ROBYN Brown completed a sensational run to capture the Philippines' first gold medal in the women's 400-meter hurdles event of the 2023 Asian Athletics Championship in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday.
Robyn Brown performance in 2023 Asian Athletics Championship
The reigning Southeast Asian Games bronze medalist reigned supreme in the continental meet after a stellar 57.50-second dash.
Brown bested the Japanese pair of Eri Utsonomiya (57.73 s.) and Ami Yamamoto (57.80 s.) as the lone Filipina in the eight-woman field.
“I just wanted to do my best honestly after all those disappointments in the last three SEA Games. My intention is to just finish strong,” Brown said after copping silver in Cambodia 2023 and bronze in both Philippines 2019 and Hanoi 2022.
The Fil-American sprinter holds the national record in the said event (56.44 s.), set during the recently concluded SEA Games in Cambodia.
But in order to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, Brown needs to breach the 54.85 s. benchmark time on or before the final day of Olympic qualification on June 30, 2024.
Meanwhile, his fellow Olympian counterpart Eric Cray settled for a rare sixth-place finish in the men's competition with a time of 49.76 s. — roughly one second behind eventual gold medalist and newly hailed Olympic qualifier Bassem Mohamed Hameida from Qatar (48.64 s.).
The final day of the continental tilt will feature the likes of world no. 3 pole vaulter EJ Obiena, who aims to deliver another golden touch to the medal haul of the Philippines' 21-athlete delegation.
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