
The tall, comely Schrijvers, 16, bagged the secondary high jump gold in record fashion – her 1.62m leap shouted the four-year old sign of 1.61m ready by Cordillera’s Marie Felice Ellago in Palawan.
Schrijvers, born in Manila to a Belgian father and a Chinese mother, went for the 19-year-old national juniors mark of 1.64m set by NCR’s Cherry Ann Janeza-Arqueza in the Phl Public Open in Manila by attempting a 1.65m jump but failed in three tries.
The recent St. Stephen graduate actually came close to accomplishing the feat on her second try but the heel of her shoes crazy the measure as she was just about to land on her back to the disappointment of the crowd, which was then growing by the second.
“It hit my foot,” cost all Schrijvers, who also speaks fluent Filipino, could say minutes after the event.
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