The Philippines’ Elreen Ann Ando competes within the girls’s 64kg group A weightlifting competitors in the course of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, in China’s japanese Zhejiang province on October 2, 2023. (Photograph by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)
HANGZHOU, China—Elreen Ann Ando redeemed herself from a disastrous marketing campaign within the continental championships by choosing up a bronze medal in girls’s weightlifting within the nineteenth Asian Video games.
The Tokyo Olympian from Cebu lifted a complete of 222 kilograms from a mixed output of 96 within the snatch and 126 within the clear and jerk on Monday night earlier than an appreciative crowd on the Xiaoshan Sports activities Centre Gymnasium right here.
Ando’s podium efficiency gave Philippine weightlifting its first medal within the event and rewarded the nation an eighth bronze in these Video games.
“I used to be actually upset once I misplaced within the Asian championships. This medal made up for that disappointment,” stated Ando, who captured a gold medal within the Cambodia Southeast Asian Video games early this yr.
With this carry, Elreen Ando is already assured of a bronze medal within the girls’s 64kg right here on the nineteenth Asian Video games pic.twitter.com/sIjdQK5HeG
— June Navarro (@junavINQ) October 2, 2023
She fumbled within the girls’s 59kg within the Asian championships held in Jinju, South Korea previous to her SEA Video games title.
North Korea’s Unsim Rim registered a brand new Asian Video games report within the snatch (111kgs), clear and jerk (140) and complete (251) on her option to the gold whereas Pei Xinyi of China settled for the silver with a complete of 234.
Ando is about to obtain a money windfall of P500,000 from the Philippine Sports activities Fee for her feat and much more from personal sponsors and the Philippine Olympic Committee.
“I need to reward myself with a brand new home with this win. It can additionally function a present to myself once I have a good time my birthday subsequent month,” stated the 24-year-old breadwinner, who misplaced his father to a coronary heart ailment shortly after her stint within the Tokyo Olympics.
Ando briefly switched to 64kg within the Asiad and can revert to 59kgs in an effort to proceed her Olympic qualification bid for the following yr’s Paris Olympics.
She is going to conflict head on with Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo in the identical weight class in a pair of world cup tournaments in Doha, Qatar in December and in Thailand in February.
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