Biado misses podium finish, Caceres 14th in duathlon

MANILA, Philippines, July 18 ------ The Philippines suffered painful defeats as cue artist Carlo Biado and duathletes Kim Mangrobang and Fer Caceres fell by the wayside against the strong foreign challenges in The World Games in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday.

Biado, the gold winner in Wroclaw, Poland five years ago, absorbed an 11-8 defeat to German Joshua Filler in the semifinals and then succumbed to Singaporean Aloysius Yapp in the battle for the bronze medal via the same score and wound up fourth.

In duathlon, Caceres finished 14th in the men’s division in an hour, 53 minutes and 57 seconds while Mangrobang was one of the 12 participants in the women’s side who were disqualified due to confusion caused by what national coach Ani de Leon-Brown described poor officiating.

Source: philstar.com