ICYMI: EJ Obiena scooped up another gold medal on Sunday after clearing 5.77 meters in the 2023 Orlen Cup in Lodz, Poland.
He has now set his sights on the Copernicus Cup in Torun, also in Poland, where he will endure a shorter travel time compared to his trip from Sweden for the Mondo Cup to Lodz.
Obiena was supposed to spearhead the national track and field team in the Asian Indoor on Feb. 10 to 12. The event was also supposed to be a preview of Obiena’s Asian Games gold-medal campaign in Hangzhou, China, in September. The Orlen Cup triumph somehow eased the disappointment since Obiena has been piling up those medals anyway.Three days ago, Obiena managed to tie his personal and national indoor mark of 5.91 meters at the Mondo Classic, a tournament named after Armand Duplantis, in Uppsala, Sweden, following a golden effort at the Perche En Or in Roubaix, France, his first title of the year.