Philip Juico The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association said on Friday, Jan. 28 it is moving on from its long-standing row with pole vaulter EJ Obiena to focus on other matters it needs to take care of. A statement signed by Patafa president Philip Ella Juico and chairman Rufus Rodriguez...
Tokyo Olympic pole vaulter EJ Obiena could only wish for better days amid his ongoing rift with the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA). EJ Obiena (AFP) With less than a month before opening his indoor season in Karlsruhe, Germany, Obiena admitted that his training and...
Philip Ella Juico, president of the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA), said he will contest the decision of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) declaring him persona non grata amid the ongoing feud between the national sports association and elite pole vaulter EJ Obiena....
Maureen Emily Schrijvers BAGUIO CITY—Track specialists Maureen Emily Schrijvers and Bernalyn Bejoy each won two gold medals and in the process made themselves the standard bearers for the national team as the two-day Ayala Philippine Athletics Championship came to a close in chilling conditions...
Kath Santos wins the women's long jump during the Ayala Philippine Athletic Championships at Baguio City Athletic Bowl BAGUIO CITY—Back to her usual playground and buoyed by the loud cheers from a sizable crowd, hometown hero Katherine Khay Santos delivered a performance to remember after topping...
EJ Obiena and her mother Jeanette (Screenshot from The Chasedown) Ahead of the highly anticipated men’s final of pole vault event in athletics of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Jeanette Obiena thinks her son, Ernest John Obiena, is already a champion by being an Olympian. The elder Obiena said it was a...
Photo from AFP Hidilyn Diaz is already in the country since Wednesday, but she remains glued to the television and has regularly been updating on social media on the developments with regards to the campaign of Team Philippines in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan. Diaz, the first gold medal winner...
Kristina Knott (MB File Photo) Kristina Knott’s dream doesn’t stop at just earning a berth to the Tokyo Olympics next month. The Fil-American sprinter said she is determined to make the most out of her experience at the grandest sports stage in the world despite facing tall odds in her event,...
EJ Obiena (MB File Photo) Pole vaulter EJ Obiena toughened up his Tokyo Olympics preparations after capturing the gold medal in the Gothenburg Athletics Grand Prix in Gothenburg, Sweden Wednesday (early Thursday in Manila). Obiena, the first of the nine Filipino athletes who qualified to the Games,...
EJ Obiena Pole vaulter EJ Obiena intensifies his Tokyo Olympics preparations when he competes in the Gothenburg Athletics Grand Prix in Gothenburg, Sweden Wednesday (early Thursday in Manila). Obiena, one of the nine Filipinos bound for the Games and now ranked No. 11 in the world, will have his...
Kristina Knott. (MB File Photo) Fil-American trackster Kristina Knott boosted her campaign for an Olympic spot by claiming the silver medal in the Pure Athletics Spring Invitational in Clermont, Florida over the weekend. Knott, a double gold medalist at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, clocked 11.36...
Filipino-American sprinter Kristina Knott (REUTERS / Athit Perawongmetha) The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) is eyeing three more athletes to earn berths to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics set July 3 to Aug. 8. PATAFA President Philip Ella Juico said tracksters Eric Cray and...
