{"id":109674,"date":"2017-08-03T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109674"},"modified":"2017-08-03T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T09:26:12","slug":"ph-rowing-team-bags-3-silvers-2-bronzes-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/03\/ph-rowing-team-bags-3-silvers-2-bronzes-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"PH rowing team bags 3 silvers, 2 bronzes in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109675\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rowing-danang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109675\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rowing-danang-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Junior athlete Cris Nievarez, who is hoping to compete in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, and Delgaco delivered the bronze medals. (Photo by Edgardo Maerina, PNA)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rowing-danang-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rowing-danang.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Junior athlete Cris Nievarez, who is hoping to compete in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, and Delgaco delivered the bronze medals. (Photo by Edgardo Maerina, PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Aug. 3\u2014 \u00a0The Philippine rowing team won three silver and two bronze medals in the 2017 Southeast Asia Junior and Senior Rowing Championships held at the Dong Xanh-Dong Nghe Lake in Da Nang&#8217;s Hoa Vang district in Vietnam last July 26-30.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Edgardo Maerina made the announcement on Wednesday during an interview with the government-run Sports Radio 918.<\/p>\n<p>Maerina said the silvers came from Olympian Benjamin Tolentino Jr. in the men&#8217;s singles sculls event, SEA Games gold medalist Nestor Cordova and Roque Abala in the men&#8217;s doubles sculls event, and Melcah Jen Caballero and Joanie Delgaco in the women&#8217;s doubles sculls event.<\/p>\n<p>Junior athlete Cris Nievarez, who is hoping to compete in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, and Delgaco delivered the bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>Maerina, who saw action in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, noted that Vietnam and Indonesia won most of the gold medals at stake in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Philippine Rowing Association remains committed to strengthening its grassroots program to produce top-level athletes that will see action in future competitions, such as the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia and the 2019 SEA Games. (Jean T. Malanum\/PNA)<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Silver medalist Melcah Jen Caballero and Joanie Delgaco (women\u2019s double sculls) with coach Edgardo Maerina during the awarding ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Aug. 3\u2014 \u00a0The Philippine rowing team won three silver and two bronze medals in the 2017 Southeast Asia Junior &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,44],"tags":[20350,20349,20351,20352],"class_list":["post-109674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-sports","tag-dong-xanh-dong-nghe-lake-in-da-nangs-hoa-vang-district","tag-head-coach-edgardo-maerina","tag-olympian-benjamin-tolentino-jr","tag-olympic-games","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}