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Published July 1, 2021, 7:58 AM Screen grab from the tournament livestream courtesy of World Athletics Youtube channel Pole vaulter EJ Obiena shattered his own national outdoor record Wednesday (early Thursday in Manila) after settling for the silver medal in the Irena Szewinska Memorial-Bydgoszcz Cup in Poland. Showing his readiness to the Tokyo Olympics, Obiena cleared 5.87 meters on his second attempt on his way to resetting his own outdoor mark of 5.85m established at the Jump & Fly meet in Mossingen, Germany last June 12. The world No. 10 tried to further his record at 5.92m but failed....

Report30 Jun 2021 Anita Wlodarczyk wins in Bydgoszcz (© Pawel Skraba) There was a storm brewing in the grey skies above Bydgoszcz on Wednesday evening (30). But it was within the confines of the Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak Stadium where the real thunder and lightning was unleashed at the Irena Szewinska Memorial meeting. With exactly one month to go until the start of the athletics competitions at Tokyo 2020, several Olympic medal contenders flexed their competitive muscles and confirmed the threat they will pose in Japan. The thunder came from Poland’s hammer legends Anita Wlodarczyk and Pawel ...

Screen grab from World Athletics YouTube page EJ Obiena showed why he’s one of the best pole vaulters across the globe after clinching the silver medal behind world record holder Armand Duplantis in the prestigious FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands late Sunday. Obiena, who is in the final stages o

EJ Obiena (MB File Photo) Pole vaulter EJ Obiena toughened up his Tokyo Olympics preparations after capturing the gold medal in the Gothenburg Athletics Grand Prix in Gothenburg, Sweden Wednesday (early Thursday in Manila). Obiena, the first of the nine Filipino athletes who qualified to the Games

Published May 1, 2021, 4:25 PM Pole vaulter EJ Obiena (left) and weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz With less than 100 days before the Tokyo Games, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz and pole vaulter EJ Obiena are making the most out of their preparations to quench that thirst for the country’s first Olympic gold medal. Diaz, silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Games, said she is intensifying her training following her stint at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Uzbekistan where she missed the podium but earned a fourth Olympic berth. “Intensify everything kasi eto na, papalapit na. Ibubuhos ko na. Lahat...