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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Iligan climbers top Cebu event
By Patrick C. Costelo
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
They came, they clung and they defied gravity.
Iligan climbers Arjun Actub and Gizelle Lopez reaffirmed their dominance in the Visayas-Mindanao area after successfully defending their titles in the Do or Fly bouldering competition at The Center of Gravity (COG), Baseline Complex Saturday.
Against climbers from Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro and Cebu, Actub made another dominating run in the finals, topping out two of three routes to take his second Men’s Open hardware.
Actub and Lopez last year racked up the Men and Women’s Advanced division championship, respectively, in the Creation bouldering competition during COG climbing gym’s inauguration.
Local bet and Team Informatics’ Mikko Gonzales trailed at second, sending one route and going halfway in another to take the No.2 spot via countback over t330 Haiball’s Wendell Getubig.
In the Women’s Open, Lopez had a tougher time defending her title after finishing just one route in the ultra-tough finals.
However, No.2 finisher Angel Pasculado and No.3 Mavit Liparanon weren’t able to finish a route and only managed to reach the bonus hold to score points.
At fourth to sixth, in that order, were junior climbing phenom Alya Simone Mongaya, CDO’s Marion Jill Amores and Joanna Munsayac.
The Men’s Open elimination had Cebu’s Francis Cezar and Jireh Climaco share the No.1 spot, but both slumped in the finals to settle for the fourth and sixth spots.
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Carlo Chiong, who also made a killing in the eliminations after taking the No.3 spot, clinched the No.5 spot overall after similarly crashing in the finals.
Iloilo’s Jose Cortez finished seventh and Cebu’s John Mark Corpus was eighth.
The event, which marked COG’s first anniversary, was the biggest of its kind in the Visayas and Mindanao area, featuring a mobile wall with murderous degrees of inclination and brand new “Go Big or Go Home” climbing holds.
Bouldering, the purest and most powerful form of climbing, has been gaining popularity in Cebu since COG’s opening.
(July 13, 2005 issue)
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