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SPORTS
Chiara looks
to SEA Games
STRATHFIELD equestrian Chiara Amor may
represent the Philippines at the 28th South
East Asian Games in June next year.
By Marilie Bomediano
CHIARA, show-jumping
champion at 16 and a student
at Strathfield’s Santa Sabina College, looks forward to
winning a medal at the Games
in Singapore and then making
a run for a spot in the Philippines’ 2016 Olympic Games
team in Rio, Brazil.
Her coach Mikaela ‘Mikee’
Cojuangco-Jaworski, who has
charted Chiara’s success as a
show-jumper, said diligent
training has been bearing
championship results lately.
At the Concourse de Saut
International – Young Riders-Borrowed Horses in Singapore in March, Chiara
bagged two gold medals: one
for the CSIY-B friendship
and another for the CSIY-B
individual show-jumping
with a time of 55.97s ~
0.2s faster than Singapore’s Nicola Hammond.
She beat 17 top riders
from the Asean region, including some who had recently won medals or placed
at the major Asian region
events.
Chiara developed an attack
of nerves when her mount
Percy twisted its legs away
from the third fence.
“I was really nervous going
through,” she said.
“But I tried to remember to
breathe a bit, to get along with
the horse, and to relax, the
best thing I have ever learned
from my coach-mentor who
has known me since I was 10.
I consider her as my adoptive
mother.”
THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
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