Gilas Pilipinas opened its 19th Asian Games bid in style, cruising past Bahrain, 89-61, in the men's basketball event at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Justin Brownlee lead the way for Gilas Pilipinas (PSC-POC Media Pool) The Nationals didn't look like a team...
Kursten Lopez and Ancilla Lucia Mari Manzano made their medal campaigns felt at the 19 th Asian Games after qualifying in the all-around and vault finals, respectively, in artistic gymnastics on Monday night in China. Ancilla Manzano was the lone Filipina to qualify to the finals in the women's...
HANGZHOU, China – Incredibly proud. That was how Fil-Canadian swimmer Kayla Sanchez felt after making two in a row in the 19th Asian Games here. Fil-Canadian swimmer Kayla Sanchez (AFP) Not in the podium but for setting new Philippine records in two times she saw action. In Monday’s...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- ESports tickets costing up to $137 are like gold dust at the Asian Games with desperate fans signing up multiple times through a lottery system in hope of seeing their gaming heroes live. South Korean e-sports player Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (center) and his colleagues salute the...
HANGZHOU, China – A group of media men from Thailand roared and chanted something in sheer delight inside the massive Main Media Center of the 19th Asian Games late Monday, Sept. 25, when taekwondo jin Panipak Wongpattanakit won the country’s first gold. EJ Obiena (File photo from EJ...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- Between 150 and 200 Asian Games athletes have already been tested for doping, the Olympic Council of Asia said on Monday, Sept. 25, with no positive results so far. Speaking at an anti-doping press conference on the second full day of the Games in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- World champion Qin Haiyang surged to the world's second fastest time this year and the Asian Games 100m breaststroke title on Monday, Sept. 25, while star freestyler Siobhan Haughey clinched Hong Kong's first-ever swimming gold medal. Winner China's Qin Haiyang celebrates his...
HANGZHOU, China – Fil-Canadian Kayla Sanchez summoned every ounce of her energy in the hope of breaking the so-called Great of Wall of China in the women’s 50-meter backstroke of the swimming competitions in the Asian Games on Monday, Sept. 25, here. But again, she failed....
Sarina Bolden’s opening goal was entirely negated as the Philippine women’s national football team suffered a 5-1 loss at the hands of world No. 20 South Korea on Monday, Sept. 25, at the Wenzhou Sports Centre Stadium in China. Filipinas' Sarina Bolden. (PWNFT) The world No. 44 Filipinas...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- She probably ought to have been in primary school, but instead Mazel Paris Alegado -- aged nine -- competed in skateboarding at the Asian Games on Monday, Sept. 25. Filipina skateboarder Mazel Paris Alegado (PSC-POC Media Pool) Alegado, thought to be the youngest athlete at the...
Gilas Pilipinas was off to a winning start in the men’s 3x3 basketball event, taking down Jordan, 13-8, in the 19th Asian Games at the Deqing Geographic Information Par Basketball Court in Hangzhou, China. Gilas Pilipinas 3x3 team John Bryan Sajonia led the way for the Filipinos as he...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- India claimed the first world record of the Hangzhou Asian Games on Monday, Sept. 25, as hosts China snapped up more gold medals and 15-year-old skateboarder Hinano Kusaki triumphed for Japan. Gold medallist Japan's Hinano Kusaki poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for...
