FILE–Philippines’ athletes and group officers arrive throughout the opening ceremony of the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photograph/Lee Jin-man)
HANGZHOU, China—Andrea Lois Lao dropped her bronze-medal contest in opposition to South Korea’s Hee Joo Choi that closed out the nation’s profitable bid in jiu jitsu on the nineteenth Asian Video games right here.
Choi took benefit of the penalties slapped on Lao, prevailing 4-0, of their battle for third within the girls’s -63kg class on Saturday on the Xiaoshan Linpu Gymnasium.
The 26-year-old Lao, a silver medalist throughout 2019 Asian championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, submitted Muhra Mahfoodh of the United Arab Emirates within the repechage to earn a crack at Choi.
Lao earlier toppled Jordan’s Yara Kakish within the spherical of 16 however fell prey to Kazakhstan’s Marian Urdabayeva, 0-3, within the quarters.
Filipino jiu jitsu grapplers pocketed two gold medals from Meggie Ochoa (-48kg) and Annie Ramirez (-57kg) and a bronze from Kaila Napolis (-52kg).
