Powerlifting bet Reboton settles for 9th place in Birmingham WG

JOYCE GAIL REBOTON wound up ninth in women’s powerlifting on Sunday locking the Philippine campaign in the Birmingham World Games to Junna Tsukii’s karate gold medal so far.

The 30-year-old Reboton, lifting out of Mabalacat, Pampanga, accumulated 99.16 points from her 242.50 kgs in squat), 147.50 kgs in bench press and 212.5 kgs in deadlift to finish ninth among 12 athletes in the heavyweight finals.

Poland’s Agata Sitko won the gold medal with 119.12 points (270 kgs squat, 195 kgs bench press and 261 kgs deadlift), with the Virgin Island’s Kelsey Mccarthy bagging silver with 109.44 (242.5-170 kg-212.5) and Italy’s Francesca Parrello taking home the bronze with 106.25 (257.5-140-247.5 kg).

“Hopefully there will be more opportunities for more exposure for me,” Reboton said from the Team Philippines’s quarters in Alabama. “I hope I made our country proud. We will train harder and come back stronger.”

Brazil’s Cicesara Tavares (105.46), Norway’s Marte Elverum (104.57), Germany’s Cathrin Silberzahn (101.52), Slovakia’s Ivana Horna (101.42) and Ecuador’s Johanna Aguinaga Ramos (100.52) finished ahead of Reboton.

Rounding out the competition were Ines Kharer of Austria (92.92), Sonja Kruger of Germany (91.84) and Kloie Doublin of Virgin Islands (disqualified).

“It was a very good effort for Joyce and Coach Willord Capulong,” Chef de Mission Patrick “Pato” Gregorio, also the rowing president, said.

Reboton made the World Games as a wildcard following her four gold medals in the 76-kg class of the 2021 Asian Classic-equipped Powerlifting and Bench Press Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.

Tsukii ruled on Saturday the women’s kumite -50 kgs gold medal in karate’s women’s kumite for the country’s second gold medal in the World Games after Carlos Biado’s men’s 9-ball of billiards victory in the Wroclaw 2019 edition of the competition that feature widely-played sports that are not on the Olympic program.

Biado and Rubilen Amit will be competing in billiards, Annie Ramirez in jiu-jitsu, Philip Delarmino and Leeana Bade in muaythai and Marion Kim Mangrobang, John Chicano and Fernando Caseres in duathlon in the following days of the

10-day games that gathered 3,600 athletes from

110 countries.