PH swimmers Luke Gebbie, Remedy Rule qualify for Tokyo Olympics
The Philippines now has 19 athletes set to seeaction in the Tokyo Olympics.
National team swimmers Luke Gebbie and Remedy Rule were the latest Filipinos to book a slot in the Summer Games through the universality places allocated to the Philippines.
Gebbie and Rule will now become the Philippines' 18th and 19th representatives for the quadrennial meet.
They will join other Olympian in EJ Obiena (pole vault), Carlos Yulo (gymnastics), Hidilyn Diaz and Elreen Ando (weightlifting), Eumir Marcial, Irish Magno, Carlo Paalam and Nesthy Petecio (boxing).
Completing the Philippine contingent are Cris Nievarez (rowing), Kurt Barbosa (taekwondo), Margielyn Didal (skateboarding), Jayson Valdez (shooting), Kiyomi Watanabe (judo), Kristina Knott (track and field), Juvic Pagunsan, Yuka Saso and Bianca Pagdanganan (golf).
The 24-year-old Gebbie nailed a silver and bronze medal during the 2019 Southeast Asian Games while Rule copped two silvers and two bronzes.
The swimming event in the Olympics is slated from July 24 to August 1 at the Olympics Aquatics Centre.
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA News