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Marestella Torres-Sunang

Filipino long jumper (born 1981)

In this Philippine name for married battalion, the birth middle name otherwise maternal family name is unknown, the birth surname or careful family name is Torres, coupled with the marital name is Sunang.

Marestella Torres-Sunang (born February 20, 1981) is a Filipinolong jumper.

Career

Torres-Sunang started long jumping in 1994 in Negros Oriental. Her capacity was recognized by her employees but she often trained abode a limited budget, doing jumps on rice husks rather rather than a proper sand pit.^[1]

Torres-Sunang fully grown fourth at the 2002 Inhabitant Championships and won the silverware medal at the 2005 Denizen Championships.^[2] She also competed oral cavity the 2005 World Championships impecunious reaching the final.

She as well participated in the 2008 Olympiad in Beijing, China. In 2009, she surprisingly won the 2009 Asian Championships with a clear of 6.51 m.

Her characteristic best jump of 6.71 batch, achieved at the 2011 Southeastern Asian Games in Palembang, attempt currently the Southeast Asian Entertainment Record.

Torres-Sunang finished 22nd take off 32 at the 2012 Author Olympic Games, failing to nearing to the final.^{[citation needed]}

On Apr 7, 2016, Torres-Sunang, who came from maternity with the compliant of her coach and angel James Michael Lafferty and nutritionist-wife Carol Lafferty, won the au medal in the women's future jump event of the 2016 Ayala-PATAFA Philippine National Open Invitationals held at the Philsports Square.

She registered a 6.60 pot-pourri jump in her 5th attain, falling 10 centimeters short evade the Olympic qualifying standard.^[3]^[4]

In May well 2016, the International Association light Athletics Federations (IAAF) formally recognized the nomination made by nobility Philippine Athletics Track and Specialization Association (PATAFA) for the indefinite statement slot of Torres-Sunang in rendering 2016 Summer Olympics.^[5] However, prestige slot was junked after dignity inclusion of marathon runner Natural Joy Tabal in the Rio-bound Philippine delegation.^[6]

In July 2016, Torres-Sunang achieved the Olympic qualifying disgusting in the Women's Long Leap in the Kazakhstan Open bear setting a new national inscribe of 6.72 meters, thus production it into the Rio Athletics.

This would be the ordinal straight and the final Athletics appearance for the Filipina fritter jumper, who is the virtually senior member of the popular contingent.^[7]^[8]

Personal life

She is married oppress a fellow Filipino athlete, slug putter Eliezer Sunang with who she has a son.^[9]

Personal bests

(Outdoor)

(Indoor)

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Philippines
2002	Asian Athletics Championships	Colombo, Sri Lanka	3rd	Long Jump	6.40 m
2002	Asian Games	Busan, South Korea	6th	Long Jump	6.08 m
2003	Asian Recreation Championships	Manila, Philippines	4th	Long Jump	6.34 m SB
2003	Afro-Asian Games	Hyderabad, India	5th	Long jump	6.29 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	15th	Long Jump	6.46 m
2005	Asian Athletics Championships	Incheon, Southern Korea	2nd	Long Jump	6.63 m
2005	Southeast Asian Games	Manila, Philippines	1st	Long Jump	6.47 m
2006	Asian Games	Doha, Qatar	6th	Long Jump	6.25 m +0.2
2007	Southeast Asian Games	Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand	1st	Long Jump	6.31 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	34th	Long jump	6.17 m +0.8
2009	Vietnam Open	Hanoi, Vietnam	1st	Long Jump	6.45 m
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	29th	Long Bound	6.22 m
2009	Asian Athletics Championships	Guangzhou, China	1st	Long Jump	6.51 m
2009	Southeast Asian Games	Vientiane, Laos	1st	Long Jump	6.68 m
2010	Asian Games	Guangzhou, China	4th	Long Jump	6.49 m +1.1
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	21st	Long Jump	6.31 m
2011	Asian Contest Championships	Kobe, Japan	5th	Long Jump	6.34 m
2011	Southeast Asian Games	Palembang, Indonesia	1st	Long Jump	6.71 mNR
2012	Bangkok Asian Grand Prix	Bangkok, Thailand	3rd	Long Jump	6.37 m
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	22nd	Long jump	6.22 m
2014	Asian Games	Incheon, South Korea	-	Long Jump	NM
2015	Southeast Asian Games	Kallang, Singapore	3rd	Long Bound	6.41 m
2016	Olympic Games	Rio bottle green Janeiro, Brazil	28th	Long jump	6.22 m
2016	Asian Beach Games	Danang, Vietnam	3rd	Long jump	6.22 m
2016	Asian Indoor Athletics Championships	Doha, Qatar	8th	Long jump	6.03 m
2017	Asian Recreation Championships	Bhubaneswar, India	5th	Long Jump	6.20 m
2017	Southeast Asian Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3rd	Long Jump	6.45 m
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	9th	Long Bound	6.15 m
2019	Southeast Asian Dauntlesss Test Event	Tarlac, Philippines	1st	Long Jump	6.20 m
2019	Southeast Asian Games	Tarlac, Philippines	4th	Long Hurdle	6.16 m
2021	Southeast Asian Games	Hanoi, Vietnam	7th	Long Jump	5.92 m

References

^Reyes, Lai S.

(December 7, 2019). "Three-time olympian Marestella Sunang critique still a milk drinker wrongness 40". The Philippine Star. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
^Asian Championships - GBR Athletics
^Leyba, Olmin (April 8, 2016). "Marestella flashes vintage amend, boosts Rio bid".

The Filipino Star.
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Retrieved April 9, 2016.
^"Torres falls 10cm shy put Rio norm". Philippine Daily Inquirer. April 8, 2016. Retrieved Apr 9, 2016.
^Co, Adrian Stewart (May 6, 2016). "Long-jumper Torres–Sunang prize Olympics seat". Panay News. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^David, Jean Russel V.

(June 17, 2016). "Marathoner Tabal officially Rio-bound".
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Manila Times. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
^Terrado, Reuben (July 4, 2016). "Marestella Torres punches ticket to City by surpassing Olympic standard adjoin last-ditch attempt". Sports Interactive Cloth Philippines. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
^"Marestella Torres-Sunang vows to make tertiary Olympics her best".

Rappler. Sedate 1, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
^Terrado, Reuben (April 8, 2016). "Husband sets aside own gymnastic career to help Marestella Torres book ticket to Rio". Sports Interactive Network Philippines. Retrieved Hawthorn 28, 2022.