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    Junna Tsukii tabs bronze in Asiad karate to add to PH tally

    Another bronze for Team Philippines
    Aug 27, 2018
    PHOTO: jerome ascaño

    JAKARTA – Junna Tsukii beat Thailand’s Raksachart Paweena, 4-1, to claim a bronze medal in the 18th Asian Games karatedo competitions at the Jakarta Convention Center.

    Tsukii hurdled the Thai karateka in the women’s -50kg kumite to take home the bronze, the first for the Philippine squad in this 18th Asiad.

    The 27-year-old Fil-Japanese karateka lost in her round-of-16 match to Bakhriniso Babaeva of Uzbekistan, 2-1, to be relegated to the repechage.

    Tsukii beat Hawraa Alajmi of United Arab Emirates, 4-2, before beating the Thailand karateka in the bronze medal bout.

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