Meggie Ochoa and Annie Ramirez plucked gold medals for the Philippines in jiu-jitsu. FILE PHOTOS
MANILA, Philippines — Meggie Ochoa and Annie Ramirez delivered two gold medals after ruling their respective divisions in girls’s jiu-jitsu on Saturday within the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games at Dan Phuong Gymnasium in Vietnam.
Ochoa, a three-time world champion and Asian Video games bronze winner, took down hometown guess Minh Duong Thi Thanh to finish a gold medal run within the girls’s 48 kg.
She beat Khoon Yin Bless Yeap of Malaysia and Kanjutha Phattaraboonsorn of Thailand on her option to a gold medal.
Ramirez, a 2019 SEA Video games gold medalist, efficiently prolonged her reign after outlasting Thai Orapa Senatham within the closing spherical of girls’s 62 kg.
Ramirez additionally had an ideal run after overcoming Singaporean Fiona Toh, Vietnamese Tu Nguyen Ngoc, and Malaysian Cassandra Poyong.
In the meantime, Carlo Angelo Pena settled for silver within the males’s 62kg after shedding to Thai Suwijak Kuntong within the closing.
It was Pena’s lone loss within the contest after beating hometown guess Van Thang Chan, Indonesian Sunardi Muliawan and Malaysian Chin Hong Thew.
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