Beaming Filipino Abigail Abad celebrates after winning the women's welter weight 60kg padded stick competition in arnis at the 30th South-East Asian (SEA) Games at the Clark City, Tarlac province, northern Philippines. - AP
MANILA (Dec 31, ANN): Hitting 25 golds in just the second day of the 30th South-East Asian (SEA) Games, the Philippines has surpassed its gold medal output from the 2017 edition of the regional sports meet.
Golds from Monica Torres (duathlon), Lea Denise Belgira (women’s downhill mountainbike) and John Derick Farr (men’s downhill mountainbike) on Monday (Dec 2) assured the country a better finish than the 2017 Games, where it only got 24 golds overall.
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