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Cesars reign with SEA Games mints
Filipina football star Malea Cesar expressed joy as her younger sister, Naomi Cesar, secured a gold medal in the women's 800-meter race at the 2025 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
Naomi clinched the gold with a time of 2:10.2, narrowly beating Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Thu Ha by a tenth of a second, while fellow Filipina athlete Bernalyn Bejoy secured the bronze medal.
At 16, Naomi became the youngest Filipino to win a Southeast Asian Games athletics medal.
Malea, 22, helped the country to its first-ever SEAG football crown.
Both sisters achieved historic triumphs, with Naomi winning in athletics and Malea in football.
Malea watched her sister's victory via live broadcast and celebrated emotionally, while Naomi was present to witness the Filipinas' football gold medal win.
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