By Jonas Terrado
Gold eluded the Philippines in road race for the second straight after Ronald Oranza, George Oconer, Jan Paul Morales and Jhon Mark Camingao settled for a bronze medal in the men’s team trial event of the 30th Southeast Asian Games in Tagaytay City.
George Oconer, Ronald Oranza, Jan Paul Morales and Jhon Mark Camingao wear their bronze medals in the men’s team time trial while posing for a photo with women’s individual time trial gold medal winner Jermyn Prado and duathlon bronze medalist Pawee Fornea. (Photo from Jermyn Prado)
The team finished the 41-kilometer distance that ended in The Praying Hands Monument at two hours, one minute and 38.099 seconds but was nearly two minutes behind eventual winner Thailand.
Thurakit Boonratanathanakorn, Navuti Liphongyu, Peerapol Chawchiangkwang and Sarawut Sirironnachai won with a time of 1:59:39.792.
Aiman Cahyadi, Odie Purnomo Setiawan, Muhammad Abdurrohman and Robin Manullang of Indonesia were second at 1:59:43.926.
The local pedal pushers seek to add to the gold won by Jermyn Prado in the women’s individual time trial in the final road race event which is a mass start that will end at the People’s Park on Sunday.
The Philippines has not won a medal in the said event since 2014 Le Tour de Filipinas winner Mark Galedo went home with a silver medal in the 2011 Games in Palembang, Indonesia.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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