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Filipino jiu jitsu fighter Marc Alexander Lim lastly wins a gold medal within the SEA Video games. –JUNE NAVARRO
PHNOM PENH—It took some time earlier than jiu-jitsu fighter Marc Alexander Lim reached the highest of his weight class within the Southeast Asian Video games.
After making an attempt his luck for the third Video games in a row, the 26-year-old from Davao Metropolis lastly achieved what he had been dreaming all alongside—a gold medal within the males’s nogi -69kg on Sunday on the thirty second SEA Video games right here.
“I’ve been by a variety of silvers and bronzes in my profession. This was merely the results of my sturdy dedication to win,’’ stated Lim, a silver medalist throughout the 2019 SEA Video games in Manila that was downgraded to a bronze final yr within the Hanoi version.
SILVER FOR MEGGIE
Lim toppled Vietnam’s Dang Dinh Tung within the finals, a win that made up for a sorry loss that Meggie Ochoa absorbed within the gold-medal finale in opposition to Cambodian native hero Jessa Khan within the feminine nogi -52kg.
Khan, who misplaced to Kaila Napolis within the Gi -52kg class on Thursday, redeemed herself in entrance of a wildly-cheering house crowd after submitting Ochoa by way of the knee bar early within the second spherical.
“It was my left knee, however I can handle,’’ stated Ochoa, the ladies’s 48kg champion final yr in Vietnam who was carried off the mat and settled for the silver medal.
Lim’s victory was the third gold medal for the nationwide jiujitsu squad in these Video games, together with the triumph of Annie Ramirez on Saturday within the girls’s nogi -57kg.
“We educated in the US for six weeks, honed our abilities with a number of the finest fighters there and received rewarded for it,’’ stated Lim.
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