{"id":239006,"date":"2019-12-02T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=239006"},"modified":"2019-12-02T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:44:58","slug":"phs-monica-torres-clinches-gold-in-sea-games-duathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/02\/phs-monica-torres-clinches-gold-in-sea-games-duathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"PH&#8217;s Monica Torres clinches gold in SEA Games&#8217; duathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2019seagamesph\/posts\/2623319791093445<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUBIC BAY, Zambales<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Filipina duathlon athlete Monica Torres delivered an early gold medal for the country on the second day of the 30th Southeast Asian Games here.<\/p>\n<p>Despite suffering from an upset stomach before the competition, Torres dominated the women&#8217;s finals at the Subic Bay Boardwalk, registering 2 hours, 8 minutes and 44 seconds to win in the 10-kilometer run, 40-kilometer bike, and 5-kilometer run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually,\u00a0<em>wala sa kondisyon ang katawan ko<\/em>\u00a0(my body was not in a good condition). I vomited\u00a0<em>bago ang<\/em>\u00a0(before the) race,\u201d said Torres, who topped the Asian elite categories of Powerman Asia Duathlon Championships for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>She defeated Thailand&#8217;s Pareeya Sonsem (2:11:18) and Vietnam&#8217;s Thi Phuong Nguyen (2:14:20) who settled for silver and bronze medals, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Torres is scheduled to compete again in the mixed relay category on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Joey delos Reyes settled for silver in the men&#8217;s duathlon event.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year old delos Reyes clocked one hour, 53 minutes and four seconds, behind Indonesian Jauhari Johan, who bagged the gold medal in the 10-kilometer run, 40-kilometer bike and 5-kilometer run race at 1:52:51.<\/p>\n<p>Delos Reyes and Johan were running side by side in the final stretch of the race.<\/p>\n<p>But in the last 600 meters away from the finish line, he slowed down and grabbed a bottle of water that gave an opportunity for the Indonesian duathlete to pull away and clinched the gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2019seagamesph\/posts\/2623319791093445 SUBIC BAY, Zambales\u00a0&#8212; Filipina duathlon athlete Monica Torres delivered an early gold medal for the country on the second &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":151326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-mahatma-datu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239006","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=239006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239007,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239006\/revisions\/239007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}