FILIPINO pole vault ace Ernest John "EJ" Obiena matched his personal best of 6.0-meter (m) clearance for a silver medal finish in the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary early Sunday, August 27 (Manila time).

Obiena aced the said height, which is also the Asian record, in his second attempt and thus made history of giving the Philippines its first silver in the world meet.

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