{"id":238854,"date":"2019-12-01T03:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=238854"},"modified":"2019-12-01T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:33:29","slug":"triathlete-gives-ph-first-gold-in-30th-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/01\/triathlete-gives-ph-first-gold-in-30th-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Triathlete gives PH first gold in 30th SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238855\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/74981444_2574265779332180_5007677373143842816_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238855\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/74981444_2574265779332180_5007677373143842816_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/74981444_2574265779332180_5007677373143842816_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/74981444_2574265779332180_5007677373143842816_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/74981444_2574265779332180_5007677373143842816_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSobrang saya na parang di ako makapaniwala pa rin mindset ko na mapakalas naming talaga yung Indonesia kasi nandon siya sa amin all throughout (I\u2019m so happy that I almost I can\u2019t believe I won. My mindset is the athlete from Indonesia is strong. He was behind us all throughout),\u201d said Chicano, who clearly had the home-court advantage. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2019seagamesph\/photos\/a.1989153491176748\/2573677146057710\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2019seagamesph\/\">2019 SEA Games\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>SUBIC, Zambales<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Rambo Chicano delivered the first gold for the Philippines after he ruled the 30th Southeast Asian Games men&#8217;s triathlon on Sunday at Subic Bay Boardwalk here.<\/p>\n<p>After a second-place finish to Nikko Huelgas in the 2017 meet in Kuala Lumpur, the Olongapo City native clocked one hour, 53 minutes and 26 seconds to win his first-ever SEA Games gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSobrang saya na parang di ako makapaniwala pa rin mindset ko na mapakalas naming talaga yung Indonesia kasi nandon siya sa amin all throughout (I\u2019m so happy that I almost I can\u2019t believe I won. My mindset is the athlete from Indonesia is strong. He was behind us all throughout),\u201d said Chicano, who clearly had the home-court advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Kim Remolino bagged the silver medal with a time of 1:55:03 as the Philippines had a 1-2 finish once again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyempre sobrang saya kahit kakagaling lang ng juniors, pag-angat sa [elite category], nakapasok na sa SEA Games at nakakuha pa ng silver (Of course I\u2019m very happy because I was just elevated from junior category and then I won silver right on my first SEA Games),\u201d said SEA Games first-timer Remolino.<\/p>\n<p>Remolino said winning gold and silver for the Philippines was just a bonus for him and Chicano.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Ahlul Firman of Indonesia settled for the bronze medal with a time of 1:57:10.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUBIC, Zambales\u00a0&#8212; Rambo Chicano delivered the first gold for the Philippines after he ruled the 30th Southeast Asian Games men&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":238855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-sports","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238854","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238856,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238854\/revisions\/238856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}