A grateful and emotional EJ Obiena stays locked in to bigger things ahead in his pole vault career after breaking the 6-meter barrier in Norway and setting a new Asian record.
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“It all started with a dream to jump over 5m and set the National Record to now be the 24th person all-time to go over the 6m barrier and the first ever Asian/Filipino,” he wrote on Sunday, June 11. However, Obiena knows there is still a very long road ahead, especially with the 2024 Paris Olympics getting ever closer.
Obiena etched his name in the history books after a sensational run in Norway on Saturday, June 10, when he needed just a single try to clear 5.76m, 5.82m, 5.94m, and finally, the 6m threshold.
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