NATIONAL athlete Andrea Robles tries to sustain her winning streak in the fourth and final leg of the Philippine Archery Cup from October 27 to 30 at the STI Archery Center in Marikina City.
The 24-year-old Southeast Asian Games veteran is hoping to top the fourth leg after bagging two gold medals for the ranking No. 1 in the round and Olympic rounds of Leg 3 in Mandaue City last July.
“I have been working to improve my mental and physical sides. I want to be in the best of shape as possible,” Robles told BusinessMirror Thursday.
Robles, of Cubao in Quezon City, is targeting another shot at the Cambodia 32nd Southeast Asian Games in May and possibly the Hangzhou 19th Asian Games in September. She’ll also go for the qualifiers to the Paris 2024 Olympics.
But the Management graduate at Ateneo who now works as employee engagement at Globe’s Human Resource department, shared her only focus for now is the final leg in Marikina. “I have to focus only in this tournament and try to get the gold medals again,” she said.
Some 300 archers—including Southeast Asian Games gold medalists Jennifer Chan, Rachelle Anne dela Cruz and Joann Tabanag—are vying in the event.
Robles is the first Filipino to win a women’s compound individual gold medal in the Indoor Archery World Series in Macau, China, in 2019. She also bagged two bronzes at the Singapore Archery Open last month.