John Dexter Tabique | Facebook photograph
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebuano weightlifter John Dexter Tabique leads a three-man Philippine squad within the Singapore Weightlifting Festival 2025, which takes place this Sunday, June 15.
Tabique, a bronze medalist within the 2023 Southeast Asian Games and a varsity standout from the University of Cebu (UC), will compete within the males’s 98-kilogram division. He is accompanied by his coach, Olympian Ramon Solis.
Joining him in Singapore are Boholano lifter Dave Pacaldo and Zamboanga’s Elaika Lozada. Pacaldo, a three-time gold medalist within the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Games, is at the moment competing within the males’s 65kg class. Lozada will take the platform on Sunday within the girls’s 77kg division.
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Coach Solis shared that Tabique opted to skip the continued Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas (SWP) National Championships in Dumaguete City to deal with worldwide publicity. Tabique beforehand gained gold in the course of the nationwide championships held in Cebu final yr.
Last April, Tabique was among the many Cebuano athletes honored in the course of the thirty ninth Sportswriters Association of Cebu–San Miguel Brewery (SAC–SMB) Cebu Sports Awards. He was acknowledged alongside fellow lifter and two-time Olympian Elreen Ando.
John Dexter Tabique’s class options prime rivals from the area, together with Vietnam’s Toan Nguyen Quoc, Dung Tran Xuan, and Tran Dinh Thang; Singapore’s Lim Kang Yin and Oon Yuen Tzem; Brunei’s Felipe Balik Muhd; Malaysia’s Prasit Jomdhetphichaya and Muhammad Faris Haikal Kamarul; Thailand’s Rungsuriya Yothaphon; and Indonesia’s Carel Julius Hildebrand.
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