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Asian Para Games: Swimmer Ernie Gawilan, chess team deliver more gold on last day

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/tvpatrol/10/10/20181012-para-games.jpg"/><figcaption>National para-chess players Jasper Rom, Henry Roger Lopez and Sander Severino won gold in the men&#x27;s team standard P1 in the Asian Para Games in Jakarta this week. <em>Courtesy of Janet Tenorio</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Victories on Thursday by Sander Severino and his national chess teammates helped to bump up the Philippines&#x27; record-breaking medal haul at the close of its campaign in the 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia.</p><p>Swimmer Ernie Gawilan and cyclist Arthus Bucay also added a title each, as the Filipinos punctuated their weeklong showing in Jakarta with 10 gold medals.</p><p>Prior to the national team&#x27;s arrival in the Indonesia Games, the Philippines hadn&#x27;t won a single gold in the continental meet.</p><p>Severino took a pair of gold in the men&#x27;s individual and men&#x27;s team rapid P1 competitions, while Henry Roger Lopez earned a silver (individual P1).</p><p>Severino, part of the teams that also won gold in men&#x27;s standard P1 and men&#x27;s standard VI B2/B3, collected the most gold with 4.</p><p>The national chess side also added 4 bronze medals on the day.</p><p>In the pool, Gawilan won his third gold medal of the Games by topping the men&#x27;s 400 meters freestyle S7.</p><p>He earlier won in 200 meters individual medley SM7 and 100 meters backstroke S7.</p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.paralympic.org/sites/default/files/document/150915170806821_2015_09_15%2BExplanatory%2Bguide%2BClassification_summer%2BFINAL%2B_5.pdf">Paralympics website</a>, an S7 classification is &quot;designated to athletes with one leg and one arm amputation on opposite sides, or a paralysis of one arm and one leg on the same side. Moreover, swimmers with full control over arms and trunk and some leg function can compete in this class.&quot;</p><p>On the bike, Bucay copped the gold in men&#x27;s 4,000 meters individual pursuit C5, his second medal after picking up the bronze in men&#x27;s team trial C5.</p><p>According to a pbs.org <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/medal-quest/sports/detail/cycling/">breakdown</a> of para-cycling classifications, competitors that fall under the C5 category are those &quot;with least impairment, including single amputation and minimal neurological dysfunction.&quot;</p><p>The Filipinos&#x27; 4-2-4 gold-silver-bronze medal harvest on Thursday upped their overall medal count to 29, a number that dwarfed the country&#x27;s performance in the 2 previous Para Games.</p><p>The Philippines ended up with 10 overall in the Incheon, South Korea Games in 2014 and 7 in the Guangzhou, China Games in 2010. The Filipinos went home without a gold in both editions.</p><div><strong>Here is the breakdown of all of the Philippines&#x27; 19 medals so far:</strong></div><div><strong>GOLD (10)</strong></div><ul>	<li>Kim Ian Chi (bowling, mixed singles TPB10)</li>	<li>Sander Severino (chess, men&#x27;s individual standard P1)</li>	<li>Sander Severino (chess, men&#x27;s individual rapid P1)</li>	<li>Redor Menandro, Israel Peligro and Arman Subaste (chess, men&#x27;s team standard VI - B2/B3)</li>	<li>Henry Roger Lopez, Jasper Rom and Sander Severino (chess, men&#x27;s team standard P1)</li>	<li>Henry Roger Lopez, Jasper Rom and Sander Severino (chess, men&#x27;s team rapid P1)</li>	<li>Arthus Bucay (cycling, men&#x27;s 4,000 meters individual pursuit C5)</li>	<li>Ernie Gawilan (swimming, 100 meter backstroke S7)</li>	<li>Ernie Gawilan (swimming, 200 meters individual medley SM7)</li>	<li>Ernie Gawilan (swimming, 400 meters freestyle S7)</li></ul><div><strong>SILVER (8)</strong></div><ul>	<li>Kim Ian Chi and Samuel Matias (bowling, mixed doubles TPB10 + TPB10)</li>	<li>Redor Menandro (chess, men&#x27;s individual standard VI - B2/B3)</li>	<li>Henry Roger Lopez (chess, men&#x27;s individual rapid P1)</li>	<li>Archelle Guion (powerlifting, 45 kilograms)</li>	<li>Gary Bejino (swimming, men&#x27;s 200 meters individual medley SM6 5-6)</li>	<li>Ernie Gawilan (swimming, men&#x27;s 50 meters freestyle S7)</li>	<li>Ernie Gawilan (swimming, men&#x27;s 100 meters freestyle S7)</li>	<li>Josephine Medina (table tennis, women&#x27;s singles TT8)</li></ul><div><strong>BRONZE (11)</strong></div><ul>	<li>Jasper Rom (chess, men&#x27;s individual standard P1)</li>	<li>Jasper Rom (chess, men&#x27;s individual rapid P1)</li>	<li>Armand Subaste (chess, men&#x27;s individual standard VI - B2/B3)</li>	<li>Arman Subaste (chess, men&#x27;s individual rapid B2/B3)</li>	<li>Cecilio Bilog, Francis Ching and Rodolfo Sarmiento (chess, men&#x27;s team rapid B)</li>	<li>Redor Menandro, Israel Peligro and Arman Subaste (chess, men&#x27;s rapid B2/B3)</li>	<li>Taberna Godfrey (cycling, men&#x27;s road race C4)</li>	<li>Arthus Bucay (cycling, men&#x27;s time trial)</li>	<li>Adeline Ancheta-Dumapong (powerlifting, women&#x27;s 86 kilograms)</li>	<li>Gary Bejino (swimming, men&#x27;s 100 meters freestyle S6)</li>	<li>Gary Bejino (swimming, 100 meters backstroke)</li></ul><div><strong>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</strong></div>

<p>Sander Severino took a pair of gold medals in the men's individual and team rapid P1 competition, while Henry Roger Lopez earned a silver (individual P1).</p>

Sander Severino took a pair of gold medals in the men's individual and team rapid P1 competition, while Henry Roger Lopez earned a silver (individual P1).