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Marestella Torres-Sunang
Filipino long jumper (born 1981)
In this Philippine name for married women, the birth middle name or maternal family name is unknown, the birth surname or paternal family name is Torres, and the marital name is Sunang.
Marestella Torres-Sunang (born February 20, 1981) is a Filipinolong jumper.
Career
Torres-Sunang started long jumping in 1994 in Negros Oriental.
Philippines's Marestella Torres competes in the final of the women's long jump Saturday, Dec. 8, , at the 24th Southeast Asian Games.
Her talent was recognized by her teachers but she often trained on a limited budget, doing jumps on rice husks rather than a proper sand pit.[1]
Torres-Sunang finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships.[2] She also competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final.
She also participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2009, she surprisingly won the 2009 Asian Championships with a leap of 6.51 m.
Her personal best jump of 6.71 m, achieved at the 2011 Southeast Asian