August 11, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines struck with a primary podium achievement within the 2025 World Video games courtesy of woman warrior Kaila Napolis who claimed the silver in jiu-jitsu ne-waza -52kg in Chengdu, China yesterday.
Napolis barely missed out on a golden effort in falling towards Im Eon Ju of South Korea however nonetheless made the nation proud together with her preventing efficiency.
And it could be the beginning of one thing large for the lean however imply Philippine delegation headed by chef-de-mission Stephen Arapoc.
Napolis made the gold-medal battle by edging Israeli Pnina Aronov within the semis.
However in taking a shot at becoming a member of pool artist Carlo Biado and karateka Junna Tsukii within the elite group of Filipino World Video games gold winners, Napolis bumped into the fearsome South Korean and simply couldn’t discover a solution.
She went down in defeat within the finale on the identical day fellow jiu-jitsu fighter Annie Ramirez and wakeboarder Ralph Trinidad missed out on a possible medal hit.
Ramirez, the Asian Video games gold medalist, dropped two bouts and went out of competition within the girls’s -57kg class.
In the meantime, Trinidad got here near snatching a bronze within the males’s cable occasion however a late, heartbreaking mistake within the closing stunt denied him that chance.
He ended up fourth with 56.60 factors within the self-discipline dominated by France’s Loic Deschaux, who had a spectacular 95.00.
Germans Max Milde (92.80) and Florian Weiherer (65.00) took the silver and bronze, respectively.
In billiards, Chezka Centeno carried the battle in girls’s 10-ball, beating Savannah Easton of the USA, 7-2. She faces hometown guess Yu Han as we speak at 9 a.m.
Rubilen Amit bowed to Pia Filler of Germany, 4-7. She battles one other Chinese language, Shasha Liu, at 3:30 p.m.
In wushu, Krizan Religion Collado defeated Elisabetta Sirto of Italy, 2-0, girls’s sanda -52kg occasion on the Hello-Tech Zone Sports activities Centre Gymnasium.
