CARLO Biado yielded his men’s 9-ball crown yesterday (Saturday in the US) after dropping an 8-11 decision in the 11th World Games to familiar German tormentor Joshua Filler at the Sheraton Birmingham ballroom in Birmingham, Alabama.
With the match tied at 6-all, Biado scratched on a 2-9 combination, enabling Filler to win the rack and advance to the finals of the event that is part of the quadrennial meet for non-Olympic sports.
Filler, who beat Biado 13-10 in the finals of the 2018 world 9-ball tourney in Doha, Qatar, will face Bosnia’s Sanjin Pehlinavovic, an 11-7 winner over Singapore’s Aloysius Yapp in the other semis, in the battle for the gold medal.
The reigning US pool champion and Vietnam Southeast Asian Games gold medalist, Biado will face Yapp for the bronze medal Sunday.
Biado’s compatriot, Vietnam SEA Games double gold medalist Rubilen Amit, lost earlier last Saturday (Friday in Manila) in the quarterfinals 8-9 to Germany’s Veronika Ivanovskaia.
In men’s duathlon, Vietnam SEA Games men’s triathlon champ Fernando Caseres clocked one hour, 53 minutes and 57 seconds to finish 14th overall in the race won by Frenchman Maxime Hueber Moosbrugger, who took the gold medal in 1:47:57 at the Railroad Park in downtown Birmingham.
Kim Mangrobang, who swept the women’s triathlon and duathlon golds in the Vietnam Games, had a traumatic experience in her World Games debut after being disqualified along with 11 others in the women’s duathlon.
