{"id":415694,"date":"2026-06-09T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=415694"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:22:59","slug":"6-ph-athletes-in-modern-pentathlon-qualify-for-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/6-ph-athletes-in-modern-pentathlon-qualify-for-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"6 PH athletes in modern pentathlon qualify for Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six athletes, four male and two females, in modern pentathlon have qualified for the 20th Asian Games scheduled Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in Nagoya-Aichi, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two poomsae and kyorugi athletes in taekwondo also qualified last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe got the email from the organizers about the qualification of six modern pentathlon athletes and that\u2019s another good news for our campaign. The opportunities to do better in Nagoya and Aichi continues to grow wider,&#8221; Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham Tolentino said in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines, which bagged four gold, two silver and 12 bronze medals in the Hangzhou 2022 (2023) edition, will be spearheaded by Paris 2024 Olympics gymnastics double gold medalist Carlos Yulo and reigning champion and record holder pole vaulter EJ Obiena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that more of our athletes will qualify for the Asian Games, where the competitions have gotten close to the level of the Olympics,\u201d Tolentino, who also serves as cycling federation president, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the more welcome developments for the Asian Games was the qualification of the men and women teams in indoor volleybal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women\u2019s beach volleyball is a shoo-in following the gold medal win in the Bangkok Asian Games in December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six athletes, four male and two females, in modern pentathlon have qualified for the 20th Asian Games scheduled Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in Nagoya-Aichi, Japan. Two poomsae and kyorugi athletes in taekwondo also qualified last week. \u201cWe got the email from the organizers about the qualification of six modern pentathlon athletes and that\u2019s another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415695,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415694\/revisions\/415695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}