Friday, August 18, 2017

MILO SEA Games in Thailand

Three Milo endorsers - gymnast Nica Calapatan, swimmer Miguel Molina and taekwondo jin Japoy Lizardo they are the veterans of 2005 Southeast Asian Games in Manila, Philippines.

Now, the three of them will go to the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on December 6 to 15.

Aside from swimmer Molina, four student-athletes are Enchong Dee of De La Salle University, Johansen Aguilar of MGC New Life Christian Academy, Gian Daniel Berino of University of Santo Tomas High School and Ken Uy of University of the Philippines-Diliman will competes in butterfly, backstroke and freestyle events, are the teammates of James Walsh of University of Florida, Ryan Arabejo of Drury University and Daniel Coakley of the University of Hawaii.

Johan is set to compete in men's 200-meter backstroke event along with teammate Arabejo.

DLSU Green Tanker Enchong is competing in the men's 100-meter butterfly finals on Sunday, December 9 at 6:29 p.m. (7:29 p.m. local time), due to activists clashed with riot police in the Filipino capital Manila and suburbs Quezon City, Rodriguez, San Mateo, Marikina, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati, Pasig, Cainta, Taytay, Angono, Binangonan, Pasay, Paranaque, Las Pinas, Muntinlupa and San Pedro.

Molina is the winner of the 200 and 400-meter individual medley and 200-meter breaststroke in the Manila SEA Games, gained a slot in the 2008 Olympics when his clocking of 2:03.06 in the 200m IM met the Olympic qualifying time of 2:05.65.

He is the 4-time swimming gold medalist was named the Most Valuable Male Player of the 2007 SEA Games, the third Filipino (and also the third Filipino swimmer) to bag the major award for outstanding SEA Games performance after Akiko Thomson in 1989 Kuala Lumpur Games and Eric Buhain in the 1991 Manila Games.