More medals from PH gymnastics as De Guzman, Capellan bag silver, 2 bronzes

Kaitlin de Guzman of the Philippines competes in beam event of women’s artistic gymnastics competition of the 29th Southeast Asian Games. She scored 12.3 to clinch the bronze medal. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/SEA GAMES POOL

KUALA LUMPUR — The Philippines hauled a silver and two more bronze medals Wednesday at the close of artistic gymnastics in the 29th Southeast Asian Games here.

Kaitlin de Guzman added a silver in floor exercise and a bronze in balance beam to earlier gold medal in uneven bars to become the most productive in the entire Team Philippines so far.

Reyland Capellan, the floor exercise champion, bagged bronze in the vault, the same output he had two years ago.

All in all, the country harvested two golds, one silver and two bronzes in artistics. The Philippine gymnastics team will compete in rhythmic starting Thursday.

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