MMA fighter Charlie Ratcliff and trackster Pi Durden Wangkay added to the Philippines\u2019 gold medal haul in the ongoing Asian Youth Games in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old Ratcliff made easy work of Nakanataphon Khaihong of Thailand in the girls\u2019 45-kg modern MMA event.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels wonderful. There are a lot of sacrifices to win the medal, the gold medal and the silver medal,\u201d said Charlie.<\/p>\n
Her brother Travis claimed silver in the boys\u2019 60-kg traditional MMA category.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sacrifices of time management for school and sports are now worth it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the 16-year-old Wangkay delivered the country\u2019s third gold medal after ruling the 200-meter dash.<\/p>\n
Wangkay clocked 21.76 seconds to secure the gold.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first po, noong hindi po ako nanalo sa 100 [meters], sobrang nalungkot po ako,\u201d said Wangkay, who finished fifth in that event.<\/p>\n
\u201cNapag-isipan ko po buong gabi, pauwi pa lang po. Iniba ko po \u2019yung mindset ko dito. In-imagine ko po na local meet lang, na deserve ko \u2019to,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
(At first, when I didn’t win the 100, it made me so sad… I thought about it all night, on the way home. I changed my mindset. I imagined this was just a local meet, that I deserved this.)<\/p>\n
The gold medals from Ratcliff and Wangkay came after Kram Airam Carpio\u2019s victory in pencak silat.<\/p>\n
\u2014Justin Kenneth Carandang\/JMB, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA fighter Charlie Ratcliff and trackster Pi Durden Wangkay added to the Philippines\u2019 gold medal haul in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[110166,64,63,144375,786,785,144377,85,144376],"class_list":["post-241937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-asian-youth-games","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charlie-ratcliff","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-pi-durden-wangkay","tag-sports","tag-travis-ratcliff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}