September 8, 2025 | 6:53pm
MANILA, Philippines — EJ Obiena primed up for the World Athletics Championships subsequent week with a bronze medal in World Athletics Continental Tour in Beijing, China over the weekend.
Obiena leaped for five.65 meters to win the bronze medal behind champion residence wager Tao Zhong and Cole Walsh from the US.
Zhong and Walsh each cleared 5.75m with the Chinese language standout claiming the gold through countback.
Obiena, who had a fourth-place end within the 2024 Paris Olympics, will shoot for extra glory on the earth conclave set Sept. 13 to 21 in Tokyo, Japan.
He had a historic silver medal-finish within the 2023 version in Hungary after setting a Philippine and Asian file of 6.00 meters to complete simply behind multi-titled and Paris gold medalist Armand Duplantis (6.10m) of Sweden.
In preparation for that, Obiena thus far has made it to the rostrum of 9 worldwide tournaments this 12 months.
The 2-time Olympian final July gained a silver medal within the Assembly Madrid in Spain with 5.80m.
Obiena is presently No. 7 on the earth males’s pole vault rankings forward of the world meet in opposition to a cracked subject led by Duplantis.
