With each member of the group able to successful a medal, a golden efficiency stays the chief goal of everybody within the Philippine squad campaigning within the Asian Karate Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Starring seasoned fighters Jamie Lim, Junna Tsukii, Ivan Lim and Alwin Batican, the nationwide karate group is scheduled to go away late Friday and arrive in Almaty on Sunday simply in time for the registration of contributors for the Dec. 18 to 22 continental meet.
“All of them are able to successful medals, however in fact the principle goal is to get the gold,’’ stated Karate Pilipinas president Ricky Lim.
Additionally becoming a member of the group are Remon Misu (ladies’s -55 kilogram), Sakura Alforte (ladies’s particular person kata) and John Enrico Vasquez (males’s particular person kata).
Lim, the reigning Southeast Asian Video games champion, will probably be entered within the ladies’s -61kg, the Filipino-Japanese Tsukii is about to compete within the ladies’s -50kg whereas Batican and Agustin will take part within the males’s -67kg and -75kg divisions, respectively
“They’re all wholesome after popping out of their coaching camp in Baguio. They’ve ready effectively for this,’’ stated Lim.
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