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Asian Games: Pinay swimmer Yu makes it to final round of women's 200m

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<h3>Filipino trap shooter triumphant, too</h3>The Philippines’ Roxanne Ashley Yu made it to the finals of the women&#x27;s 200-meters by qualifying eight and last after the heats in the swimming competition of the 18th Asian Games at the Aquatics Center inside the Gelura Bung Karno complex in Jakarta.Yu, a 21-year-old graduating student of Criminology at the University of Miami-Florida, clocked 2:19:12 in the event’s first of three heats to finish second behind China’s Yaxim Liu, who submitted the fastest qualifying time of 2:09.52s.Yu, who clinched a bronze medal in last year’s Kuala Lumpur Southeast Games in the same event, will battle for a medal in the final set at 6 p.m. against Liu, Xuwei Peng also of China (2:11.39s), Dasol Im of Korea (2:12.24), Natsumi Sakai of Japan (2:12.30), Sayaka Akase of Japan (2:12.25), Toto Kwan To Wong of Hong kOng (2:15.90) and Nurul Fajar Fitriyati of host Indonesia (2:18.64).Meanwhile in Palembang, Hagen Topacio stormed back to score 71 points and wind up in a tie for third with six others after the first three rounds of the trap event at the Jakabaring Sports City range.Vying in a field of 30 entries, Topacio was off in the first round, gunning down 21 clay pigeons, but regained his bearings to hit all of his 25 flying targets in the succeeding two rounds, finishing one point behind joint leaders Manavjit Sandhu Singh of India and Pakistan’s Aamer Iqbal, who both shot identical 72s.There are two more qualifying rounds on Monday, with the top six shooters after five rounds advancing to the semis, and then the finals also on the same day.Topacio will be seeking to end the country’s 16-year-old medal drought since Jethro Dionisio bagged an individual bronze medal in trap while teaming up with Eric Ang and Jimmy Recio in capturing the team bronze in the 2002 Busan Asian Games.For more sports coverage, visit the ABS-CBN <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com" target="_blank">Sports website.</a>

The Philippines’ Roxanne Ashely Yu made it to the finals of the women's 200-meters by qualifying eight and last after the heats in the swimming competition of the 18th Asian Games at the Aquatics Center inside the Gelura Bung Karno complex in Jakarta.

The Philippines’ Roxanne Ashely Yu made it to the finals of the women's 200-meters by qualifying eight and last after the heats in the swimming competition of the 18th Asian Games at the Aquatics Center inside the Gelura Bung Karno complex in Jakarta.