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Article: Fifteen gold medals set for first day of Southeast Asian Games
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- November 26, 2005
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DENNIS PASSA, AP Sports Writer
AP Worldstream
11-26-2005
Dateline: MANILA, Philippines
Long jumpers, Latin dancers and chess and billiard players will be among those carting off gold medals Sunday after the first full day of competition at the 23rd Southeast Asian Games.
Hours before the symbolic Games torch is lit and the competition is officially opened by Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the Luneta grandstand in downtown Manila, the first of three golds in athletics will be held in the women's long jump.
Filipino Olympian Lerma Gabito is one of the favorites in the long jump at the newly renovated Rizal Memorial athletics stadium, where the women's pole vault and high jump ...