{"id":7824,"date":"2016-09-13T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2016-09-13T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T09:02:46","slug":"filipina-wins-bronze-medal-in-table-tennis-at-rio-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/filipina-wins-bronze-medal-in-table-tennis-at-rio-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipina wins bronze medal in table tennis at Rio Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Philippines bags its first medal in the Rio Paralympics as Josephine Medina wins bronze at the Rio Paralympics in the table tennis event on September 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7825\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/paralympics-e1473744796556.jpg\" alt=\"paralympics\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>JOSEPHINE MEDINA. Table tennis player from PH wins bronze in Paralympics. (Image by Richard Kalocsai via new.ittf.com)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <em>GMA News<\/em>, Medina scored 11-5, 11-6, 11-7 against 2015 European Para Championships silver medalist Julianne Wolf. The 46-year old debuted for the country in 2006, where she placed 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the 2012 London Paralympics. Medina also defeated Norway\u2019s Aida Husic Dahlen during the preliminary rounds, but eventually lost to China\u2019s Jingdian Mao from China.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In an interview with the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), Medina expressed her happiness in her win. \u201cI have been praying to God that one day the Philippines would win a medal; the last time in London, I came so close I finished in fourth place,\u201d said Medina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Being a polio victim, table tennis served as a therapy for Medina. \u201cWhen you play, you must believe and you must give absolutely everything; now the Philippines will not return home without a medal,\u201d added Medina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In a report by <em>Philippine Star<\/em>, the Philippine Team for the Paralympics is composed of five athletes in 4 sports events namely Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta (women\u2019s powerlifting) and Agustin Kitan (men\u2019s powerlifting), Ernie Gawilan (swimming) and Jerrold Pete Mangliwan (wheelchair racing).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaksyon.com\/interaktv\/josephine-medina-bags-table-tennis-bronze-at-rio-paralympics\" target=\"_blank\">Interaksyon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/581127\/sports\/othersports\/phl-s-medina-wins-table-tennis-bronze-in-rio-paralympics\" target=\"_blank\">GMA News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/sports\/2016\/09\/13\/1623361\/josephine-medina-bags-bronze-medal-paralympic-table-tennis\" target=\"_blank\">PhilStar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines bags its first medal in the Rio Paralympics as Josephine Medina wins bronze at the Rio Paralympics in the table tennis event on September 12. &nbsp; JOSEPHINE MEDINA. Table tennis player from PH wins bronze in Paralympics. (Image by Richard Kalocsai via new.ittf.com) &nbsp; According to a report by GMA News, Medina scored 11-5, 11-6, 11-7 against 2015 European Para Championships silver medalist Julianne Wolf. The 46-year old debuted for the country in 2006, where she placed 4th in the 2012 London Paralympics. Medina also defeated Norway\u2019s Aida Husic Dahlen during the preliminary rounds, but eventually lost to China\u2019s Jingdian Mao from China. In an interview with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/paralympics-e1473757345678.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","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=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}