TWO golds and one silver for Rachel de Weerd for Team Philippines.

De Weerd, one of the many Filipino runners now based in the Netherlands, captured the gold medals in the women’s 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter events in the 22nd Asian Masters Athletics Championships held at the New Clark City Athletics Stadium in Capas, Tarlac on Nov. 8-12.

De Weerd, a native of Ifugao who migrated to the Netherlands in 2001, also pocketed the silver medal in the women’s 4X100m event with Brenda Ramos Zinampan, Maricar Taguinod Gammad and Marissa Reyes Tumpalan.

“I was so nervous because I’m not feeling well before the competition,” said the 49-year-old De Weerd, who moved to the Dutch capital after she got married to her Dutch partner in 2011.

“But now, I’m so thankful that I won not just one but two gold medals and a silver on my first Asian Masters,” added De Weerd.

The Netherlands-based Filipina marathon champion bagged her first gold medal in the 45-49 category of the women’s 5,000-meter race last Nov. 12.

She clocked 21 minutes and 00.28 seconds in the event, edging Tehereh Behkam of Iran who took the silver with a time of 25:34.04 and Sidhu Renu Kaur of India who settled for the bronze in 27:04.88.

The following day, De Weerd bagged her second gold medal in the 10,000m with a time of 42:54.17.

She was way, way ahead of Irina Salykova of Kazakhstan (45:12.07) and Kaur (55:11.87), who won silver and bronze medals, respectively.

De Weerd later joined Brenda Ramos Zinampan, Maricar Taguinod Gammad and Marissa Reyes Tumpalan to power Team Philippines to the silver medal in the 4X100m event behind only Malaysia.

India bagged the bronze medal.

Sharing the limelight was Emerson Obiena, father of the world No. 2 pole vaulter EJ Obiena, who established a new record in men’s pole vault 55-59 category after posting 3.60 meters to also win the gold medal for the country.

Obiena’s brother, Edward, settled for the silver medal with 2.70m, while Panhacharam Jayakumar of Sri Lanka won the bronze with 2.30m.

Overall, the Philippines finished third with 42 gold, 41 silver and 35 bronze medals behind India (70-63-82) and Japan (58-25-18).

Completing the top 10 countries are China (40-32-26), Malaysia (29-41-29), Thailand (29-22-16), Kazakhstan (27-13-8), Sri Lanka (25-34-25), Iran (22-19-12) and Mongolia ( 21-24-31).