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Obiena cops first title of year in France


ist EJ Obiena of Team Philippines poses during the men's pole vault medal ceremony on day ten of the Oregon World Athletics Championships22 at Hayward Field on July 24, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon.

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Ernest John Obiena had his indoor season on the rise after winning gold at Perche En Or in Roubaix, France, on Sunday.

Although the Filipino pole vaulting idol has managed to beat his fiercest rivals, Obiena’s 5.82-meter effort is proof that he’s slowly getting back to the top in his career. his sport.

The world’s number 3 diver opened the indoor campaign by surging 5.77m at the 2023 International Springer Meeting last Thursday in Cottbus, Germany, to win a silver medal, in just 5, 82m by Sam Kendricks of the USA.

The pair of podium performances will be Obiena’s gauge for the upcoming Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on February 10-12 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when he clashes with essentially identical opponents. each other in the Cottbus and Roubaix tournaments.

Huang Bokai of China competed at the International Springer Meeting, but fell deep in the rankings after running only 5.50m.

At Perche En Or, China’s Yao Jie came in second behind Obiena with a 5.75 m effort while Bokai finished eighth with 5.40 m.

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The abundance of indoor season tournaments is allowing the world’s best skydivers such as Olympic gold medalist and world champion Mondo Duplantis, World silver medalist Tokyo Olympics Christopher Nilsen of the United States and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics gold medalist Thiago Braz selected from among a series of competitions.

Among the indoor meetings they can attend are the Orlen Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, on February 8, and the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Meeting in Lievin, France, on May 15. 2.

These tournaments have been scheduled under the 2023 World Indoor Athletics Gold Championship, including the Madrid World Indoor Tournament on February 22.

More than just winning the gold medal in the Asian indoor event, Obiena will be more obsessed with breaking his own 5.93m indoor Asian record that he set at the 2021 Golden Roof Challenge in Austria, where he cleared the 5.92m standard that existed for 23 years achieved by Igor of Kazakhstan in Potapovich.

While the 2024 Paris Olympics remain Obiena’s final destination, the 27-year-old athlete from Tondo, Manila, can return to the Summer Olympics in two ways, either through standard entry or through World Athletics rankings at the end of the Olympics. Limit criticism. request

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