Jeremy Pacatiw’s kickboxing silver wraps up PH’s SEA Games 2023 campaign

PHNOM PENH—Jeremy Pacatiw closed out the Philippine campaign at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games here with a silver medal in kickboxing.

The 27-year-old Pacatiw dropped his gold-medal encounter in the men’s K1 -67kg category against Vietnamese Van Chinh Hoang, 0-3, on Tuesday evening at the Elephant Hall of the Morodok Techo National Stadium.

Claudine Veloso’s victory an hour earlier in the women’s K1 -52kg class was the final gold medal for Filipino athletes, who will go home with 58 gold, 87 silver and 115 bronze medals at fifth behind overall champion Vietnam’s harvest of 136 golds, 104 silvers and 114 bronzes.

Thailand wound up a distant second with 108 gold, 94 silver a…

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