{"id":21196,"date":"2017-09-20T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=21196"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T06:24:29","slug":"arthus-bucay-baggs-first-paralympics-medal-for-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/arthus-bucay-baggs-first-paralympics-medal-for-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthus Bucay Bags First Paralympics Medal for the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipino Paralympics athlete who overcame his condition and reinvented himself as a strong adventurer has now set his sights on a bigger challenge, after bagging Philippines\u2019 first medal in the ASEAN Para Games held at the Velodrome Nasional Malaysia in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21197\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/14915624_1157578060977267_2537016564497853828_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/14915624_1157578060977267_2537016564497853828_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/14915624_1157578060977267_2537016564497853828_n-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE Facebook<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Arthus Bucay, a 37-year old Paralympics athlete defeated the odds by placing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the men\u2019s kilometer event of track cycling, giving the Philippines its very first medal for the 2017 ASEAN Para Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21198\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/DJ5kAUUVAAAjSj3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE\u00a0Twitter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bucay has been cycling for a couple of years but met an accident in 2013 which required an operation that left him with unproportioned legs. Placing second, however, marked Bucay\u2019s second win, after winning the bronze medal in 2014\u2019s Incheon Asian Para Games.\u00a0During the duration of the said competition, Bucay managed to survive the whole cycle run and was able to finish after 1 hour, 15 minutes and 4.32 seconds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Written By: Patricia Antoinette M. Nacianceno<br \/>\nImage Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arthus.bucay\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KL2017\/status\/909274231661240320\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ffilipinotimes.net%2Fsports%2F2017%2F09%2F18%2Fcyclist-nabs-first-medal-ph-asean-para-games-2017%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.mb.com.ph\/2017\/09\/18\/bucay-gives-ph-first-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manila Bulletin<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthus Bucay, a 37-year old Paralympics athlete defeated the odds by placing 2nd at the men\u2019s kilometer event of track cycling, giving the Philippines its very first medal for the 2017 ASEAN Para Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3945,3944,3947,3946],"class_list":["post-21196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-2017-asian-para-games","tag-arthus-bucay","tag-first-ph-medal","tag-paralympics"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/DJ5kAUUVAAAjSj3-e1505889748140.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21248,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21196\/revisions\/21248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}