Phillip Delarmino wins gold within the muay 57kg division within the thirtieth Southeast Asian Video games.
Philip Delarmino has been longing to tick off an merchandise in his bucket record: The 2022 World Video games.
The nation’s premier muay fighter labored courageously laborious on making that dream a actuality after hanging gold within the just-concluded Worldwide Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA) World Muaythai Championships in Phuket, Thailand.
Delarmino asserted himself in all three rounds within the finale, dominating Aleksandr Abramov of Russia to earn the nod from the judges, 30-27, and rule the boys’s elite 57 kilogram class.
The 31-year-old from Iloilo Metropolis lastly gained the title that eluded him for a very long time following a forgettable fifth-place output within the 2019 world championships in Bangkok, Thailand, and a bronze-medal end in 2018 in Cancun, Mexico.
Extra importantly, the victory booked him a ticket to the largest event of his sport.
“I’m excited to compete within the World Video games. I’m positive the hardest fighters on the planet can be there,’’ mentioned Delarmino in Filipino.
Abramov, additionally the silver medalist within the 2019 world championships, will be part of Delarmino within the World Video games on July 7 to 17 subsequent yr in Birmingham, Alabama.
Delarmino will meet the identical set of opponents he hurdled on the planet champs throughout the quadrennial World Video games.
Solely the finalists have been capable of e book spots within the World Video games, a world multisport occasion held each 4 years that contains sports activities and disciplines not contested within the Olympic Video games.
Cue grasp Carlo Biado grew to become the primary Filipino gold medalist within the World Video games when he captured the boys’s 9-ball singles occasion within the 2017 version held in Wroclaw, Poland.
Workforce Philippines has participated within the World Video games since 1981 and, aside from Biado’s gold, has introduced house 5 silver and 5 bronze medals apart.
“I hope to additionally carry a medal from the World Video games,’’ mentioned Delarmino, now thought-about because the fighter to beat in his division after topping the world stage and claiming the Asian featherweight crown of the World Muay Thai Council early this yr in Dubai.
On his technique to the finals, Delarmino, the present Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games champion in his weight class, stopped Laishram Bidyachandra Singh of India, defeated Sweden’s Javad Vahid Rezah within the quarterfinals and Kazakhstan’s Almaz Sarsembekov within the semifinals.
Workforce Bagsik’s Islay Erika Bomogao and Rudzma Abubakar likewise climbed onto the medal podium with a pair of bronzes of their respective age teams.
Bomogao, a silver medalist in 2019 SEA Video games held in Subic Bay, misplaced to Russia’s Bella Durandina within the semifinals of the under-23 feminine elite 45kg whereas Abubakar dropped her semifinal conflict towards Thailand’s Thanawan Thongduang within the under-23 feminine elite 48kg.
The Muaythai Affiliation of the Philippines additionally obtained the celebrated Federation of the Yr award from the IFMA for the group’s steady applications for his or her athletes regardless of the continued COVID-19 pandemic.
Ariel Lee Lampacan, the 2018 world champion and 2019 SEA Video games gold medalist, was proven the door unexpectedly early within the males’s 54kg after Sweden’s Giang Hoang pulled off a 30-27 triumph within the first spherical.
Ryan Jakiri, one other SEA Video games silver medalist, additionally bowed out of competition within the males’s 63.5kg after dropping his spherical 2 match towards Italy’s Lorenzo Rossetti. INQ
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