Southeast Asian Games – Wushu – Chroy Changvar Convention Centre Hall A, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – May 12, 2023 Philippines’ Agatha Chrystenzen Fernandez Wong celebrates profitable gold within the ladies’s Taijijian in the course of the medal ceremony REUTERS/Cindy Liu
HANGZHOU, China—Agatha Wong has tailored to juggling her time between coaching and medical college.
Although each are demanding, Wong prefers to not return house and not using a medal from the nineteenth Asian Games.
The nation’s premier taolu performer will flip the mat on the Xiaoshan Guali Sports Centre right here into her playground on Sunday when hostilities in wushu take flight.
“Training while studying has been tough. You have to balance everything,” stated Wong, the freshman on the UERM Memorial Medical Center 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 Games.
“Again, I always give my best when I perform. We’ll see,” stated Wong.
She received a pair of taijiquan gold medals within the SEA Games and two extra within the taijijian occasion earlier than wushu federation officers determined to merge each occasions starting on the Cambodia SEA Games early this yr.
Wong’s crowning glory was a silver medal in taijiquan in the course of the 2015 World Wushu Championships in Jakarta.
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