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SEAG: Tabique nabs bronze, Macrohon misses weightlifting podium

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(UPDATED) John Dexter Tabique added a bronze medal to the weightlifting team&#x27;s haul in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, but Kristel Macrohon missed out on a podium finish. Tabique finished third in the men&#x27;s 89kg class, behind Vietnam&#x27;s Quoc Toan Nguyen and Indonesia&#x27;s Muhammad Zul Ilmi during the final held at the Olympic Complex in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Tuesday.Tabique lifted 140kg in the snatch and 170kg in the clean-and-jerk for a total of 310kg. All marks are new Philippine records in the weight class. Tabique, 22, went down from the 102kg to the 89kg division for this year&#x27;s SEA Games and erased the records set by John Kevin Padullo in the division last year in Haboi, Vietnam. <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/multimedia/photo/05/15/23/pinay-weightlifter-vanessa-sarno-gets-gold">Pinay weightlifter Vanessa Sarno breaks SEA Games record</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/15/23/dominant-sarno-repeats-as-sea-games-gold-medalist">Sarno repeats as SEAG gold medalist with dominant performance</a></li></ul>Vietnam&#x27;s Nguyen lifted 155kg in the snatch and set a new games record in the clean-and-jerk when he lifted 190kg in his second attempt. He faltered in his third attempt of 193kg, but his total of 345kg is also a new SEA Games record.Meanwhile, Indonesia&#x27;s Zul Ilmi lifted 145kg in the snatch and 183kg in the clean-and-jerk for a total of 328kg. He tried to set a new record of 201kg in his third attempt in the clean-and-jerk but no-lifted.&quot;May kaba po ako, pero hindi ako nagpadala sa emosyon,&quot; said Tabique of his performance. &quot;Ang goal namin ay mailagay siya sa medal position sa first competition niya, at sa bagong weight class niya. Nagawa namin iyun. Galing siya sa 102, at nag-aadjust pa,&quot; said national team coach Tony Agustin.Macrohon was unable to make it to the podium in the women&#x27;s +71kg weight class, with her total of 221kg last among four lifters.Macrohon won gold in the -71kg class in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games but has since moved up in weight. In Phnom Penh, she lifted 101kg in the snatch and 120kg in the clean-and-jerk. Thailand&#x27;s Duangaksorn Chaidee won gold with a total lift of 270kg, followed by Indonesia&#x27;s Nurul Akmal (263kg) and Vietnam&#x27;s Si Ro Pha (246kg).The Philippine weightlifting team has produced two golds in Cambodia, courtesy of Olympian Elreen Ando (women&#x27;s 59kg) and rising star Vanessa Sarno (women&#x27;s 71kg).They also have four silvers: John Ceniza (men&#x27;s 61kg), Angelina Colonia (women&#x27;s 45kg), Lovely Inan (women&#x27;s 49kg) and Rosalinda Faustino (women&#x27;s 55kg).Indonesia dominated weightlifting with five golds, a silver and four bronzes, followed by Vietnam (3-1-2). <div>For more stories on the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, click <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/seagames2023">here</a>.</div>

John Dexter Tabique added a bronze medal to the weightlifting team's haul in the 32nd SEA Games, but Kristel Macrohon missed out on a podium finish. 