2 PH judo bets triumph

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:04:34 +0000

SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA — Host Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia all bagged two golds each to open the curtains of the 30th Southeast Asian Games Judo championships, Thursday at the Laus Group Events Centre here.

Watanabe

 The star of opening day was without a doubt 23-year-old Filipino-Japanese judoka Kiyomi Watanabe.

*Thank you for the support. The support from the home crowd was great,” said Watanabe.

 The 23-year-old product of Waseda University won her fourth straight SEA Games gold by sweeping minus-63kg division, 2-0. Watanabe dominated Malaysia’s Nik Norlydiawati Nik Azman and Myanmar’s Chu Myat Noe Wai via two quick ippons.

 Sharing the limelight with Watanabe was 22-year-old Shugen Nakano. Nakano defeated Indonesia’s Budi Prasetiyo with an ippon 3:43 into the round to win the gold in the -66kg division.

 “Dahil sa suporta ng mga Pilipino kaya ako naka-gold. ‘Yung lakas ko, nanggaling talaga sa mga suporta. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!,” said Nakano, who won bronze back in 2017 during the Kuala Lumpur games.

 On the other hand, Thailand’s Masayuki Terada kept her domain of the women’s -73kg while her compatriot Kachakom Warasiha won her first-ever SEA Games gold by taking down the -52kg division.

 Terada swept her division 2-0 while Warasiha need
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