| Juancho Miguel Besana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Juancho Miguel Eserio Besana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regions represented | National Capital Region | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 18, 2003 Pasig, Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2022–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Juancho Miguel Eserio Besana (born August 18, 2003) is a Filipino artistic gymnast. He is the 2023 SEA Games champion on vault as well as the 2024 Pacific Rim vault bronze medalist.
Besana was born in Pasig in 2003 to mother Maru Eserio and father Junn Besana. [1] He has been friends with fellow Filipino gymnasts Carlos Yulo and John Ivan Cruz since childhood. [2]
Besana competed at the postponed 2021 Southeast Asian Games where he helped the Philippines win silver as a team. [3] Individually he won bronze on vault behind compatriot Carlos Yulo and Tikumporn Surintornta of Thailand. [4] At the 2022 Asian Championships Besana finished twenty-third in the all-around and helped the Philippines finish ninth as a team. [5]
In early 2023 Besana competed at the Cottbus World Cup where he finished eighth on vault. [6] At the 2023 Southeast Asian Games Besana once again helped the Philippines win silver. Individually he won gold on vault. [7] [8] In June Besana competed at the 2023 Asian Championships where he helped the Philippines finish seventh as a team and individually he finished twenty-third in the all-around and qualified to the vault final. During the vault final he finished eighth. [9]
Although Besana had qualified as an individual to compete at the 2023 World Championships, [10] he opted instead to compete at the postponed 2022 Asian Games. [2] While there he only competed on vault where he finished tenth during qualifications and was the second reserve for the final. [11]
Besana competed at the Doha World Cup but finished nineteenth on vault during qualifications and did not advance to the final. In April he competed at the 2024 Pacific Rim Championships. While there he helped the Philippines finish sixth as a team and individually he finished eighth in the all-around and qualified to the floor exercise, pommel horse, vault, and horizontal bar event finals. [12] During event finals he won bronze on vault. [13]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2022 | Southeast Asian Games |  | 9 |  | 5 | 4 | |||
| Asian Championships | 9 | 23 | |||||||
| 2023 | Cottbus World Cup | 8 | |||||||
| Southeast Asian Games | | 6 |  | 4 | |||||
| Asian Championships | 7 | 23 | 8 | ||||||
| Asian Games | R2 | ||||||||
| 2024 | |||||||||
| Asian Championships | 6 | 14 | 4 | ||||||
| Pacific Rim Championships | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | | 8 |
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