The Philippine wushu team pledged to win in the 27th Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar and as expected the winning team snare two gold and two silver medals.
Jessie Aligaga and Denbert Arcita, are recently gold medalist in the 2012 Sanda World Cup in China as they reached the highest place in 48 kg and 52 kg division accordingly.
Jessie Aligaga defeated Indonesia’s Dasmantua Simbolon for the gold while Denbert Arcita defeated Thailand’s Thithak Paokrathok.
The Philippine team was declared as overall champion in 2005 but sixth in 2011, and currently running sixth among 11 competing countries.
Team Standing in 27th SEA Games 2013:(Gold, Bronze, Silver)
1. Myanmar 11-2-5
2. Indonesia 4-3-5
3. Vietnam 4-3-4
4. Malaysia 3-5-11
5. Thailand with 2-6-1
6. Philippines 2-4-1
7. Laos 1-2-5
8. Cambodia 0-2-5
9. Singapore 0-1-2
10 .Brunei 0-0-0
11.Timor-Leste 0-0-0
The Philippine basketball team known as “Sinag Pilipinas” in men’s category won over Singapore 88-75 while the women’s team “Perlas Pilipinas” defeated Malaysia,65-59.
“We won our first game but played very poorly by our standards. We’ve got to unlearn the PBA D-league type of D (defense) because it gets called as a foul every time,” said Josh Reyes, (–foul word(s) removed–)istant coach of the men’s team. We gave up too many free throws and offensive rebounds,” he added.
Singapore will be the host in 2015 SEA Games and is anticipated to be in the top five.