{"id":1884,"date":"2023-07-04T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gqq.gfl.temporary.site\/website_23b9925e\/ej-obiena-becomes-the-first-filipino-qualified-for-the-paris-olympics\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:22:27","slug":"ej-obiena-becomes-the-first-filipino-qualified-for-the-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"EJ Obiena Becomes The First Filipino Qualified For The Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino pole vaulter Ernest John &#8220;EJ&#8221; Obiena achieved a remarkable feat as he became the first Filipino athlete to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which will take place in France.<\/p>\n<p>Obiena earned his qualification to the summer games when he cleared a stunning 5.82 meters on his second attempt in the men\u2019s pole vault competition of the Bauhaus Galan leg of the Diamond League held last July 2.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEJObiena%2Fvideos%2F122304910878120%2F&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With this successful stunt, Obiena clinched his silver medal in his first event for qualifying. This gave him a spot behind the champion, Mondo Duplantis, who cleared 6.05 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Following this record, Obiena disclosed on social media that he still has a lot to learn as an athlete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue the work as we still have lots to do. Made some rookie mistakes yesterday. It just shows [that] I am still a student of the game,\u201d he said in his Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Diamond League, Obiena took home the bronze medal in the Ostrava Golden Spike 2023 men\u2019s pole vault competition held in the Czech Republic when he finished with a 5.90-meter jump.<\/p>\n<h6><credit>Photo Credit:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EJObiena\/<\/credit> <\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EJObiena\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/psc.gov.ph<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino pole vault athlete EJ Obiena brings another recognition to the country, becoming the first Filipino athlete to qualify for the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}