Marestella Torres-Sunang
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Birth name | Marestella Torres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Filipino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | San Jose, Negros Oriental | February 20, 1981||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) (1.57 m) (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 6.72 m (2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marestella Torres-Sunang (born February 20, 1981) is a Filipino long jumper.
Career
[edit]Torres-Sunang started long jumping in 1994 in Negros Oriental. Her talent was recognized by her teachers but she often trained on a limited budget, doing jumps on rice husks rather than a proper sand pit.[1]
Torres-Sunang finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships.[2] She also competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. She also participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2009, she surprisingly won the 2009 Asian Championships with a leap of 6.51 m.
Her personal best jump of 6.71 m, achieved at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Palembang, is currently the Southeast Asian Games Record.
Torres-Sunang finished 22nd of 32 at the 2012 London Olympic Games, failing to advance to the final.[citation needed]
On April 7, 2016, Torres-Sunang, who came from maternity with the help of her coach and sponsor James Michael Lafferty and nutritionist-wife Carol Lafferty, won the gold medal in the women's long jump event of the 2016 Ayala-PATAFA Philippine National Open Invitationals held at the Philsports Arena. She registered a 6.60 m jump in her 5th attempt, falling 10 centimeters short from the Olympic qualifying standard.[3][4]
In May 2016, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) formally accepted the nomination made by the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) for the universality slot of Torres-Sunang in the 2016 Summer Olympics.[5] However, the slot was junked after the inclusion of marathon runner Mary Joy Tabal in the Rio-bound Philippine delegation.[6]
In July 2016, Torres-Sunang achieved the Olympic qualifying standard in the Women's Long Jump in the Kazakhstan Open and setting a new national record of 6.72 meters, thus making it into the Rio Olympics. This would be the third straight and the final Olympic appearance for the Filipina long jumper, who is the most senior member of the national contingent.[7][8]
Personal life
[edit]She is married to a fellow Filipino athlete, shot putter Eliezer Sunang with who she has a son.[9]
Personal bests
[edit](Outdoor)
- Long Jump : 6.72 m (+0.8 m/s) – Kazakhstan Open , Almaty, Kazakhstan, 4 July 2016
- Triple Jump : 12.67 m – Manila, Philippines, 3 June 2004
- 100 Meters: 12.44 – 2007 World Championships, Osaka, Japan. 26 August 2007
(Indoor)
- Long Jump : 6.06 m – Aspire Dome, Doha, 13 March 2010
International competitions
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Reyes, Lai S. (December 7, 2019). "Three-time olympian Marestella Sunang is still a milk drinker at 40". The Philippine Star. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
- ^ Asian Championships - GBR Athletics
- ^ Leyba, Olmin (April 8, 2016). "Marestella flashes vintage form, boosts Rio bid". The Philippine Star. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
- ^ "Torres falls 10cm shy of Rio norm". Philippine Daily Inquirer. April 8, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
- ^ Co, Adrian Stewart (May 6, 2016). "Long-jumper Torres–Sunang gains Olympics seat". Panay News. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
- ^ David, Jean Russel V. (June 17, 2016). "Marathoner Tabal officially Rio-bound". Manila Times. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- ^ Terrado, Reuben (July 4, 2016). "Marestella Torres punches ticket to Rio by surpassing Olympic standard in last-ditch attempt". Sports Interactive Network Philippines. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- ^ "Marestella Torres-Sunang vows to make third Olympics her best". Rappler. August 1, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
- ^ Terrado, Reuben (April 8, 2016). "Husband sets aside own athletic career to help Marestella Torres book ticket to Rio". Sports Interactive Network Philippines. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
External links
[edit]External links
[edit]- 1981 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Negros Oriental
- Filipino female long jumpers
- Olympic track and field athletes for the Philippines
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games competitors for the Philippines
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
- University Athletic Association of the Philippines players
- SEA Games medalists in athletics
- SEA Games gold medalists for the Philippines
- SEA Games bronze medalists for the Philippines
- Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2009 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2011 SEA Games
- Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games
- Asian Athletics Championships winners