver (snatch) and the bronze (complete) medals within the Junior girls’s 45kgs. She was fourth within the clear and jerk.
Prince Keil Delos Santos of Angono, Rizal ranked fourth in snatch and complete, and was sixth within the clear and jerk within the Junior males’s 55kg class.
Rosalinda Faustino, additionally from Zamboanga Metropolis, was disqualified within the Junior girls’s 49kg class for failing to fulfill the required physique weight.
The Youth division is for athletes aged 13 to 17, whereas the Junior division is for rivals aged 15 to twenty.
The athletes have been accompanied by coaches Antonio Agustin, Gregorio Colonia, and Diwa Delos Santos (Zamboanga Metropolis), and Christopher Bureros (Cebu Metropolis).
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“For the final 5 consecutive Olympics, Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas (SWP) at all times certified and garnered the primary Olympic gold for this nation. In three years time, a brand new group will attempt to seize a medal once more within the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Profitable these 10 golds on this world competitors, which incorporates powerhouse China, merely means we’re heading in the right direction once more. Thanks to those new younger heroes led by Ian de los Santos, and the help by the Philippine Sports activities Fee, MVP, SM Group, Ayala Land, ICTSI, the dad and mom, our Board, and coaches, and by God’s grace,” mentioned SWP president Monico Puentevella. (PNA)