The medals just keep stacking up for the Cobra-Philippine Dragon Boat Federation team at the 10th World Dragon Boat Racing Championships in Tampa Bay, Florida.
The Filipino rowers added a gold medal in the premiere mixed small boat competition and a silver medal in the All-Comers premiere mixed small boat competition in the 500m events on Saturday, bringing their total haul to 4 golds and 2 silvers.
Despite lack of government support for the trip because of a dispute between the PDBF and the Philippine Olympic Committee, the team has now won medals in all events they have entered.
They easily overtook their rivals from the preliminaries all the way to the final round clocking in at 02.36.119 in the 500m mixed small boat competition.
Trinidad and Tobago (02:38.809) settled for silver. Rounding up the top 3 were the paddlers from Hungary (02:39.635), who took home the bronze.
Meanwhile, in the 500m all-comers competition, the Filipino rowers settled for a silver medal, finishing by about two seconds behind Germany. Macau brought home the bronze.
The Cobra PDBF Team will have a crack at a possible 5th gold medal in the final day of the World Championships Sunday afternoon (early Monday morning Manila time).
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