Athlete Andrea Estrella becomes first blind woman to conquer Spartan Trifecta

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00:00A 20-year-old and completely blind athlete, Andrea Estrella, made history at the Spartan

00:05Trifecta World Championships in Greece.

00:08Arian Malyare from Radyo Pilipinas dos Sports tells us more.

00:14Andrea Estrella became the first blind female to conquer the Spartan Trifecta, which consisted

00:20of three different distances, an obstacle race over three days, and emerged as the silver

00:25medalist of the female para category.

00:28Estrella and her coach guide Ron Alcantara clocked 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 14 seconds

00:33in the race that featured the Spartan sprint of 5 kilometers with 20 obstacles first day,

00:39the Spartan super of 10 kilometers with 25 obstacles on day two, and the Spartan beast,

00:45a 21-kilometer event with 30 obstacles that included walls, bucket carry, balance beam,

00:51and monkey bars.

00:52Tamara Jansen of the Netherlands bagged the gold medal as finished the race three hours

00:57ahead of the Filipina.

00:59Estrella, whose participation is supported by the Pilipinas Obstacle Sports Federation,

01:04told RP2 Sports that she is overwhelmed with her silver medal win, which proved that this

01:09ability is not a hindrance to what a person can do and that obstacles are part of life

01:16that needs to cross and finish.

01:18Estrella, who hails from Quezon City, is a college student taking up Bachelor of Elementary

01:23Education, major in Special Education.

01:27Meanwhile, four other Pinoy para-OCR athletes finished the race and had respectable finishes.

01:33Calib Seam Jr. placed fourth, Renzon Embradura was fifth, Mark Joseph Cacidcid was sixth,

01:40while Ken Tumangan ended seventh among 11 male para-competitors.

01:45From RP2 Sports, Arian Malyare, Balitang Tabansa.

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