page_title: Marestella Sunang
hierarchical_section_title: Marestella Sunang
caption_attribution_description: English: President Rodrigo Duterte with the Philippine delegation to the 2016 Summer Olympics. The official description is as follows: “ President Rodrigo R. Duterte as well as athletes and coaches who will represent the country in Rio Olympics do the fist gesture as they pose during the Send-off Ceremony for the Philippines' delegation to the Rio Olympics 2016 at the Rizal Hall of the Malacañan Palace on Monday, July 18, 2016. KING RODRIGUEZ/PPD ”
context_page_description: Marestella Sunang is a Filipino long jumper.
  Torres finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships. 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 Games in Palembang, is currently the Southeast Asian Games Record.
  Torres finished 22nd of 32 at the 2012 London Olympic Games, failing to advance to the final.
  On April 7, 2016, Torres, who came from maternity, won the gold medal in the women's long jump event of the 2016 Ayala-PATAFA Philippine National Open Invitationals held at the Philsports Arena. Torres registered a 6.60 m jump in her 5th attempt, falling 10 centimeters short from the Olympic qualifying standard.
  On May 2016, the International Association of Athletics Federations formally accepted the nomination made by the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association for the universality slot of Torres in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
context_section_description: Marestella Sunang (née Torres; born 20 February 1981) is a Filipino long jumper.
  Torres finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships. 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 Games in Palembang, is currently the Southeast Asian Games Record.
  Torres finished 22nd of 32 at the 2012 London Olympic Games, failing to advance to the final.
  On April 7, 2016, Torres, who came from maternity, won the gold medal in the women's long jump event of the 2016 Ayala-PATAFA Philippine National Open Invitationals held at the Philsports Arena. Torres registered a 6.60 m jump in her 5th attempt, falling 10 centimeters short from the Olympic qualifying standard.
  On May 2016, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) formally accepted the nomination made by the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) for the universality slot of Torres in the 2016 Summer Olympics. However, the slot was junked after the inclusion of marathon runner Mary Joy Tabal in the Rio-bound Philippine delegation.
  On July 2016, Torres achieved the Olympic qualifying standard in the Women's Long Jump in the Kazakhstan Open and setting a new national record of 6.72 meters, thus making it into the Rio Olympics. This would be the third straight and the final Olympic appearance for the Filipina long jumper, who is the most senior member of the national contingent.
  She is married to a fellow Filipino athlete, shot putter Eliezer Sunang. She and Sunang have a kid.
caption: Sunang in 2016
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