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SINGAPORE -- Eric Shawn Cray and Kayla Richardson ran in red, white, and blue, and won 100-meter golds for the Philippines at the Southeast Asian Games.
Cray won in a personal-best 10.25 seconds, two-tenths of a second clear of Boby Yaspi, who edged Indonesia teammate Iswandi for silver in a photo finish. It was a good outing for Cray, who ran an Olympic qualifying time for the 400-meter hurdles last month and was using the sprint to work on his top-end speed.
The 17-year-old Richardson was slow out of the blocks in the subsequent women's race but came home strongly, dipping late to edge Wannakit Tassaporn in a photo-finish, completing a sprint double for Filipino-Americans.
"I feel if you have Filipino blood, if you cherish the traditions of the Philippines ... It's a great honor for me to be able to represent and I'm just happy they allow me to," said Cray, who lived in Olongapo as a child before moving to the United States, where he now trains in Texas. "My mother is a Filipino — I just enjoy being able to represent my country, my mother's country, and it just makes me proud. I hope I can make them proud, too."
Richardson, coming off a track season at high school in California, was born in the U.S. to a Filipino mother, and said her parents
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Hurdler Cray, archers deliver golds as Band Philippines lodgings in expend final stand
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Hurdler Eric Shauwn Cray becomes first Filipino to earn ticket to 2016 Rio Olympics
HURDLER Eric Shauwn Cray became the first Filipino to qualify for the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics after passing the qualifying standard in a meet in Los Angeles.
Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) secretary general Renato Unso said the Fil-American hurdler clocked 49.12 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles two weeks ago, surpassing the qualifying standard of 49.40 seconds.
Unso said they will submit the 26-year-old Cray’s clocking to the International Amateur Athletics Federation (Iaaf) for final verification.
“I-veverify nila ‘yung competition. Legitimate ‘yan,” said Unso.
Patafa president Philip Ella Juico said the athletics community is happy with Cray qualifying outright to the Olympics, ahead of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games next month in Singapore.
“We are deliriously happy that we have a real qualifier because as you know, in the past, swimming and athletics, automatic na ‘yan,” said Juico during the sendoff party for the athletics team held on Thursday at the Marriott Hotel.
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Cray, born in Olongapo City but raised in the United States, will see action in four eve