EJ Obiena auctions off SEA Games winning shoes for Filipino kids

Agence France Presse 05/10/2023

Pole vault star EJ Obiena will auction off his gold-medal-winning spikes to raise money for children back home in the Philippines who practice in a sawdust pit. World-ranked number three Obiena took his third consecutive gold at…

EJ Obiena wins another gold in Golden Fly Liechtenstein

Glendale G. Rosal 09/12/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines—- Filipino pole vault star Ernest John “EJ” Obiena flexed his winning form anew by winning the gold medal in the Golden Fly Series Liechtenstein leg on Sunday, September 11, 2022 ( September 12, Manila…

Duplantis given ‘wake-up call’ as Obiena seizes pole vault win in Brussels

Agence France Presse 09/03/2022

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis vowed that any danger of becoming complacent would be shelved after he suffered a rare defeat at Friday’s Diamond League meet in Brussels. Duplantis failed three times at 5.91 metres, falling…

EJ Obiena wins second gold in five days

June Navarro 08/29/2022

Pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena seized another gold medal in a span of five days, this time in the True Athletes Classic 2022 in Leverkusen, Germany. The world’s No. 3 vaulter hurdled 5.81 meters on his second…

A day of reckoning

June Navarro, Musong Castillo 11/24/2021

The financial brouhaha involving Olympian EJ Obiena and his national federation, the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa), has taken a really ugly turn no one saw coming. And a source from the athletic body privy…

3 of 11 abused Mactan children may go home

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/02/2014

Three of the 15 children who were rescued last month from a resort where they were used for child pornography can go back to their families. Lawyer Noemi Truya-Abarientos of the Children’s Legal Bureau said the rest…

Central Visayas bags 2 golds

Calvin D. Cordova 05/05/2014

  Woodpushers deliver first gilts for  Cviraa Sta. Cruz, Laguna— Day one of competition belonged to an athlete from the host province for winning the first gold medal in the 2014 Palarong Pambansa yesterday at the Laguna…

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