Macau, China - The Philippine Sambo national team won two silver medals from , two-time Asian champion Sydney Sy-Tancontian and Paris Open titlist Aislinn Yap on the first day of the competition of the 2024 Asia-Oceania Sambo Championships at Forum de Macau Stadium.
The six-time World medalists are happy in the runner-up finish after Feruza Khurozova of Uzbekistan scored 1-6 in the women's over+80kgs division.
The 24-year-old Davaoena multi-medalist has returned to the prestigious competition after a year in hiatus in the field after reaching the 2019 New Delhi, India and 2022 Jouneih, Lebanon editions. Sy-Tanctontian’s graduation from the University of Santo Tomas and being busy with the activities of the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) as the chairperson of the FIAS Athletes Commission have been an important point of attention.
Sy-Tancontian was the first to score 1-0 because of the penalty, but saw a way for the Uzbek samboist to turn around to score 1-2 towards the grounds to win the 1-6 advantage.
Yap was beaten by Madina Yerzhan of Kazakhstan to finished in the final of the women's under-80kgs in the silver medal.
The 26-year-old 2024 Judo National double gold medalist won her bronze medal in the 2023 edition in Astana, Kazakhstan in the same category, while hoping to enter the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China in competing in the women's combat sambo in both divisions.
Philippines Sambo Federation Inc. President Paolo Tancontian who despite the impressive performance of the national team from the seven representatives of the country for sports sambo still hope the country can compete more in Asia since most world champions comes from Asia.
"I consider this a good performance from our athletes compared to last year because we improve a lot in terms of medal we obtain, however we still have a lot of room for improvement and everyday is a learning process becuse Asia is considered a world class level and strong really this," said
At the 2025 World Games for combat sports, Tancontian hoped they could get slots for Yap, Marianne Mariano (women's 59kgs), Jomary Torres (woman's 54kgs) and Robin Catalan (men's 58kgs).
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