Whether or not track and field athletes Joebert Delicano and Arnold Villarube deserve slots in the RP team for the Asian Games in November will be known when they vie for honors in the 4th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships starting Wednesday in Tehran, Iran.
RP head coach Joseph Sy said Delicano and Villarube, silver and bronze medal winners in the previous stagings of the Southeast Asian Games, will see action in the three-day event to prove that they merit a berth in the RP squad that will join the 16th quadrennial Games in Guangzhou, China.
A two-medal winner in the Laos SEA Games last year, Delicano, a Victorias City, Negros Occidental native, will compete in the triple jump event while Villarube, a decathlete and the 2007 SEA Thailand Games bronze winner, will vie in heptathlon since decathlon is not part of the event.
Source: mb.com.ph
Twenty-seven countries, including China, Japan, India, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Lebanon, and Malaysia will take part in the event being held in Iran for the second time.
“The hunt for berths in the Asian Games starts now and these kinds of tournaments will be the gauge,” Sy said, adding that more than 2,000 athletes are expected to see action.
The duo will be joined by coach Sean Guevarra.
Aside from the two, SEA Games gold medalists Eduardo Buenavista and Jho-Ann Banayag and reigning Asian long jump queen Marestella Torres will also compete in tourneys abroad.
Buenavista and Banayag will join the 14th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon on February 28, while Torres will return to the World Indoor Championships from March 12 to 14 in Doha, Qatar. The Philippine Sports Commission will fund the athletes’ participation.
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