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Manila Bulletin devider Sports devider 31st SEAG formally opens Thursday; Padios delivers first gold for Team PH

31st SEAG formally opens Thursday; Padios delivers first gold for Team PH

Published May 11, 2022 12:26 pm

A rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) at My Dinh National Stadium. (Photo from VNA)

A combination of technology and traditional arts will be showcased in Thursday’s opening ceremony of the 31st Southeast Asian Games even as Mary Francine Padios delivered the country’s first gold medal in her pencak silat event Wednesday at the Bac Tu Liem Gymnasium in Vietnam.

According to the Games website, state-of-the-art technology such as mapping, augmented reality and extended reality, among others will be used for the opening festivities set at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi to welcome participants from 11 nations for the two-week affair.

Symbols of the 40 sports that will be played in this year’s edition will also be depicted in the style of Dong Ho folk painting art – a traditional craft of Vietnam.

After a parade and a hoisting ceremony of the national flag of Vietnam and other member countries, 11 outstanding Vietnamese athletes will carry the torch and light the Games cauldron to signal the opening of the meet.

It will be followed by a three-chapter show with themes “Friendly Vietnam”, “Strong Southeast Asia” and “Shining Southeast Asia.”

World-class pole vaulter EJ Obiena will carry the flag for the Philippines as members of the delegation are expected to join the parade of colors and athletes.

Meanwhile, Padios captured the country’s first gold medal after ruling the women’s seni (artistic) tunggal single event with a score of 9.960 points.

Indonesia’s Puspa Arum Sari settled for the silver with 9.945 points.

Jefferson Loon, James Mayagma and Rick Ortega also took the podium and bagged the bronze in the men’s seni regu trio.

At the Thuy Nguyen Hai Phong Aquatics Center, Tokyo Olympian Cris Nievarez also bannered the rowing team in clinching one silver and one bronze medal.

Joanie Delgaco, Amelyn Pagulayan, Josephine Qua and Kristine Paraon, for their parts, managed the bronze in the women’s quadruple sculls.

On Tuesday, the Philippine kurash team bagged one silver and two bronze medals at the Hoai Duc Gymnasium.

Helen Aclopen Talongen bowed to Vietnam’s Trang To Thi, 1-0, to settle for the silver medal in the women’s -48kg division, while Renzo Miguel Cazeñas and George Angelo Baclagan delivered bronze medals in their respective weight categories.

Cazeñas lost in the men's 81kg to Vietnam's Minh Quan Bui, 1-0 even as Baclagan succumbed to another Vietnamese in Duy Thanh Le, 1-0.

The Philippines is also assured of a silver medal in beach handball regardless of their result against Singapore being played at presstime, while four kickboxers are currently fighting in the gold-medal round.

Action in 13 sports fires off on Friday that include badminton, 3x3 basketball, fencing, golf, artistic gymnastics, petanque, sepak takraw, table tennis, tennis, indoor volleyball, wushu, bodybuilding and e-sports.

As of 4 p.m., host Vietnam has already collected six gold, five silver and six bronze medals, while Malaysia currently reaped six gold, one silver and five bronzes.

Indonesia was at third with 3-4-0 (gold-silver-bronze), followed by Singapore (1-3-3), Thailand and Philippines, which shared identical 1-2-4 hauls.

Brunei has one silver and one bronze, while clinching one bronze each were Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Timor Leste has yet to win a medal.

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