MANAMA – Weightlifter Jhody Peralta had to settle for a silver and a bronze medal, while Pag Leo Mhar Lobrido won a bronze medal as the Philippines continued to look for a last-gasp chance to snatch more gold medals in the 3-match Olympic Games.third Asian Youth Games in Exhibition World Bahrain here.
Ms. Peralta fell just short of winning two gold medals, but fell short in the end and won a silver in the snatch with a lift of 87 kilograms (kg) and a bronze in the clean and jerk, where she lifted 100 kg in the girls' 53 kg category.
Both medalists went to North Korean Pak Hae Yeon, who had 88 kg in the snatch and 107 kg in the clean and jerk.
“She (Ms Pak) beat me by just one kilogram,” said Ms Peralta, a triple gold winner at the World Championships in Lima, Peru last May.
However, for a few minutes, Ms. Peralta set a new meet record with her clean and jerk lifts.
But it was good when it came to her third and final lift, with Vietnam's Wai Lien lifting 106kg and Ms Pak lifting 107kg, preventing the Zamboanga City natives from going home with gold or silver.
As for Mr. Lobrido, he succumbed to the taller, taller Abdugani Yorkinjonov of Uzbekistan via unanimous decision in the boys' 46 kilogram bout and won the bronze medal.
“I was able to hit him even though I was smaller, but the judges saw it differently,” said the Philippines flag bearer.
Overall, the Philippines, which was ranked fifth a few days ago, improved to six gold, seven silver and eight bronze, good for ninth place.
But with two days left before the conclusion of this quadrennial competition, Filipinos can still capture a few medals, possibly mints, in wrestling, swimming and jiu-jitsu, a sport that has produced world champions in the past.
“We're still hoping we can win a few more gold medals,” said Philippine chef-de-mission Ramon Suzara.
Alas Pilipinas was aiming for a bronze medal in girls' volleyball as it faces Southeast Asian rival Thailand at the time of this writing at the ISA Sports City.
There were also heartbreaking incidents in cycling, table tennis and badminton where Filipinos fell like dominoes.
Cyclist CJ Caballeros 12 injuredth While countrymen Joelion Abdul Hamid and Carl Lawrence Espino did not finish in the boys' road race at the NBH Loop. , joey villar
