{"id":1974,"date":"2023-07-21T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gqq.gfl.temporary.site\/website_23b9925e\/ej-obiena-claims-the-second-spot-for-mens-pole-vault-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:27:40","slug":"ej-obiena-claims-the-second-spot-for-mens-pole-vault-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"EJ Obiena Claims The Second Spot For Men\u2019s Pole Vault Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his incredible performance and number of wins in different pole vault competitions worldwide, Filipino athlete Ernest John &#8220;EJ&#8221; Obiena is now the top-two male pole vaulter among all countries.<\/p>\n<p>After setting a record by being the first Filipino to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, Obiena happily shared that he is now in the second spot in the latest pole vault records worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1799\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-221095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-820x1024.jpeg 820w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-768x959.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-80x100.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-696x870.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-1392x1739.jpeg 1392w, https:\/\/pageone.zyndk8.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/worldathletics-1068x1334.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour very own skinny kid from Tondo, alumni of CKSC and UST, is now WORLD NUMBER TWO,\u201d he said in his tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good Morning Philippines \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded<\/p>\n<p>Your very own skinny kid from Tondo, alumni of CKSC and UST, is now WORLD NUMBER TWO\u270c\ufe0f.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who made this possible, and my deepest gratitude to those who went to war so that I could continue this dream. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ak17g66rkb\">pic.twitter.com\/ak17g66rkb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EJ Obiena (@ejobienapv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ejobienapv\/status\/1681800078581993472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back then, the spot was claimed by American Christopher Nilsen, but with the recent records of Obiena, he beat Nilsen\u2019s score of 1428 by four points.<\/p>\n<p>With this milestone, Obiena expressed his gratitude to Filipinos, who showed continuous support in every competition that he participated in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who made this possible, and my deepest gratitude to those who went to war so that I could continue this dream,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>For Obiena, this achievement was not only for him to dedicate but for the whole country, saying how proud he was to raise the flag for every Filipino. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just my accomplishment alone, but everyone\u2019s. [&#8230;] Pilipinas sa pagkakataon na iwagayway ang iyong diwa,\u201d Obiena said. <\/p>\n<p>Just recently, Obiena got the gold medal and set new championship records during the 25th Asian Athletics Championships after finishing a 5.91-meter vault.<\/p>\n<p>In his current position, he is now next to Armand Duplantis of Sweden, who has a current score of 1569 points. <\/p>\n<h6>Photo Credit:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ejobienapv<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino vaulter EJ Obiena added another achievement to his career as he claimed the second spot with the highest scores among other pole vaulters worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","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\/1974","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=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"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=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}