Foy-os leads Palaro products for wrestling

Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) bet Henry Foy-os is now being recruited by the Wrestling Association of the Philippines (WAP) as a potential candidate for the national training pool.

Foy-os, the younger brother of national team mainstay and 2013 Philippine National Games 55-kilogram gold medalist Minalyn, was among the wrestlers that stood out when wrestling made its debut in the recently concluded 2014 Palarong Pambansa in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

Foy-os is a fresh high school graduate making him ineligible for the 2015 Palaro, with the host province set to be named in October this year. His gold in Greco-Roman’s 54-kg.division is part of CAR’s nine-medal haul—three gold, two silvers, and four bronzes.

CAR and Region XI (Davao) emerged as the top teams in wrestling with the latter collecting three gold medals all in the girls’ division to go with three silvers and one bronze.

David Caoli (boy’s 50kg.) and Jefferson Ignas (boys’ 42 kg.) were CAR’s other gold medalists in the annual grassroots development program for elementary and high school students.

Arselyn Battatung and Lovelyn Bandao were the silver medal winners in the girls’ 40 and 44 kgs., respectively, while John Mar Pat-angay (boys’ 46 kg.) and Anthony Tenollar (boys’ 58 kg.), and Bless Napiloy (girls’ 52 kg.) and Clarizza Mae Hagitan (girls’ 56 kg) were the bronze medalists.

Sevilla said wrestling’s debut in the Palarong Pambansa is only the start for WAP in looking for fresh talents from schools, local government units (LGU), and club teams.

“With all our available resources and in partnership with the sports authorities concerned, we shall support and promote wrestling on a nationwide scale. As much as possible, we will provide more training to their coaches, and hopefully give them more wrestling mats to train on,” said Sevilla.

“WAP’s next target this year is the Batang Pinoy where we expect some of the Palarong Pambansa wrestlers, those 15 years old and below, to join. But this time they will be representing their respective LGUs per Batang Pinoy policy.”

Sevilla said that they are expecting all 17 regions will be able to field wrestling teams in both the elementary and high school divisions in next year’s Palarong Pambansa.

He added that WAP plans to expose Foy-os and the other new talents they discovered in the Palaro to a higher level of training with the annual Southeast Asian Cadet and Junior Wrestling Championship as their first foray into an international tournament.

“We look forward to the future of our top Palarong Pambansa wrestlers being part of the national team. WAP is very happy with the performance of these young athletes in their wrestling debut in the Palarong Pambansa,” said Sevilla.

“We see a bright future ahead for Philippine wrestling. We can expect some of them to qualify in the 2018 and 2022 Youth Olympic Games and who knows the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.”

WAP also plans to follow the standard rules of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (Fila) in the 2015 Palaro, where they will also double the gold, silver, and bronze medals at stake to 20, 20 and 40

Wrestling was held in the school-age (13 to 15 years old) and cadets (16 to 17 years old) in the high school division and were divided into five weight classes each into the boys’ (42, 46, 50, 54, and 58 kilograms) and girls’ (40, 44, 48, 52 and 56 kgs.). Separate exhibition matches in the 42 and 60 kgs and open weight categories were also held in the boys’ weight category.

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