Eron Borres and Althea Bacaro. | AWF photographs
TAGBILARAN CITY, Philippines — Cebuano weightlifters Eron Borres and Althea Bacaro bagged medals on the 2024 Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships held on December 19 on the Radisson Blu Resort in Doha, Qatar.
Borres clinched the gold medal within the males’s youth 49-kilogram division’s snatch class, whereas Bacaro secured the silver medal within the ladies’s youth -40 kg class total.
Borres, an skilled competitor and gold medalist within the 2023 AWF Asian Youth Championships in India, dominated the lads’s 49 kg division snatch.
He lifted 101 kilograms within the snatch to say the gold medal regardless of an unsuccessful try at 115 kilograms within the clear and jerk.
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Fellow Filipino Aldrin Colonia captured the general gold in the identical division with a mixed raise of 213 kilograms, comprising 118 kilograms within the clear and jerk and 98 kilograms within the snatch.
In the meantime, Bacaro, competing in her first Asian Youth Championships, displayed immense potential by lifting a complete of 128 kilograms to safe the general silver medal within the ladies’s -40 kg class. She efficiently lifted 55 kilograms within the snatch and 73 kilograms within the clear and jerk.
The Cebuano weightlifters Borres and Bacaro have been found and educated by Olympians and weightlifting trainers Ramon Solis and Christopher Bureros of the Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas (SWP).
Indonesia’s Jyoshna Sabar topped the ladies’s -40 kg division with a complete raise of 135 kilograms, whereas Vietnam’s Hoang Khanh Vy settled for the bronze with 125 kilograms.
The Philippines’ different medalists included Angeline Colonia, who lifted 157 kilograms to say silver within the ladies’s -45 kg class, and Alexandra Diaz, who earned the bronze in the identical division with a complete raise of 148 kilograms.
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