Marestella Sunang
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| Birth name | Marestella Torres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 20, 1981 San Jose, Negros Oriental | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 157 cm (62 in) (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |
 Philippines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long Jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 6.71 m (2011) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marestella Sunang (née Torres; born 20 February 1981) is a Filipino long jumper.
Torres finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships.[1] She also competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. She also participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2009, she surprisingly won the 2009 Asian Championships with a leap of 6.51 m.
Her personal best jump of 6.71 m, achieved at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Palembang, is currently the Southeast Asian Games Record.
Torres finished 22nd of 32 at the 2012 London Olympic Games, failing to advance to the final.[2]
On April 7, 2016, Torres, who came from maternity, won the gold medal in the women's long jump event of the 2016 Ayala-PATAFA Philippine National Open Invitationals held at the Philsports Arena. Torres registered a 6.60 m jump in her 5th attempt, falling 10 meter short from the Olympic qualifying standard.[3][4]
She is married to a fellow Filipino athlete, shot putter Eliezer Sunang. She and Sunang have a kid.
References
- Marestella Sunang profile at IAAF
- ↑ Asian Championships - GBR Athletics
- ↑ Enzo, Pirie. "Marestella Torres does not qualify for olympic final, with video". pinoyathletics. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ↑ Leyba, Olmin (April 8, 2016). "Marestella flashes vintage form, boosts Rio bid". The Philippine Star. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Torres falls 10cm shy of Rio norm". Philippine Daily Inquirer. April 8, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2016.