RODOLFO REYES bagged a gold medal in the 2020 Lents Taekwondo Worldwide Online Poomsae Open-held over the weekend.
Reyes, a gold medalist in the Philippine 30th Southeast Asian Games, topped the men’s under-30 event with 7.350 points, beating Choo Rok Oh of Korea who clinched silver with 7.235 and Chiou Mu En of Taiwan who settled for the bronze with 7.185.
Another national athlete, 30th SEA Games silver medalist Patrick King Perez, wound up fourth with 7.150 points.
“For flag and country,” said the veteran internationalist Reyes, fighting out of University of Santo Tomas, said in his social-media account.
Former world champion Ernesto Guzman Jr., meanwhile, pocketed the silver medal in the men’s over-30 7.130 points. Korea’s Ji Ho Chul (7.245) and the US’s Minki Seong (7.020) finished 1-2 in the event.