GRATIL, JOSEPH P

BEED 2A
P. E.
INSTRUCTOR: MRS. LEA A. GAMBA

Activity No. 1
 Explore the internet and search famous Filipino athletes/personalities who gain fame
because of their achievements in athletics. Please specify the events they are in.
 Include brief introduction of their personal info and their achievements.

1. Rodolfo Tan Cardoso (Chess)

Claim to fame: The Chess

Boy Wonder Who Became
the First Asian
International Master
Rodolfo Tan Cardoso
learned to play chess at age
10 by watching a match in a
barbershop in Alaminos,
Pangasinan. At 18, he
became the Pangasinan
chess champion and went to
Manila to compete in the
1st National Junior Chess Championship, which he topped.

In 1956, the chess boy wonder was a member of the 4-man Philippine team at the XII
Moscow Chess Olympiad. To the amazement of the most elite woodpushers of the
world, Cardoso placed second to Russia’s famed David Bronstein, with an average of
76. 5 percent in 17 games in his first-ever international tournament. Cardoso gained
worldwide notice and was described by Russian chess experts as having “fine,
natural gifts.”

The next year, Cardoso represented the Philippines in the World Junior Chess
Tournament in Toronto and placed 5th, and was awarded the Norman Vincent
Brilliancy trophy. In 1958, he was back at the Olympiad in Munich, where the
Philippine team copped runner-up honors in the second consolation group finals.

The young chess wiz was named Chess Player of the Year for 3 consecutive years—
1956, 1957, 1958—by the Philippine Sportswriters Association. It was his
exceptional plays in Moscow that earned for Cardoso the International Chess
Master, given by the Federacion International de Echecs (FIDE), the first Asian
to gain that honor. Cardoso remained active in the sports for over 3 decades,
especially when Eugene Torre rose to become the 1st Asian Grandmaster, which
rekindled interest in the sports.

 
2. Josephine de la Viña (Athletics)

Claim to fame: The Country’s Greatest Thrower

With A Still-Unbroken 44-Year-Old Discus
Record.

Born on April 20, 1946, the country’s greatest discus

thrower was the eldest child of American-Mexican
Norman and Carolina de la Viña of Cebu.

Her first sport was softball, which she played as a

student of Labangon Elementary School. But her
affair with the Grecian discus began when she
enrolled at the Cebu Institute of Technology High
School. Her natural flair for athletics—specifically
the throwing events of discus, javelin and shot put—
caught the eye of Deans Amancio Alcordo and Vicente Tigas, who put her on
scholarship.

The hefty thrower, who would grow to an intimidating height of 6 feet, earned a
Bronze at her first ever international competition–the 1st Asian Track and Field
Championship in Tokyo–with a heave of 37.39 meters. An Olympian at age 18, she
would improve her throw to 42.27 meters at the Tokyo Games in 1964. De la Viña got
even better when she joined the 1965 National Open Championships in Manila,
registering a remarkable 48.38 meters.

The next year, De La Viña was the proud flag bearer at the 5th Asian Games in
Bangkok. Competing against favored Japanese amazons, “Big Jo” held her own and
threw the discus to an Asian record-shattering 47.58 meters (156 ft. 1 ¼ inches)—
which was not even her best throw–to give the Philippines its first Gold. She had been
averaging 162 feet in practices, which would have been enough to place her among
the top 6 in the world Olympics.

The civil engineering student would go on to participate in two more Olympic quests
in Mexico (1968) and Munich (1972).  It was while training in the U.S. that Big Jo set
a personal best and a new record that would—to this day—remain unsurpassed.  On
October 7, 1971, at an athletics meet in Bakersfield, U.S.A., she threw the discus
to an astounding 54.71 meters (184.37 feet). No other Filipina thrower has come
near to this record; in fact, the second-best throw also belongs to De La Viña at
53.92 meters, achieved during the qualifying rounds of the Munich Olympics.

For perspective, Dorie Cortejo’s 45.26 effort at the Kuala Lumpur Games is over 9
meters behind De La Viña’s best. “Big Jo” passed away on November 4, 2011,
leaving behind an unbroken record that is expected to endure for many more years, a
reminder of our golden moments in world athletics.

 
3. Rodrigo Del Rosario (Weightlifting)

Claim to fame: The Lifter

Who Set An Olympic
Mark.

Rodrigo Del Rosario was a 3-

time Olympian from
Zambales, starting with the
1948 London Olympics
where he placed 5th.

At the 1952 Helsinki

Olympics, he came closest to
winning a weightlifting
medal when 110 lbs. Rodrigo
del Rosario placed fourth in
his featherweight division. He pressed 231 ¼ lbs. which was declared an Olympic
Mark, surpassing the previous record of Jafar Salmasi. This also equaled that year’s
world mark. His combined lifts totaled 699 ½ lbs. (203 ¾ lbs. in the snatch, and 264
½ lbs. in the jerk), good for fourth place.

Del Rosario may have lost the Bronze by a whisker, but the record he set for the
bench press remains the first and only Olympic record set by a Filipino, which
caught the attention of international lifters.

After his competitive years were over, Del Rosario became a trainer of young
weightlifters and was the coach of the 1968 Philippine Weightlifting Team to the
Mexico Olympics. A nephew who was in that team would eventually win a world title
— Salvador Del Rosario.

4. Hedy Garcia (Swimming)

Claim to fame: The Teener Who

Swam Across the Laguna Lake

The day after Christmas in 1965, a

long-distance swimming
competition was organized by the
Nonino Swimming Club of Laguna, involving crossing the Laguna Lake–a distance of
about 18 kilometers.

The local challenge was reminiscent of the English Channel swim contest where
athletes swam across the Channel unaided by an escort. The event attracted 22
participants—from former Olympians to a 10-year-old boy swimmer.

First to make it to the finish line after five hours and five minutes was Loreto Garcia,
a UAAP swimmer from Far Eastern University. But what caught the crowd’s
attention was the second placer—15-year-old high school girl,  Hedvig “Hedy”
Garcia, who timed in at 5 hours, 40 minutes and 8 seconds, way ahead of former
Olympians Bana Sailani, who failed to finish, and Rolando Landrito.

Hedy, who stands only 5 feet 2.5 inches tall, was an amateur swimmer from FEU. She
later joined the Philippine Swimming Team that competed in the Mexico Olympics 3
years later. The talented swimmer swam in four events: 100 m. free (7th in her heat),
200 m. breaststroke (4th), and both the 200 m. (3rd)  and 400 m. individual medley
(7th).

5. Lolita Lagrosas (Athletics)

Claim to fame: The Philippines’ All-Around

Jumping Queen

Before Elma Muros, no other female athlete was

as accomplished as Lolita R. Lagrosas whose track
career spanned over two decades, involving three
sports disciplines—High Jump, Broad Jump
(now Long Jump) and Pentathlon.

Born in Naawan, Misamis Oriental on August 24,

1938, her versatile athletic skills in provincial
meets—she was an excellent jumper, hurdler,
sprinter, and thrower– paved the way for her
relocation to Manila, where Far Eastern University
gave her a scholarship.
The five foot four and a half Lagrosas earned three medals in her favorite High Jump
at the 1958 Tokyo Asiad (Silver), 1966 Bangkok (Silver) and 1970 Bangkok
(Bronze). Also in the 1966 and 1970 Bangkok Asiads, she won a pair of Bronzes in
Pentathlon. At the Taipei Dual Meet in 1965, she copped 3 Gold Medals in her 3
events.

Lagrosas was also a two-time Olympian, having competed in the jumping and
pentathlon events at the 1964 Tokyo and 1968 Mexico Olympics.  He personal bests:
High Jump – 1.69 (1966); Long Jump– 5.71 (1970); Pentathlon – 4131 (1968). After
retiring from the sports, Lagrosas became a track and field coach for De La Salle.

6. Gertrudes Lozada (Swimming)

Claim to fame: The Baby of the 1956

Melbourne Olympics

Gertrudes or “Tuding” Lozada, born in

1943, came from the famous swimming
Lozada family which originated swim
schools in the country. Two other sisters,
Corazon and Tessie, would become
world-class swimmers like her. But it was
Tuding who was first to display her skill
in the pool, winning races early in various
age meets in the country.

Soon, she was beating adults at sprints

and middle-distance swimming
races. Tuding surprised everyone when she was named as a member of the
Philippine swimming team for the 1956 Melbourne Olympiad—she was just 13.

When the Philippine Team landed in Melbourne, Tuding became a media sensation.
Newsmen covering the world’s premier sporting event called the young teener, “Baby
of the Olympics.”  She was widely photographed and even athletes from other
countries sought out the Filipina swimming prodigy to make her acquaintance. Tuding
competed in two events—the 100-meter freestyle where she placed last in her heat,
and in the 400-meter free, where she placed 6th.

Two years later, just 15 years old, Tuding competed at the 1958 Asian Games and
won a Silver in her favorite 400-meter free, with a time of 5:16.3 mins. She teamed up
with her sister, Corazon Lozada, Victoria Cagayat and veteran Haydee Coloso-
Espino and got the Gold in the 4×100 m. freestyle event.

Tuding and her sisters would win medals again at the 1962 Asian Games in Indonesia
—Silver in the 4×100 meter freestyle (4:43.8 mins, set with sister Corazon, Connie
Paredes, and Haydee Coloso-Espino) and Bronze in the 4×100 individual medley
(shared with sister Tessie, Dolores Agustin, and Haydee Coloso-Espino) behind
Indonesia and Japan.
Tuding, the youngest Philippine Olympian in history (Akiko Thompson was
almost 14 when she competed in her first Olympics in Seoul), retired from
competitive swimming shortly in the 1970s, and today, she runs a swimming school
bearing her name.

7. The Saloma Brothers (Boxing)

Claim to fame: The Slugging

Brothers of the Boxing Ring

On August 9, 1970, three boxers

debuted together at the Araneta
Coliseum and created a buzz
with their awesome
performances in the ring. But
more amazing was the fact that
the three were real-life brothers.

The Saloma brothers came from

a large family of 10 children
from Iloilo. Bantamweight
Eddie–who was 24 in 1970–was
only 16 when he started boxing professionally in Iloilo, Davao, and Cotabato. He
never stopped schooling even while he boxed, and became a bookkeeper after
finishing his Commerce degree.

Joe, 20, an electrical engineering student, was a featherweight and was known for his
powerful “atomic punch,” which gave him a record of 28 wins, 1 loss, at his peak.
Youngest  Colley, just 18 and fresh from high school, was a “Class C” Philippine
amateur flyweight champion with an unbeaten record of 20 fights.

In April 1971, the brothers were billed in a boxing card at the Rizal Memorial
Coliseum and scored triple victories against their opponents. Through the 70s, the
Salomas were names to reckoned with, fighting in Guam, Korea, and the U.S. Joe had
his last bout in 1973, while Eddie and Colley continued their international quests until
1977.

8. Bana Sailani (Swimming)

Claim to fame: The First Filipino to Swim
400-Meter Freestyle Under 5 Minutes.

The two-time Olympian Bana Sailani was born

in Siasi, Sulu in 1937, to a family of fisherfolks
and pearl divers. His mother inadvertently
introduced him to swimming by throwing him
into the water, where the young Bana stroke his
way out of the deep. Soon, he was swimming expertly and started joining and winning
local meets.

The twelve-year-old talent caught the attention of former Olympian Sambiao

Bassanung, who, in 1949, took him to Manila to see if he could be trained to be a
competitive swimmer. For the next few years, the Rizal Memorial Stadium became
Sailani’s home where he underwent daily training—mornings and afternoons.

His training paid off, for in 1953,  Sailani broke the national 1,500-meter freestyle
record by 5 seconds, erasing the time set by Bassanung himself in 1950.

That same year in December, Sailani swam the 400-meter free against his nemesis,
Agapito Lozada, and made history by becoming the first Filipino swimmer to
swim the distance under 5 minutes. In fact, he did the feat twice—during his heat
and during the final round which he won over Lozada by over 2 meters. For his
achievement, he was named 1953 “Athlete of the Year” by the Philippine
Sportswriters Association (PSA), a tribute repeated in 1958.

Just 17 when he joined the Philippine team at his first-ever outing at the 1954 Asian
Games, Sailani won a Bronze with a time of 4:48.8 mins., bettering his former record
by almost 6 seconds. He would win 5 Bronzes in 2 more Asian Games editions (1958,
1962). The young Muslim athlete proudly represented the country in two Olympics—
1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome. He held 3 national records in 1960: 400-, 800- and
1,500-meter freestyle. In between competitions, Sailani went to U.S.T. to try finishing
his high school, but he never got to finish his schooling.

In 1963, he made two significant moves: he got married in Catholic rites and joined
the Philippine Air Force. He and his wife Aurora had 4 children: Jacqueline, James,
Jason and Jane, all professionals today. Sailani retired from the PAF in 1992 after
years of training swimmer athletes. He went on to become a swimming coach in
Manila schools like the Ateneo Grade School and was a long-time swim instructor at
the Makati Sports Club until he was well into his mid-60s.

The athlete, nicknamed as “buwaya” for his sleek, swimming style or endearingly
called “Bapá Banana,”  is regarded as the most outstanding middle-to-long
distance swimmer of post-war Philippines and a role model to a generation of
Muslim swimmers.

9. Sebastian Ugarte (Football)

Claim to fame: The Legend Who Gave His
Name to Makati’s Historic Football Field

Before the Azkals, there was the talented

Sebastian Ugarte, a high school teen who
played both in the basketball and football
teams of La Salle in 1925. By age 15, Ugarte
was playing in the big leagues like the Circulo
Recreativo, Club Filipino, Casino Español, and Santo Tomas Eleven.  At 16, he was
invited to join the Philippine Olympics team, which he later joined.

Ugarte excelled in the sport and for 14 consecutive years, he was named
collegiate soccer champion of the Philippines. His most thrilling game was when, as
a member of All-Manila Football, he played against the formidable Javanese
“Hercules” Team. The Manila team floundered in the first and second half and trailed
their foes 3-1. But his superb playing enabled the team to score successive points,
winning the match 4-3.

Ugarte continued to play after graduating in 1927 through the ‘30s. He then dabbled
in sportswriting for 4 publications. When the Ayala Triangle Gardens was developed
from the 42-hectare Nielson Airport in 1971, part of the land was transformed into the
football field known as Ugarte Field, named in his honor. In the 1980s, Ugarte Field
became part of of our People Power history by becoming the site of regular protests
against the Marcos dictatorship.

Activity No. 2
1. Do you consider yourself as an athlete?
 Yes, When I was in elementary I was chosen to be part of the badminton team
and I was with double category which means I have a partner in game. I always
wanted to play badminton when I was younger because I really find it so
interesting that is why when there is a trial for the students who want to join the
team I immediately take a shot and a few days later our coach talk to me about
being into their team. We compete twice where some players from other school
went on our school and start to play with us and luckily we’ve been chosen to
represent in district level , I was so jovial that time because that is my first time
competing with other players however when we were already at district level we
loosed because the players from the other side are more taller and bigger than us
so we have no chance to counter their hits. Otherwise that is one of the most
memorable experience that I ever had and It will remain treasured.

Activity No 3.
 Briefly answer the following question below:
1. Why do you think a player should learn the background facilities and equipment,
And the basic rules and regulations of badminton?
 It is mandatory as player to know every important details about badminton , it
essential in a sense that every equipment has a distinct roles in a game or sport.
Having the knowledge about materials ,equipment, and rules will definitely guide
for you to become an ethical player.
2. Does a player should learn the different strokes, setting the score and footwork in
playing badminton? Why?
 For me its a yes , that players must also know the strokes ,scoring pattern and also
the footwork specifically in badminton because for you to become a professional
athlete you must need to know first the basic movement or stroking and also the
scoring for you to monitor your points and also your opponent points by that you
will know if the lap from you two is short or big so as a player it is an advantage
to have knowledge about your sport specifically in badminton.
3. Does this module help you learn more about badminton ? How?
 Absolutely yes, in a sense that I have learned so much information about
badminton which I didn’t know back then like, the compositions of the
equipment, materials and even the brief history about badminton , the modules is
so informative that will definitely can help newbies with this game.It will be a
good source of basic rules and information about badminton because we all know
that majority of us don’t have a brief knowledge about this sport we just play it
without knowing the essence of the game hence, this module absolutely a
recommendable source for playing badminton.

Activity 4:

Activity 5:
1. Can you consider table tennis as a sport for all ages ? why?
 Yes , table tennis wasn’t all about power or age rather it is all about techniques
that you can apply during the game, Table tennis is a very flexible game that is
suitable to all ages, it doesn’t required huge venue or area to be able to play and
just even inside the house is possible for this game. It doesn’t required age to play
this game as long as you want it to try and enjoy playing this game then you can
check it out. There are a lot of misconceptions about this game some, may say
that this game is just for skillful people or to those people who really have talent
playing this game but they’re wrong ,upon contrary this game is for everyone
regardless of your age and status in life.