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Team Philippines at Paris Olympics 2024 Schedule August 6

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Team Philippines at Paris Olympics 2024 Schedule August 6

  • 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

  • We’re now at 5.90m! Still 7 vaulters in play for the podium. EJ Obiena among them.
  • China’s Huang also exits the final at 5.85. He scores a PB tho, 5.80. 7 vaulters remaining.
  • Obiena clears 5.85 on his first try!
  • Still at 5.85, Karalis clears. Marschall clears. Sasma clears, EJ is up next.
  • Mondo Duplantis tries for 5.85, just his second vault in the final. Clears.
  • We’re now at 5.85 with two vaulters eliminated, 10 in the hunt.
  • Obiena’s wearing his warmers again. Probably confirms that he’ll pass on the 5.80m bar and attempt for 5.85m next.
  • Vloon of Netherlands is second to exit. Leaves at 5.80m.
  • Mondo Duplantis will pass on 5.80.
  • EJ Obiena nicks bar just after clearing. Faults at 5.80m.
  • China’s Bokai Huang and Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis also overcome the 5.80m clearance.
  • Germany’s Oleg Zernikel and Bo Kanda Lita Baehre fail their first attempts 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.
  • 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.

EJ Obiena can quench athletics’ 88-year thirst for Olympics medal

EJ Obiena Paris Olympics 2024 pole vault athletics Team Philippines

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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