THEY rolled, they pulled and they grappled but in the end, the pain and the grimaces were turned into smiles as the Philippine team overcame the opposition and walked away with three golds in the second day of the wrestling freestyle competition in the 23rd Southeast Asian Games at the San Andres gym.

Christine Villanueva earned the first gold for the locals at the expense of Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Thiu in the 51 kilograms division.

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