2017 SEA GAMES : TEAM PHILIPPINES GETS ITS FIRST SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS

Team Philippines got its first 2 medals 3 days before the official opening of the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The country's first medal is a silver - won by the Chinlone (Linking) men's team in Sepak Takraw after they qualified in the finals after the morning qualifiers but succumb to the Malaysians in the finals. This is a good start to the sepak takraw team's campaign since they are targeting to win 6 medals in this games - 1 gold, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes. In 2015, they only won 2 medals - 1 silver and 1 bronze.

Gallant stand by PHI sepak takraw team! Silver medalists #SEAGames2017 in men's chin lone pic.twitter.com/tAgNFZOkTc

— Marc Anthony Reyes (@marcreyesINQ) August 16, 2017

The second medal was a bronze medal from Archery, won by Paul Marton dela Cruz in Men's Singles Compound Archery event. He edged out a Malaysian archer in the battle for 3rd place where they both shot to a score of 144 but his best arrow was closer to the bulls eye so he was awarded the bronze medal. Unfortunately, the distaff side was not able to get a medal.

Paul Martin snatches bronze in men's individual compound pic.twitter.com/NDBeCZE2z8

— Marc Anthony Reyes (@marcreyesINQ) August 16, 2017

In other events, the men's water polo team succumb to the host Malaysia in a very close match, 7 - 8. In netball, Siklab Pilipinas suffered its 2nd straight loss after losing to Brunei, 32 - 69.

Here is the Team Philippines' schedule for tomorrow, August 17.

10:00am - Sepak Takraw - Chinlone Event 3
11:00am - Aquatic Water Polo - Men's - Philippines vs Singapore
2:30pm - Aquatic Synchronized - Solo Free Routine
4:00pm - Football - Women's - Philippines vs Vietnam
5:15pm - Netball - Women's - Philippines vs Singapore
8:00pm - Aquatic Synchronized - Solo Technical Routine
8:45pm - Football - Men's - Philippines vs Indonesia

Congratulations to the Sepak Takraw Team and Paul Marton dela Cruz! Mabuhay kayo! #LabanPilipinas

wushu delivers philippines' first 3 medals in the 2013 asian games

athletes from the martial arts of wushu started team pilipinas' medal harvest by garnering 2 silvers and 1 bronze.

the philippines' first medal in the games was a silver medal from daniel parantac in the men's taijiquan and taijijian event. he scored a total of 19.26 points behind the chinese athlete who scored 19.55 points. vietnam took the bronze.

parantac was only able to get 9.58 points in the taijijian event in the morning. it was good for an 8th place standing out of 14 athletes. he then came back in the afternoon with a strong taijiquan routine and was awarded 9.68 points. he placed second and his score was good enough for a silver finish over-all.

here is daniel parantac's performance in the 2014 asian games:

in the afternoon, francisco solis was not able to compete in the semi-finals match in men's sanda -56kg category due to injury. from some reports, it was an injury that he got from the training in china and worsened during the competition. he settled for a bronze medal finish.

just this afternoon, young wushu athlete jean claude saclag bowed down to his chinese oponent in the finals of men's sanda -60kg category. saclag, who was wishing for a gold medal on the eve of his 20th birthday, settles for silver.

hope this is the start of the philippines' harvest of medals in the 2014 asian games.

congratulations to the wushu athletes! laban pilipinas!

video is from: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvklyf6TGk