John Chicano (left) and Kim Mangrobang may in the end be celebrating double victories within the Vietnam Southeast Asian Video games subsequent yr. —INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS
John “Rambo’’ Chicano and Kim Mangrobang stay because the heavy favorites to maintain the nation’s supremacy going within the triathlon occasions of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games—and that’s not the one factor they is likely to be tasked to do come Could in Hanoi.
Triathlon chief Tom Carrasco confirmed that Chicano and Mangrobang may race in each triathlon, the place they’re the defending gold medalists, and duathlon within the coming SEA Video games in Vietnam.
“Each might be our greatest duathletes as Monica Torres has retired and Joey delos Reyes is nursing an damage,’’ Carrasco, president of the Triathlon Affiliation of the Philippines (Entice), mentioned on Tuesday.
Torres is the 2019 SEA Video games ladies’s duathlon gold medalist, whereas Delos Reyes acquired the silver within the males’s occasion of the run-bike-run race at the moment. The thirty first SEA Video games in Hanoi is ready on Could 12 to 23 subsequent yr.
Mangrobang is presently busy making ready for greater races forward in a coaching camp in Portugal. She and Chicano will probably be examined within the coming Nationwide Duathlon Trials (NDT) at Clark Parade Floor in Pampanga on Dec. 12.
“The NDT is a part of the choice course of for the Philippine workforce that we’ll ship to the Vietnam SEA Video games. It’s going to be the primary occasion that we’ll have for the reason that [COVID-19] pandemic started,’’ mentioned Carrasco.
The final time the Entice hosted a race was in the course of the Subic Nationwide Age Group Triathlon again in January 2019.
“Races held year-round have been a really pure solution to consider the efficiency of athletes. However within the absence of occasions, the NDT acquires better significance,’’ mentioned Carrasco, anticipating round 200 duathletes within the NDT.
Whereas Chicano and Mangrobang may aspire for a golden double in each triathlon and duathlon in the course of the SEA Video games, a bunch of worthy challengers may steal the highlight within the qualifying race from them.
The problem for Chicano may come from seasoned duathletes Doy Comendador, Efraim Iñigo, Jarwyn Banatao and SEA Video games males’s triathlon silver medalist Andrew Kim Remolino.
Out to upstage Mangrobang within the ladies’s race are a bunch of younger duathletes led by Lauren Plaza from Laguna, Could Trupa and Elaine Quismundo of Tarlac, Raven Alcoseba of Cebu and the Laguna squad of nationwide coach Ani de Leon.
In line with Carrasco, Filipino-Spanish triathlete Fernando Casares and the Cebu-based Remolino can even race within the duathlon in the course of the SEA Video games if wanted.
“All members of the Philippine nationwide coaching pool for triathlon and duathlon are required to take part within the NDT,’’ mentioned Carrasco.
Crew Philippines swept the gold and silver medals in males’s and girls’s triathlon up to now three editions of the SEA Video games since 2015 Singapore.
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