After a two-year wait, Filipino shooter Amparo Acuna reclaimed her spot among Southeast Asia’s best by breaking her own Philippine record in the women’s 50-meter rifle prone event.
The 28-year-old national team mainstay tallied an impressive 617.3 points to capture the silver medal at the 47th Southeast Asia Shooting Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Acuna’s consistent scores of 102.4, 101.5, 103.6, 104.0, 100.9, and 104.9 lifted her past India’s Kusumawardani Diaz, who settled for bronze with 614 points. Thailand’s Plengsaengthong Ratchadaporn clinched the gold medal with 619.1 points.
This latest performance surpasses Acuna’s previous Philippine record of 616.7, set during the 15th Asian Shooting Championships 2023 in Changwon, Korea, where she placed 16th overall in the same event.
The strong showing also helped Acuna rebound from an eighth-place finish in the women’s 50-meter 3-position competition earlier in the Bangkok meet, where she scored 397.5 after tallying 576 in the qualification round.
In that category, Ratchadaporn secured her second gold medal with 455.9, followed by Singapore’s Martina Lindsay Veloso (silver, 455.5) and Chinese Taipei’s Sung Yu Ting (bronze, 443.2).
Acuna last competed internationally at the 16th Asian Shooting Championships in Shymkent, Kazakhstan last August, teaming up with Franchette Quiroz, Enrique Enriquez, and Paul Bryan Rosario. She finished 47th out of 54 in the women’s 10-meter air rifle with a qualification score of 616.7 points.
India’s Elavenil Valarivan, an Olympian, dominated that event with an Asian record score of 253.6 in the final round
