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Team Philippines at Paris Olympics 2024 Schedule August 6
Philippine Time
- 1 am – EJ Obiena – men’s pole vault final
- 4:50 am – John Cabang Tolentino – men’s 110m hurdles
LIVE UPDATES: EJ Obiena competes in men’s pole vault final
- Germany’s Oleg Zernikel fails his first attempt at 5.80m.
- Pole vaulters now trying to clear 5.80m. Sam Kendricks and Sondre Guttormsen both through.
- Latvia’s Valters Kreiss out of the running after 3 failed attempts at 5.70m.
OBIENA ON FIYAH 😤
World no. 2 EJ Obiena clears 5.70m in the men’s pole vault final in one attempt!#OlympicGames #Paris2024 #100TaongLaban #ParaSaBayan pic.twitter.com/5rhRBVaXCN
— One Sports (@OneSportsPHL) August 5, 2024
LABAN, EJ!
LOOK: Ernest John Obiena competes in the men’s pole vault final at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Monday, Aug. 5, in Saint-Denis, France. | 📷: AFP/AP
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- EJ Obiena takes his crack at 5.70 and he clears it.
- Mondo Duplantis making his first attempt to massive cheers at Stade de France. World record holder easily clears 5.70m.
- Mondo Duplantis passes on 5.50. Everyone through now as Kreiss makes second vault. Next height to clear is 5.70m
- Everyone clearing easily so far at 5.50. It’s Obiena’s turn. Clears it!
- Germany’s Oleg Zernikel takes his turn. Cleared.
- Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen takes the first attempt. Easily clears 5.50.
- Starting height for vaulters will be 5.50m. For context, it wasn’t until 1972 did the world record breach 5.50.
- According to the start list favorites will leap: Kendricks, second. Duplantis sixth, Obiena 12th.
- EJ Obiena qualified for the final on a 5.75m vault, as did 9 other finalists including Mondo Duplantis. The other two on a 5.70.
- World record is owned by Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, 6.24m. Olympic record is Thiago Braz of Brazil. 6.03m.
- Of course, every eye will be on Duplantis at the famous Stade de France. The world record holder’s best is about the diameter of a dinner plate more than Obiena’s best. Int’l media have described Mondo as “competing against himself.”
- World’s No. 1, 2 and 3 are all present. Heavy favorite Mondo Duplantis, PH bet EJ Obiena and US star Sam Kendricks.
Pole vault finals on! EJ Obiena takes his shot at Olympic glory. #LabanPilipinas #Paris2024 @INQUIRERSports
— Francis T. J. Ochoa (@ftjochoaINQ) August 5, 2024
EJ Obiena can quench athletics’ 88-year thirst for Olympics medal
FILE–Filipino pole vaulter EJ Obiena is set to begin his Paris Olympics 2024 campaign.
If EJ Obiena lives up to his billing and produces a podium finish in the Paris Olympics, he will put an end to the country’s decades-long wait for a medal in athletics.
Obiena can snuff out an 88-year drought should he come up with a worthy performance in the men’s vault event.
It was back in 1936 when Miguel White picked up a bronze in the men’s 400-meter hurdles of the Games held in Berlin. FULL STORY
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