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\n Ernest John ‘EJ’ Obiena AFP FILE PHOTO\n <\/p>\n
Menno Vloon of the Netherlands placed third and claimed the bronze medal with a 5.70m clearance.<\/p>\n
Obiena tried to surpass the 5.83m height but missed all three attempts.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Brick by brick, we build,” wrote Obiena in a Facebook post that included a video of his 5.78m clearance.<\/p>\n “Season\u2019s best of 5.78m and a gold here in Istaf Indoor. Thanks for having me Berlin.”<\/p>\n This is Obiena’s third gold medal and fifth podium finish of the season.<\/p>\n The two-time Olympian started his season with a bronze finish at the Istaf Indoor Dusseldorf on January 24.<\/p>\n Obiena then snared a gold medal at the International Springer-Meeting in Cottbus, sharing the honor with Menno Vloon on Jan. 29.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old followed with another gold at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tianjin on February 7.<\/p>\n Obiena claimed a bronze at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Feb. 8 before his Istaf Indoor Berlin gold.<\/p>\n Obiena brought some Filipino culture to Berlin.\u2028<\/p>\n As “Bagsakan” by Parokya ni Edgar blasted through Berlin, Obiena, 30, flew past his winning height.<\/p>\n \u2028\u201cAnd yes, Parokya ni Edgar in Berlin. Normalizing OPM as a hype song,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILIPINO pole vault ace Ernest John ‘EJ’ Obiena ruled the Istaf Indoor meet at the Uber Arena in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[6198,112,190,19182,216,20684,20683,20510],"class_list":["post-35561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-bags","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-gold","tag-in","tag-indoor","tag-istaf","tag-obiena"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116195465961951821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}