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Heavy
haul of 49 golds at stake Monday
By Gerry Ramos A total of 49 gold medals will be up for grabs Monday as action in the medal-rich events of taekwondo, wushu and fencing gets going in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games. Athens Olympic veterans Mary Antoinette Rivero, Donald David Geisler and Tshomlee Go lead the Filipino jins’ bid in the taekwondo event – to be held at the Cuneta Astrodome – where 16 gold medals are at stake. Both Geisler and Rivero will see action in the lightweight matches set at 7 p.m. while entered in the flyweight divisions are Jeffrey Figuerroa and Loraine Lorelie Catalan. Go will have his turn tomorrow in the bantamweight class, same with Esther Marie Singson in the women’s division, Manuel Rivero and Kristie Elaine Alora in the featherweight class, and Alexander Briones and Maria Creselda Roxas in welterweight. The other members of the RP taekwondo team eyeing to win half of the gold medals at stake in the event are John Paul Lizardo and Kathleen Eunice Alora (finweight), Dax Alberto Morfe and Veronica Domingo (middleweight) and Michael Alejandrino and Sally Solis (heavyweight) Over at the San Juan Elementary School gymnasium, actor and sportsman Richard Gomez banner the RP fencing team which guns for three of the 12 gold medals to be disputed today in the women’s individual sabre and men and women’s individual epee. With Gomez in the epee team are Wilfredo Vizcayno, Avelino Victorino and Armando Vernal in the men’s side while Harlene Orendain, Michelle Mancenido, Melly Joyce Angeles and Mary Catherine Kong make up the women’s side. The saber team on the other hand is composed of Jocelyn Naval, Joanna Franquely, Mar Wendylene Mendoza and Lenita Reyes in women’s and Edward Daliva, Edmond Reyes, Gian Carlo Nocom at Walbert Mendoza in men’s. Wendelyn Mendoza, Reyes, Mancenido, Emerson Segui, Rolando Canlas Jr., Ramil Endriano and Mark Denver Atienza are the members of the foil squad. Meanwhile, wushu, the sport where the Filipinos hope to dominate, will have five of the 22 golds up for grabs at the Emilio Aguinaldo College Vietnam SEA Games double gold medalists Willy Wang and Arvin Ting spearhead the wushu bets’ bids in the jianshu and Daoshu events. Other wushu events to be played are the nanquan and gunshu (both men and women’s). The wushu bets are hoping to surpass the six gold medals they won in the Vietnam SEA Games in 2003. Pedro Quina, Kenneth Lim, Ronel Andaliza, Andy Liu, Lester Pimentel,
Richard Ng, Rene Catalan, Rexel Nganhayna, Mark Eddiva, Eduard
Folayang, Janice Hung, Vicky Ting, Aida Yang, Jennifer Lagilag
and Rhea May Rifani are the other members of the team.
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