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CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebuano weightlifter John Dexter Tabique leads a three-man Philippine squad within the Singapore Weightlifting Competition 2025, which takes place this Sunday, June 15.
Tabique, a bronze medalist within the 2023 Southeast Asian Video games and a varsity standout from the College of Cebu (UC), will compete within the males’s 98-kilogram division. He’s accompanied by his coach, Olympian Ramon Solis.
Becoming a member of him in Singapore are Boholano lifter Dave Pacaldo and Zamboanga’s Elaika Lozada. Pacaldo, a three-time gold medalist within the Non-public Faculties Athletic Affiliation (PRISAA) Nationwide Video games, is at the moment competing within the males’s 65kg class. Lozada will take the platform on Sunday within the ladies’s 77kg division.
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Coach Solis shared that Tabique opted to skip the continuing Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas (SWP) Nationwide Championships in Dumaguete Metropolis to give attention to worldwide publicity. Tabique beforehand received gold throughout the nationwide championships held in Cebu final 12 months.
Final April, Tabique was among the many Cebuano athletes honored throughout the thirty ninth Sportswriters Affiliation of Cebu–San Miguel Brewery (SAC–SMB) Cebu Sports activities Awards. He was acknowledged alongside fellow lifter and two-time Olympian Elreen Ando.
John Dexter Tabique’s class options prime rivals from the area, together with Vietnam’s Toan Nguyen Quoc, Dung Tran Xuan, and Tran Dinh Thang; Singapore’s Lim Kang Yin and Oon Yuen Tzem; Brunei’s Felipe Balik Muhd; Malaysia’s Prasit Jomdhetphichaya and Muhammad Faris Haikal Kamarul; Thailand’s Rungsuriya Yothaphon; and Indonesia’s Carel Julius Hildebrand.
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