Karate gold medalist Jaime Lim. –CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Jamie Lim felt quite a lot of skepticism the previous yr after a bungled try to hold her karate title within the Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games, doubts that she stored in her chest till a redeeming efficiency Sunday within the thirty second version on this Cambodian capital restored all religion in herself.
“It’s nonetheless sinking in. My final gold was in 2019. It appears ages in the past after which final yr was exhausting and I needed to settle for the defeat,” Lim, the daughter of PBA nice Samboy Lim, mentioned after defeating Cambodia’s Vann Chakriya, 3-1, for the ladies’s 61kilogram (kg) gold within the kumite occasion. “I used to be off for nearly a yr and labored my manner once more.’’
Lim needed to take a break from her masters class in London to arrange for this occasion.
“Final yr, I injured my hand and I additionally obtained a black eye from considered one of my fights. That loss was essentially the most painful,’’ mentioned Lim, referring to a first-round setback in opposition to Vietnamese Thi Ngoan Nguyen in Hanoi.
She destroyed Nguyen this time, scoring a 5-0 win, earlier than beating Malaysia’s Siti Nur Azwani Nor, 6-3, to rearrange the title match with the house guess that Lim needed to beat in a really hostile setting.
“I’m absent for 3 weeks [from classes], however the entire exhausting work paid off and it’s price it.’’
Group Philippines has amassed 13 golds other than 19 silvers and 21 bronzes (as of 8 p.m. Sunday) throughout eight sports activities to be fourth total, with Noelle Catindig and Princess Catindig contributing a mint with a victory within the ladies’s mushy tennis doubles finals over Thailand siblings Chatmanee Jankiaw and Napawee Jankiaw.
To this point, host Cambodia is making a killing with 27 gold, 21 silver and 23 bronze medals whereas operating second total is Indonesia (16-11-24) and Thailand at third (15-16-21).
Vietnam is respiration down the Filipinos’ necks at fifth with 12 golds, 18 silvers and 26 bronzes
One other Lim wins
Filipino jiu jitsu fighter Marc Alexander Lim lastly wins a gold medal within the SEA Video games. –JUNE NAVARRO
One other martial artist, Jiu-jitsu fighter Marc Alexander Lim, has the identical feeling of redemption lastly reaching the highest of his weight class.
The 26-year-old from Davao Metropolis was a silver medalist within the males’s 69kg again within the 2019 SEA Video games in Manila and obtained downgraded in Hanoi 2022 with a bronze, earlier than profitable all of it this time round.
“I’ve been by way of quite a lot of silvers and bronzes in my profession. This was merely the results of my sturdy willpower to win,’’ mentioned Lim after submitting Vietnam’s Dang Dinh Tung within the finals.
It’s a win that made up for a sorry loss that Meggie Ochoa absorbed within the gold-medal finale in opposition to Cambodian native hero Jessa Khan within the feminine nogi-52kg.
Meggie goes down
WATCH: Meggie Ochoa is carried off the mat after struggling a left knee harm in her gold-medal match in opposition to Cambodia’s Jessa Khan within the ladies’s 52kg jiujitsu. #SEAGames2023 | @junavINQ pic.twitter.com/9JDa72y1Hz
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Khan, who misplaced to Kaila Napolis within the Gi-52kg class on Thursday, redeemed herself in entrance of a wildly-cheering house crowd after submitting Ochoa by way of a knee bar early within the second spherical.
“It was my left knee, however I can handle,’’ mentioned Ochoa, the ladies’s 48kg champion final yr in Vietnam who was carried off the mat and settled for the silver medal.
Lim’s victory was the third gold medal for the nationwide jiujitsu squad in these Video games, together with the triumph of Annie Ramirez on Saturday within the ladies’s nogi-57kg.
“We skilled in america for six weeks, honed our abilities in opposition to among the finest fighters there and obtained rewarded for it,’’ mentioned Lim.
Philippines’ gold medalists within the SEA Video games 2023 Impediment Course Racing.
Whereas these fighters basked within the limelight of the frigid Chroy Changvar Conference Corridor, impediment racing on the venue’s carpark virtually grew to become a playground for Filipino racers.
Group Philippines accomplished a sweep of all 4 gold medals within the bodily demanding sport.
Mervin Guarte, Ahgie Radan, Elias Tabac and Jay-r De Castro capped the nation’s scintillating efficiency within the sport with a victory within the males’s relay on Sunday.
The Filipinos clocked 24.47 seconds within the 100m race whereas Malaysia checked in at 25.15 seconds for the silver.
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