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SEA Games: Macaranas paddles way to gold medal win in canoe-kayak

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Dennis Gasgonia, ABS-CBN News

<p>SUBIC BAY<strong> (UPDATED) </strong>-- The Philippine canoe-kayak team won gold and silver on the second day of competitions here in Malawaan Park on Saturday.</p><p>Hermie Macaranas outpaddled his competitors in the men’s canoe 200m finals to snare the gold a day after winning the silver medal in the canoe men’s singles 1000m event.</p><p>He finished with a time of 43:600 ahead of Myanmar’s Hlaing Wing Myo (43:740), Vietnam’s Duc Duong Ahn (44:330) and Indonesia’s Spens Stuber Mehue (DNF).</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hermie Macaranas wins gold for the Philippines in the men&#x27;s 200m canoe here in Malawaan Park, Subic Bay. Yesterday he won silver in the men&#x27;s 1000m. <a href="https://t.co/6mZNU76HcL">pic.twitter.com/6mZNU76HcL</a></p>— Dennis Gasgonia (@dggasgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/dggasgo/status/1203146304764858370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Macaranas, the team captain of the country’s dragonboat squad, later added a silver medal together with Ojay Fuentes in the canoe men’s doubles 200m finals.</p><p>They clocked in at 41:081 behind the Indonesian pair of Mehue Stuber and Marjuki Marjuki (40:338)</p><p>“Hindi ko po madescribe ang pakiramdam,” said the 24-year-old Macaranas. “Pero ginto talaga ng goal natin lalo’t sa Pilipinas tayo naglaro.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Cqnoe kayak&#x27;s Ojay Fuentes and Hermie Macaranas pose with coach Leni Collantes. Macaranas now has a gold and 2 silvers while Fuentes has 1 silver. <a href="https://t.co/mi8C3IKllr">pic.twitter.com/mi8C3IKllr</a></p>— Dennis Gasgonia (@dggasgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/dggasgo/status/1203166704823484421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Fuentes, for his part, is proud of their improvement as they only nabbed bronze in the same event last SEA Games.</p><p>“Masaya kasi first time lang kaming mag-silver at gold sa event namin, so this is history. Last SEA Games namin bronze lang nakuha namin. Masaya talaga at nagimprove kami,”</p><p>Macaranas on Friday clocked in 04:21.67 to win the silver in the men’s 1000m. He outpaddled third placer Marjuki of Indonesia who ended the race with a record of 04:24.21.</p>

<p>The Philippine canoe-kayak team struck gold on the second day of competitions here in Malawaan Park on Saturday.</p>

The Philippine canoe-kayak team struck gold on the second day of competitions here in Malawaan Park on Saturday.

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SEA Games: Macaranas paddles way to gold medal win in canoe-kayak

Dennis Gasgonia,

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Published Dec 07, 2019 11:34 AM PHT

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Updated Dec 07, 2019 02:35 PM PHT

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