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Asian Games: Pair of Pinoys assured of bronze medals in pencak silat

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/sports/08/24/20180824_dumaan.jpg"/><figcaption>Dines Dumaan hopes to reach the gold-medal round in pencak silat in the 2018 Asian Games. Dumaan is the reigning Southeast Asian Games champion in the 45 to 50 kilograms division of the men&#x27;s tanding putra Class A event in pencak silat. <em>File/PSC media pool</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Dines Dumaan and Jefferson Loon of the Philippines notched critical wins in pencak silat in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on Friday to secure at least a bronze medal each.</p><p>Both of them won medals in the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur — Dumaan a gold in the 45 to 50 kilograms division of the men&#x27;s tanding putra Class A event, while Loon a bronze in the 60 to 65 kg division in men’s tanding Class D.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">From the Pencak Silat venue 2 Filipinos Dines Dumaan and Jefferson Loon won their QF matches and into the SEmis , assured of Bronze Medals but going for God <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AsianGames2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AsianGames2018</a> <a href="https://t.co/dvsgqtFmdr">pic.twitter.com/dvsgqtFmdr</a></p>— DYAN CASTILLEJO (@DYANCASTILLEJO) <a href="https://twitter.com/DYANCASTILLEJO/status/1032853915975348224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2018</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Dumaan topped Boynao Singh Naorem of India 5-0 in a quarterfinal match in men&#x27;s Class B, 50 to 55 kilograms event, before advancing.</p><p>Loon first downed Mateus da Silva Concecao of Timor Leste 5-0 <br/>in the round of 16, then beat Almazbek Zamirov of Kyrgyzstan 4-0 in the quarterfinals to reach the next round in men&#x27;s Class D, 60 to 65 kilograms event.</p><p>Dumaan will battle Muhammad Faizul M Nasir of Malaysia at 9:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m., Manila time) on Sunday.</p><p>Loon takes on Ngoc Toan Nguyen of Vietnam at 11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m., Manila time) on the same day.</p><p>Victories by Dumaan and Loon will send them to the gold-medal match.</p><p>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</p>

<p>Dines Dumaan and Jefferson Loon notched critical wins in pencak silat in the 2018 Asian Games on Friday to secure at least a bronze medal each.</p>

Dines Dumaan and Jefferson Loon notched critical wins in pencak silat in the 2018 Asian Games on Friday to secure at least a bronze medal each.