Quendy Fernandez has discovered one other event to claim her dominance within the pool. —PSC PHOTO
Swimmer Quendy Fernandez created enormous ripples within the varsity pool circuit, sufficient to etch her identify within the collegiate document books.
The UAAP Season 86 Most Helpful Participant and rookie of the 12 months punched in yet one more formidable efficiency, this time within the Philippine Sports activities Fee-Philippine Nationwide Video games (PSC-PNG).
“It feels good to win these in my first PNG. Hopefully, I can add extra,’’ stated the 18-year-old Fernandez whereas clutching two gold medals she received within the ladies’s 18-over 50-meter butterfly and 100-m backstroke.
Carrying the Puerto Princesa banner, the freshman from College of the Philippines Diliman timed 29.34 seconds within the 50-m fly, only a cut up second quicker than Mandaluyong Metropolis’s Jinzy Azze Dasion (29.93) earlier than a thrilled afternoon crowd that witnessed the motion at PhilSports swimming pool in Pasig Metropolis.
Fernandez made amends after a listless begin by dominating the 100-m again with a time of 1:07.66, practically 5 seconds faster than Shane Francine Lugay of Pasig Metropolis (1:11.66).
“I simply swam on the tempo I’m snug with. I centered extra on myself and how one can prime the race,’’ stated Fernandez, who devoted her victories to the late Palawan Swimming Membership coach Toyskie Dalisay, her mentor who handed away just lately.
Fernandez marked her swimming debut within the collegiate ranks final month with gold medals within the ladies’s 50-m, 100-m and 200-m backstroke occasions.
Becoming a member of Miguel Barreto of Bulacan because the Video games’ double-gold medalist, Fernandez is concentrating on podium finishes within the 50-m and 200-m backstroke on Wednesday and 4x50m freestyle relay on Thursday within the weeklong Video games backed by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Company, PBA, Milo and Pocari Sweat.
“I perceive that the extent of competitors right here is completely different since you get to compete towards one of the best swimmers all around the nation, so I need to present what I’m able to,’’ stated Fernandez.
Within the PSC-Batang Pinoy Video games at Rizal Memorial Swimming Pool, Arvin Naeem Taguinota II emerged as probably the most bemedaled athlete up to now after clinching three gold medals. Taguinota dominated the boys’ 12-under 50-m backstroke with a powerful clocking of 31.15 seconds and the 100-m backstroke in 1:05.63.
Greatest in age group
Honored as one of the best swimmer in a latest age-group competitors in Dubai, Taguinota likewise sparkled within the 200-m particular person medley (IM).
The 12-year-old flexed his expertise on the Emirates Worldwide Swimming Championships in Dubai the place he pocketed six gold medals within the 50-m, 100-m, 200-m backstroke, 200-m IM, 50-m and 100-m freestyle, besting greater than a thousand swimmers primarily from the Center East.
In the meantime, 2019 Southeast Asian Video games gold medalist and marathon champion Christine Hallasgo made a uncommon look within the PNG, strolling away with the victory within the ladies’s 10,000 m in 37 minutes and 6.96 seconds.
The opposite gold medalists in athletics had been Pasig’s Anna Marie Masangkay within the ladies’s open discus throw with a heave of 36.83 m, Coronary heart Sauso Duarte of Maasin Metropolis, Leyte, within the ladies’s U18 shot put (11.38), San Fernando, Pampanga’s Marvin Perez Ramos within the males’s U20 lengthy soar (55.68) and Manila’s John Allen Butiong within the males’s U20 javelin throw (55.68).
Additionally profitable golds had been Mandaluyong’s Randy Degolacion within the males’s U18 2,000-m steeplechase (6:14.46) and Rashied Burdeos within the ladies’s U20 discus throw (36.27).
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