TEAM LIST NOV 2-5 (OCT 15)

PHILIPPINE AMATEUR TRACK AND FIELD ASSOCIATION (PATAFA)

2012 THAILAND OPEN TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Bangkok, Thailand

31 October to 06 November 2012

Coaches:

1. Joseph Sy
2. Roselyn Hamero
3. Sean Guevara
4. Nixon Mas
5. Ernie Candelario

Athletes: (Latest Performance)

*Please note that these names listed above, are still due for approval for funding by the PSC.

Missing from the list is Olympian Marestella Torres and SEA Games Medalists Eduardo Buenavista and Eric Panique. Apart from that every other SEA Games medalists have been included for this meet.

A strong Mens 4×400 lineup of Bagsit, Bano, Alejan and Nierras who won the SEA Games Gold will be looking at challenging some of the best in Asia. While newcomer Cid who will be the alternate for the 4×400 will be focussing on going after the SEA Games qualification in the Decathlon.

A Womens 4×400 lineup of Pedrina, Malacad, Olarita and Rosales will be hoping to get the ball rolling for the Womens 4×400 squad to qualify for SEA Games although along way from the standard right now. A modest performance of 57.5 per runner would yield a 3m50 result for the young team.

Lasangue who did not qualify for the last sea games but has made the bronze medal standard with a 2.10m jump at the PNG will need to improve his best leap to 2.15m+ to stand a chance at winning a bronze medal at the next SEA Games.

Billones, Capispan, Loterte and Noval will be having there first outing as part of the National Team. 19 year-old Noval is going for the Junior Record of Ralph Soguilon which is 10.82s, he was just .02s off that at the NCAA.

Also attending but not funded by the PSC/PATAFA will be Maureen Schrivjers and Adel Valdecanas.

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Schedule

The Thailand Track and Field Open attracts many Asian countries to participate and has a high level of depth in most events. Supplied thanks to the Singapore Athletics Association is the schedule of events which will be held November 2-5. Usually this event is held at Thaamasat, Rangsit near the end of April however due to flooding the event has been postponed this year. Please watch this space a team listing for the Philippines will be supplied when it is made available by PATAFA and the PSC rumored this year to be around 25-30 athletes.

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Last year a team of thirteen athletes Henry Dagmil (long jump), Robin Tuliao 110 hurdles), Archand Bagsit (200) , Julius Sermona (5k) , Andrew Pirie (100/200) ,

Alfie Villadar (400)

Marestella Torres (long jump), Josie Malacad (400 hurdles), Keizel Pedrina (400 hurdles), Hanelyn Loquinto (200), Maureen Schrivjers (100/200), Zara Dela Virgo (100 Hurdles), Rosie Villarito (Javelin)

Accompanied by national coaches Joseph Sy and Roselyn Hamero represented the Philippines.

Torres took a gold and Malacad a surprise silver..

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Competition schedule Thailand track and field open

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27-man Pinoy track team off to Bangkok tourney

From the Manila Times, By Emil C. Noguera Oct 31

Olympic Champion Mo Farah with SEA Games 3ks Champion Rene Herrera at the London Olympic Games.

.The Philippines will be sending a strong 27-member national track and field team for the Thailand Open Track and Field Championships 2012 slated on November 2 to 5 at the Thammassat University Sports Complex in Bangkok.

Olympian and five-time Southeast Asian Games steeplechase champion Rene Herrera banners the men’s team that also include veteran campaigners Junrey Bano, Edgardo Alejan, Julius Nierras, Arniel Ferrera, Danilo Fresnido, Benigno Marayag, Manuel Lasangue, Julius Sermona, and Archand Christian Bagsit, Mervin Guarte, Eliezer Sunang, Jordan Paul Billones, Juliam Reem Fuentes, Jesson Ramil Cid, Raycris Capispisan, Francisco Valdecana and Ernest Guevarra.

Seeing action in the women’s division are Indonesia Southeast Asian Games bronze medalist Katherine Santos, Maureen Schrijvers, Loralie Sermona, Keizel Pedrina, Wenlie Maulas, Josie Malacad, Lorna Olarita, Michelle Loterte and former Palarong Pambansa standout Jenyrose Rosales.

“It’s a good opportunity to gauge their skills against some of the region’s finest tracksters in preparation for the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar,” said Philippine Track and Field Association President Go Teng Kok.

The Filipino tracksters won one gold, two silver and two bronze medals in the 74th Singapore Open Track & Field Championships 2012 in August with middle-distance runner Sermona accounting for the country’s lone gold medal.

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Some corrections to this news article

Francisco Valdecena shouldnt it be Adel

For some reason Ernest Obiena and Coach Sean Guevarra have been merged into one person.

Heard Schrijvers is not going.

And last but not least Wenlie Maulas has for the second time by the Manila Times been made into a GIRL! AGAIN!

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*Henry Dagmil had to pull out of the trip due to an ankle injury, and Mau Schrijvers who was self funding was also unable to attend.

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PART 3: Thailand Day 1 Report, Noval Breaks Junior Record

Continued from Part 2: Schedule and Writeups

*Videos and Results provided by Coach Roselyn Hamero

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Noval 10.74!

It was only a matter of time as well as the last chance for 19 year-old sprinter NCAA Champion Daniel Noval to erase the National Junior Record of his mentor Ralph Waldy Soguilon (10.82) . Soguilon later went on to become the National Record Holder in the 100m before an injury ended his career back in 2007. Noval easily won the 9th heat of the Boys 100m in a time of 10.79et. This mark was equal to the wind-aided mark of another Filipino Junior Rolando Lampa back in 1994.

Noval came back in the afternoon to erase this record again finishing third in the boys semi finals in 10.74et. The two other athletes who finished ahead of him from Thailand clocked 10.63et and 10.72et. Noval has qualified for the final which will be on Sunday. It is due to be a fast Junior Final as the winner at this event last year clocked 10.67et which has already been surpassed by the winner of Noval’s semi final.

Noval who was a palaro champion twice in this event, NCAA Champion twice and then Uni Games Champion recently, oddly enough had not competed at a Philippine National Championship meet and this was his first overseas meet.

This was Daniel’s last chance to break the junior record as he will be turning 20 next year, and its the only electronically timed meet he will be competing in this year. Daniel Noval has completed his mission for Thailand.

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Other Sprinters qualify

Noval was part of the largest contingent of Filipino athletes to participate at an national invitational overseas meet part of a successful 27 athlete contingent.

It was good to see the coaches/admin choosing to enter the junior athletes in the junior division rather than forcing them to run in open age which has obviously paid off now as a good judgement call and overall the selection of the team overall was a good lineup.

Looking at the Junior heats their was more of them and they were of higher quality than a Philippine National Championship meet.

Meanwhile in a straight semi final PNG Silver medalist Hanelyn Loquinto took 0.05 seconds off her personal best from the PNG to qualify for the womens 100m Final finishing third in her heat in 12.33s.

While in the Junior Division UAAP and JR National Champion Jennyrose Rosales won heat 7 in 12.55s. Rosales was luckyto qualify last going into the final of the womens 100m with a slightly improved time of 12.50 finishing 5th in her semi final which was won in 12.18s (2nd fastest qualifier).

Meanwhile in the Womens 400m. Josie Malacad in Heat 2 was the fastest of the three Filipina entries, the Uni Games and UAAP Champion clocked 57.03s to finish second in a fast heat won by a Sri Lankan in 55.72s. National Champion Keizel Pedrina finished second in heat 2 running a relaxed 57.67s for 2nd place behind another Sri Lankan and also qualified for the final. National Silver medalist and PRISAA Champion Lorna Olarita was unlucky to finish third in heat 1 in 58.89s missing out on the final by 2 spots or .08s. Malacad, Olarita and Pedrina will join with Jennyrose in the 4x400m Relays on Sunday. The 400m finals is tommorow.

In the Mens 400m all three athletes qualified to the Final SEA Games Silver Medalist Bagsit won heat 1 of 400m in 48.78, Alejan finished 3rd in heat 2 in 48.92, a Sri Lankan won his heat in 48.22 and was the fastest qualifier, 33 year old 2007 SEA Games Champion Nierras finished second in heat 2 in 49.41.

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Medals for Guarte, Santos, Amahit, Obiena and Marayag

SEA Games Silver medalist Mervin Guarte finished second in the Mens 1500m in 3:57.67 behind Van Lai Nguyen of Vietnam who is the SEA Games Bronze medalist in the 5k and 10k. Guarte was off his season best of 3:55.85 he ran at Almaty and his National Record of 3:47.65 he ran at the SEA Games. Mohd Jironni Riduan who finished last at the sea games final in the 800m got the bronze for Malaysia. The other Filipino entry UAAP Champion Wenlie Maulas finished seventh in 4:07.90.

SEA Games silver medalist Katherine Khay Santos finished with bronze in 5.64m behind Two Thais, however this was well below her season best of 6.19m at the National Games. Perhaps the danger for the Philippines will be Maria Londa of Indonesia who has leapt 6.55m this year, who is probably going to be the biggest challenge for 4 time sea games champion Marestella Torres.

SEA Games Bronze Medalist Amahit was well off her National Record with a 41.50 throw but managed to salvage the bronze medal.

It was a wise decision for National Junior Record Holder EJ Obiena who is on the comeback trail from a broken bone injury to compete in the Juniors where he improved 5cm on his Uni Games Vault with 4.25m to get silver in the Boys Pole Vault the winner leapt 4.72m.

Manuel Lasangue leapt 2.08m in the High Jump to take the silver, Reycris Capispan was fifth with 1.95m.

SEA Gmes Bronze medalist Ninoy Marayag equalled his season best leap of 7.37m in the Long Jump that he did at the PNG to win the Bronze.

In the 10k veteran Julius Sermona did not register a mark after not finishing the race. 2009 SEA Games Champion and National Record Holder Danilo Fresnido was back in sixth place with 63.50m in the Mens Javelin.

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Novals Reactions to his Junior Record

“I know I did not win the gold but it is such a great feeling to win the bronze medal out of the 108 particpants in the 100m run alone. Thailand is known to be kings in sprint and to be on that podium with them, representing the country, is a great
feeling,” said Noval, who now suits up for University of St. Benilde.

Noval said that he credits his improvement to his Benilde coaches Joseph Sy, Julius Nierras and Arnold Villarobe, who had given him his toughest training in the past three months in preparation for the Thailand Open.

“What makes this sweeter is I never intended to make it to the Top 3. The focus of our training, really, was to break the RP record. And we did more than that,” said Noval.
Noval broke the 100m junior record twice in this tournament. He posted 10.79 in the heats and reduced this to 10.74.

Now with the junior record out of the way, Noval looks at the bigger prize.

“Representing the country felt really good. I want to keep doing that. And to play against strong competitors pushed me to my limits. I will be working harder, the next stop will be the Sea Games. It’s still a long way to go but I will work hard for that,” said Noval.

(quotes from Noval taken from Sunstar by Marian C. Baring)

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Day 2 Two Gold Medals for RP

Two gold medals were delivered by the 27 strong Philippine Team courtesy of Olympian Rene Herrera and Julian Reem Fuentes on the second day of the Thailand National Track and Field Open at Thaamasat University, Rangsit Province.

Herrera did enough to win the 3k Steeples in a time of 9:17.53. Albeit the time was a little slow, being more than 20 seconds off what he ran to win his fifth sea games title in 2011 and 14 seconds outside his personal best. Neither of the Two SEA Games medalists featured in his race, there is alot of work to do for the 33 year old veteran if he is to win his sixth consecutive SEA Games title next year.

While Fuentes the Palaro Long Jump record holder broke his personal best of 7.26m he had established at the Palarong Pambansa earlier this year to collect his second international medal. Fuentes added to the Bronze he collected at the ASEAN Schools to record 7.29m to take out the Junior Category in Thailand. The 17 year old Fuentes who now studies at CSB stayed in #4 on the Alltime list, and moved a bit closer towards the 7.55m Junior Record of Joebert Delicano set in 1999.

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Malacad edges closer to SEA Games standard

It was been a tiring last ten days for Josie Malacad who at the Uni Games had ran a total of 3.1 km worth of sprint races. Luckily the 400m had been reduced from three rounds to two and the 400m Hurdles a straight final and the 4x400m a straight final. Reducing her mileage for the National Games from 2.4km to 1.6km worth of sprinting. Undoubtedly the 20 year old is in the best form of her life right now.

After improving on her personal best again this year to 57.03 Malacad had shown she is a worthy main stay in the newly formed Womens 4×400 relay which certainly have a medal chance at SEA Games. She also edged closer towards an individual spot in the SEA Games again reducing her personal best to 1:01.90. The bronze standard now reduced to 59.64 last SEA Games. Newcomer Oanh of Vietnam who boasts an event PB of 57.25 won the Hurdles in a time of 1:00.20. Malacad delivered the silver medal in this event.

Another Silver was gained by veteran SEA Games silver medalist Narcisca Atienza who scored 5100 points in the Heptathlon, which included a 15.47 run in the hurdles.

Jenny Rosales won the seventh heat of the girls 200m in 25.87, before crashing in the semi-final and only managing 26.54 finishing fourth and failing to advance to the final.

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Day 3, Fantastic First Day of the Decathlon as Run For Change Athlete Cid Closes in on National Record

The best performed athlete of the 27 strong RP Team at the Thai Open in Rangsit is Jesson Ramil Cid. The 21 year old had what can only be deemed as the greatest first day performance in the History of the Decathlon in the Philippines. Cid and his coach Sean Guevarra came to Thailand simply with the goal of getting the 6600 points required to get the Bronze standard for the SEA Games. The talent from Ilocos Norte who was recruited by former FEU Coach Rosito Andaya back in 2010 and had set the junior record.

Jesson Cid is one of the priority athletes of Run for Change (R4C), a non-profit sports association who supports and manages athletes under its team. R4C is the two-time overall champion of the POC-PSC Philippine National Games. Their thrust is to support and develop aspiring athletes into becoming members of the National Team. Other athletes under R4C include Christopher Ulboc, Isidro del Prado, Jr, Wenlie Maulas and Raphael Poliquit, Jr.

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Chasing the National Record

Cid stunned everybody including himself when he broke every single one of his personal bests in all five events of the Decathlon on Day 1. Cid shattered his 100m PB running 10.88 to move to third on the Ranking Lists for 2012 (previous best 10.8 hand or 11.04et), he threw the Shotput 10.96m, he leapt 7.08m (prev best around 6.80), he high jumped 1.89m (3cm higher than his best from 2010), and to top it all off he clocked 48.05!!! seconds (which was faster than the 3 indiv RP Runners in the 400m). After Day one Cid is sitting on 3876 points.

Cid came to Thailand with the goal of bettering 6600 points for the SEA Games, but now the possibility of breaking the National Record of the Legendary Fidel ‘Toto’ Gallenero the 2001 SEA Games Champion. Fidel who set the National Record at the 2001 Philippines National Open with 6963. Scored the following in his events. Which gave him a first day score of around 3769 points.

100m, LJ, SP, HJ, 400m / 110H, DT, PV, JT, 1500m

Cid strongest event on the second day is the Hurdles where he has a personal best of 15.00et, a sub 15 run will see valuable points, he must also throw over 30m in discus, over 4m in pv, over 50m in javelin. And make up for this by running a sub 4m40 in order to stay in line for the National Record.

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Malacad Improves to #8 on the All Time List

It has been a brilliant competition for Josie Malacad she has ran a personal best in every race she has ran in. Malacad again improved her 400m PB to 56.45s finishing fourth in a class final. Rathna of Sri Lanka won in 55.12, ahead of her team mate Sandamali 55.66, and Vietnam‘s Oanh 55.75 who earlier won the 400 Hurdles, PNG Champion Keizel Pedrina finished back in sixth place.

The graceful striding Malacad has now taken the season lead in the 400m with 56.45, which will greatly help the womens 4×400 campaign to qualify for the SEA Games.

Josie also moved upto #8 on the all time ranking lists tucked in between Perla Balatucan-Lobos (56.23) and Lucila Alam (56.61).

The Mens 400m was a bit of an off day for Alejan, Bagsit, and Nierras. The trio made the final. However timed 48.73, 48.88 and 49.32 to finish fourth, sixth and seventh.

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Silver Medals for Veterans

Narcisca Atienza delivered a silver medal in the Hepathlon with 5100 points behind SEA Games Champion Wassana Winatho. Arniel Ferrera improved on his seasons best throwing 56.93m however this wasn’t enough as SEA Games Champion Tantipong Phetichya won with 61.24m. Eleazer Sunang was sixth in the shotput with a throw of 15.28m.

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It was a rather dismal effort by the Womens 4×100 who finished fourth in 47.84s behind three local Thai teams, with the SEA Games standard being 45.12 in this event. We should seriously question after two outings if this is an event we are likely to medal in at SEA Games? consider are national record of 45.29 was done with four runners who had an average time of around 11.7et and that Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam all have several consistent sub 12 runners available.

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Day 4: Cid cements himself into the SEA Games but misses out on National Record this time

Jesson Ramil Cid finished an agonizing two points off the National Record of 2001 SEA Games Champion Fidel Gallenero in the Decathlon (6963). Cid scored 6961 points

On the second day he got (110 Hurdles 15.19, Discus 31.76, Pole Vault 3.90, Javelin and 1500m awaiting data). The Hurdles and Pole Vault were below his personal bests. On the first day Cid had a clean sweep of PBs in all five events he participated in. Cids total was a massive improvement on his previous personal best which was 6287 at the National Games in Dumaguete. However Cids performance surpassed both the Bronze medal (6627) and Silver Medal standards (6830) of the last Two SEA Games bumping him from the training pool into the core national team itself.

Jesson Cid is one of the priority athletes of Run for Change (R4C), a non-profit sports association who supports and manages athletes under its team. R4C is the two-time overall champion of the POC-PSC Philippine National Games. Their thrust is to support and develop aspiring athletes into becoming members of the National Team. Other athletes under R4C include Christopher Ulboc, Isidro del Prado, Jr, Wenlie Maulas and Raphael Poliquit, Jr.

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Sprint Finals

The only record set during the meet for the RP Team was the Mens National Junior Record. Daniel Noval after lowering the 100m junior record to 10.79 in the heats, reduced it again to 10.74. Noval took a well earn’t Bronze medal in the Final behind to Thai Runners in 10.80 seconds.

Hanelyn Loquinto finished seventh in the womens 100m final in 12.38 seconds.

Jennyrose Rosales qualified for the women’s 100m final but did not start.

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Women’s 4x400m Relay Team closes in on SEA Games Marks

PSC Commissioner Jolly Gomez (centre) poses with the Mens 4x400m Relay and Womens 4x400m Relay Teams.

Rosales who holds the Palaro Record in the 400m, joined with National PRISAA Champion Lorna Olarita, National Champion Keizel Pedrina, and UAAP & Uni Games Champion Josie Malacad in the Womens 4x400m relay. The team clocked 3:48.63 which is the best time by a Philippine Womens 4x400m Team since 1993.

In an earlier article ’3 Filipinas Make Final in Vietnam‘ I clearly stated the potential of this relay team at the SEA Games. This was a good initial run considering we have two stronger Fil-Heritage athletes to inject into the team who will be participating at the National Games and be used to help beef up the lineup towards qualification subject to fitness.

The qualification for the SEA Games is 3:45.03, or 3.6 seconds away. I would need to look at the video first to analyze the splits. So i have decided to leave this section of the article for now and will write a more in depth review later.

In comparison the more experienced Mens 4x400m relay team of Nierras, Bano, Alejan and Bagsit wound up with silver in 3:13.70 showing a lot of work needs to be done between now and SEA Games. However we should be more secure in the 400m as we have a lot of depth in this event and Cid should definitely be brought into the main lineup to boost the team.

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Gold and Silver for Guarte and Maulas

SEA Games Champion Mervin Guarte secured the fourth gold medal of the Thai Open for the RP Team he clocked 1:52.90 which was well off the 1:50.65 he ran at the SEA Games. Closing in on him was newcomer Wenlie Maulas whose time of 1:53.08 was just .1s outside of his personal best. Paul Billones finished fifth in 1:53.99. Maulas and Billones have had very minimal training so it was impressive they were able to get close to there personal bests.

Finally Michelle Loterte who had an upset loss to Angelica Balatibat at Uni Games after tripping over after landing bounced back with a new personal best in the 100m Hurdles in a time of 15.11s which was good enough to earn the bronze medal in the Junior Womens 100m Hurdles.

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Complete Results and Report Analysis

Attached is the Complete Results of the Thailand National Open at Rangsit November 2-5. This competition is usually held at the end of April but due to floods was postponed first to August and then to December..

Coach Roselyn Hamero, has kindly provided the full results of Thailand for Junior and Open age categories. We did not include youth results as no Filipino entries were registered in these events. As the Athletics Association of Thailand entered all the Thai names in the results in Thai Script we will unfortunately not be able to translate these names into English.

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2012 THAILAND OPEN COMPLETE RESULTS (JUNIOR DIVISION)

2012 THAILAND OPEN COMPLETE RESULTS (OPEN CATEGORY))

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Pinoyathletics will also be writing an analysis and conclusion on the performances of all the athletes who attended this meet. Measuring performances to SEA Games standards and personal bests. Stay Tuned.

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Report/Analysis

Possibly the Largest Team ever sent to the Thai Open

The Philippines sent a large convoy of 27 athletes to the Thailand Open Championships. To my knowledge as long as i have been competing (12 years) this is the largest delegation sent to an invitational international meet. The SEA Games of course in the past has probably had larger delegations, last SEA Games only had 22. But an invitational meet is a different category. Most of the athletes were funded by the PSC overseen by Commissioner Jolly Gomez who also was part of the delegation during the meet, however a few self funded.

Head Coach Joseph Sy and national coaches Roselyn Hamero, Nixon Mas, Sean Guevarra and Ernie Candelario also accompanied the team.

Overall the team did quite well with Four Golds, several silvers and bronzes. Also a National Junior Record was set during this meet by Daniel Noval.

In writing this report i will class performances as Excellent, Good, and needs improvement.

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Excellent

Undoubtedly the best performer of this meet was Jesson Ramil Cid, he set personal bests in all five of his decathlon events on the first day. His time in the 400m of 48.05 was faster than the 3 individual 400m runners the Philippines had entered. Cid 6961 was only two points off the National Record of 2005 SEA Games Champion Fidel Gallenero. He also surpassed the silver medal standard for the SEA Games of 6830 winning one of four gold medals for the team. Its not out of the question that he could be within a chance of securing a gold at sea games, even though 7200+ won last SEA Games. 7100 Might be enough to secure the gold.

Daniel Noval although he did not win a gold medal, did something more special. He reset the National junior record twice in 10.79 and 10.74 in the heats and semis of the Junior 100m. Noval finished with a well deserved bronze in the final in 10.80.

The best female performer of the Philippine contingent was Josie Malacad who set three best performances in the 400 Hurdles she got a silver medal in 1:01.90, which is her third improvement on her time this year, although the sea games standard is tough at 59.87. Also best times were recorded in the heats of the 400m with 57.03 and again in the final finishing fourth in 56.45. This improvement in time helped the womens 4×400 secure a silver medal.

The Womens 4×400 team clocked 3:48.63 which was the fastest time by Filipinas since 1993. Malacad joined Pedrina, Olarita and Rosales with an average time of 57.5 each runner. The time was 3.6s off sea games qualification but with two other faster 400m females who could figure at the PNG and improvements from the existing members qualification and being able to challenge Thailand at the SEA Games for silver is fast becoming a reality.

The Other excellent performance came from Julian Reem Fuentes who won the Junior Long Jump easily with 7.31m. The 17 year old improved on his record breaking jump at the Palaro. This is Fuentes second international medal after he won a bronze at the ASEAN Schools.

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*Coming soon will be the ‘Good’ and ‘Needs Improvement’ analysis

Changes to Stats

Michelle Loterte aka. Michelle Palmares, Josie Malacad, Daniel Noval, and Arniel Ferrera all established season leads.

Also noted Maika De Oro set a season lead in the Women’s Discus at the Uni Games. *38.96m in juniors is the discus the same weight for senior and junior?

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Their was only one addition to the list of athletes who have surpassed the medal performance standard at the last SEA games. Cid with a silver medal decathlon performance and the second fastest time in the 400m which puts based on times Bagsit, Cid, Alejan and Nierras into the 4x400m lineup with the minimal time being that of Nierras now at 48.51 being the entry standard for the main spots in the relay team.

So far in 2012, 12 individuals and one relay team the Mens 4×4 have surpassed the SEA Games standards of 2011.

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Conclusion

Overall it was a good step in the right direction for the sport with around a 95% perfect selection process of athletes for this meet. Maybe the tip of the Iceberg as we have more talents who will add depth to this lineup. A deluge of 27 athletes at a meet served as a wake up call that the Philippines is determined and committed to being back amongst the medal count at SEA Games. We should continue trying to maximize are participation at these type of meets in order to develop our athletes for the SEA Games and also to allow new athletes to have a chance to prove themselves.

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