ALMOHAIDIB Abad gave the Philippines its 13th bronze medal at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia with a podium finish in the pencak silat men’s single final on Wednesday.
Mr. Abad scored a total of 455 points behind Indonesian Sugianto Sugianto, who won the gold with 471 points, and silver medallist Ilyas Sadara of Thailand with 460 points.
The General Santos City native, with the bronze finish, joined the taekwondo poomsae men’s and women’s teams, taekwondo jin Pauline Lopez, wushu’s Agatha Wong and Divine Wally, BMX cyclist Daniel Caluag, jiu-jitsu’s Meggie Ochoa, golfer Bianca Pagdanganan and pencak silat’s Jeffrey Rhey Loon , Dines Dumaan and Cherry Mae Regalado and Karate’s Junna Tsukii. — Michael Angelo S. Murillo
