Southeast Asian Video games – Wushu – Chroy Changvar Conference Centre Corridor A, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Might 12, 2023 Philippines’ Agatha Chrystenzen Fernandez Wong celebrates successful gold within the ladies’s Taijijian throughout the medal ceremony REUTERS/Cindy Liu
HANGZHOU, China—Agatha Wong has tailored to juggling her time between coaching and medical college.
Though each are demanding, Wong prefers to not return residence and not using a medal from the nineteenth Asian Video games.
The nation’s premier taolu performer will flip the mat on the Xiaoshan Guali Sports activities Centre right here into her playground on Sunday when hostilities in wushu take flight.
“Coaching whereas finding out has been robust. You must steadiness every little thing,” stated Wong, the freshman on the UERM Memorial Medical Heart who’s out to raised her bronze medal in 2018 Jakarta.
The 25-year-old looker is entered within the ladies’s taijiquan and taijijian (sword play) all-around, disciplines she used to ace within the Southeast Asian Video games.
“Once more, I all the time give my greatest once I carry out. We’ll see,” stated Wong.
She gained a pair of taijiquan gold medals within the SEA Video games and two extra within the taijijian occasion earlier than wushu federation officers determined to merge each occasions starting on the Cambodia SEA Video games early this yr.
Wong’s crowning glory was a silver medal in taijiquan throughout the 2015 World Wushu Championships in Jakarta.
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