Team Philippines has bagged one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals to lead teams from Southeast Asia in the 2022 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships held in Goyang, South Korea.
Filipino taekwondo jins Jocel Lyn Ninobla and Rodolfo Reyes Jr. have barged into the top 3 and top 4 of the latest World Poomsae Ranking following their successful medal stints in various international tournaments.
Darius Venerable is the Philippines’ silver medalist in the 2019 SEA Games. Photo of 2019 winning tournament from Facebook.
The Philippines’ Darius Venerable bagged the gold medal in the recently held 2020 Online World Taekwondo-Asia Championships Poomsae Open.
The Philippine National Team member from the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) registered 7.02 points outranking six other taekwondo players in the Men’s Poomsae Freestyle category held in a live-streamed event on December 4, 2020.
Venerable, who won a gold medal at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in Vietnam in 2019, beat players from South Korea, Indonesia, and Thailand.
The gold medalist, who hails from Candelaria, Quezon, overtook silver medalist Kim Ji Won of South Korea with a 0.22 point lead.