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THE PHILIPPINE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE

• The Philippine Olympic Committee-the
umbrella organization of all national
sports associations (NSAs).
• It is primarily responsible for activities
pertaining to the country’s participation
in the Olympic Games, Asian Games,
Southeast Asian Games, and other
international athletic competitions in
accordance with the rules of the
International Olympic Committee, the
Olympic Council of Asia, the Southeast
Asian Games Federation, and other
international sports bodies.
 PHILIPPINE PARTICIPATION IN THE OLYMPICS
(1924 – 2000)

The Philippines was represented for the first time in the

World Olympics. It was a two-man delegation sent by the
Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation in the 1924 VIIIth
Olympiad in Paris. David Nepomuceno, a Philippine scout
competed in the 100 m. and 200 m. dash and was eliminated
in the trial heats. Dr. Regino R. Ylanan was the
representative official and coach.
Teofilo Yldefonso
- was a Filipino breaststroke swimmer.
He was the first Filipino and Southeast
Asian to win an Olympic medal, and
the first Filipino to win multiple medals.

1928 (Amsterdam) bronze, 200m

backstroke

1932 (Los Angeles) bronze, 200m

backstroke
• Simeon Toribio
-was a Filipino high jumper. He
competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936
Olympics and won a bronze medal in
1932.

- In 1930 he was awarded the title

"Asia’s Greatest Athlete
• Jose Villanueva
-was an amateur boxer from the
Philippines who represented his
country at the 1932 Los Angeles
Olympics. Born in Binondo, Manila, he
won the bronze medal in the
bantamweight class after winning the
fight for third place
• Anthony Villanueva
-was a boxer from the Philippines. He
competed in the featherweight division
at the 1964 Olympics and won a silver
medal.
-1964 (Tokyo)silver, boxing featherweight
• Leopoldo Serantes
-was a Filipino amateur boxer and
soldier. He competed at the 1988
Summer Olympics in Seoul, South
Korea in the Light Flyweight division,
winning the bronze medal in a lost
bout against Ivailo Marinov from
Bulgaria in the semifinals.

-1988 (Seoul)bronze, boxing flyweight

• Arianne Cerdeña
-is a Filipino ten-pin bowling player.
She is best known for winning the first
gold medal for the Philippines in the
Summer Olympics; albeit in a
demonstration event hence the medal
won was not counted in the official
medal tally.
-Gold, bowling, demonstration sport.
• Roel Velasco
-is a retired boxer from the Philippines.
He competed in the light flyweight
division during the late 1980s, early
1990s. He represented his native
country of the Philippines at the 1992
Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain,

-1992 (Barcelona), bronze, boxing

lightweight
• Bea Lucero and Stephen Fernandez
-is a Filipino former athlete and
Olympian. She won a bronze medal at
the 1992 Olympics in taekwondo, a
demonstration sports at the Games.

-is a Filipino taekwondo practitioner

and coach. He competed at the 1992
Summer Olympics in Barcelona where
he won a bronze medal in taekwondo,
 • Mansueto Velasco
-is a Filipino retired boxer, comedian
and occasional actor from Bago,
Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Competing in the 48 kg category he
won a gold medal at the 1994 Asian
Games and a silver at the 1996
Summer Olympics, the Philippines' only
medal at those Games.
-(1996 Atlanta) Mansueto Velasco,
silver, boxing lightweight, bronze,
400m hurdles.
 MEDAL AND HONORS

• Efren “Bata” Reyes

-was dubbed as “The
magician” when he became
the 1985 Red 9-Ball Open
champion for his ability to
execute brilliant shots.
• Eric Buhain

-bronze medalist in swimming

in the 1990 Beijing Asian
Games.
• Eugene Torre

-became Asia’s first

grandmaster Chess Player at
the age of 22.
• Elma Muros

-was the only track athlete

who won in different events in
the Southeast Asian Games.
She was hailed as the
Southeast Asian games
heptathlon queen in 1997.
• Francisco Pancho Villa Guilledo
-was Asia’s first world
champion in boxing and
dubbed as the greatest
flyweight of the century.
• Gabriel “Flash” Elorde
-was dubbed as the greatest
Filipino boxer of all time.
• Gerald Rosales

-was an Asian Games silver

medalist and Southeast Asian
Games two-time champion in
golf.
• Jennifer Rosales

-was a five-time champion in

golf in the ladies’ Amateur
open before she turned
professional.
 • Lydia de Vega

-was Asia’s fastest woman in

the 1980s. She brought home
the gold medal twice in the
Asian Games in the 100-meter
dash and the silver medal in
the 200m run.
• Manny Pacquiao

-Won the International Boxing

Federation super
bantamweight championship
at the age of 23.

-8 Division Champion
• Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski

-is the accomplished

equestrienne who bagged the
gold medal for the Individual
Show jumping competition in
the 2002 Asian Games.
• Paeng Nepomuceno

-is an all-time greatest

international bowler with six
world championships to his
credit; some considered him as
the greatest Filipino athlete of
all time for making it to the
Guiness Book of World
Records.
• Ramon Fernandez
-was the Philippine Basketball
Association’s first four-time
Most Valuable player and
played in the league for a
record of 20 seasons.
• Robert Jaworski

-was one the Philippine

Basketball Association’s 25
greatest players of all time. At
his time of retirement, he was
the oldest professional
basketball player in the world.
• Toni Leviste
-was a delegate to the 2000
Sydney Olympics and part of
the Philippine Team that won
silver medal in the 2002 Asian
Games show jumping
competition.
• Alvin Patrimonio
-was a four-time Philippine
Basketball Association Most
valuable Player, two of which
were won back-to-back in
1993 and 1994.
•Bong Coo
-made her mark in the bowling
world when she delivered
nine consecutive strikes in
Carlos Loyzaga led the
Philippine Team that won the
bronze medal in the 1954
World Basketball
Championship and four golds.
• Dorothy Delasin

-is the Filipina who has

become the youngest Ladies’
Professional Golf Association
Champion in the last 25 years.
 THE ASIAN GAMES.
• The Asian Games are held for the purpose of
developing intercultural knowledge and
friendship within Asia.
• The member countries and regions affiliated
to the Olympic Council of Asia participate in
this multi-sports event.
• The Games are held every four years in
between the Olympic Games. This was first
conceived in 1950, and the first Asian Games
were held in New Delhi, India in 1951 with its
motto Ever Onward. The 2nd Asian Games
was held in Manila in 1954.
 THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN GAMES
• The South East Asian Games were known as the Southeast Asian peninsular Games
until When SEAP Games Federation accepted Indonesia and the Philippines as
members, the name was then changed to South East Asian (SEA) Games.
• Its aim is to promote cooperation, understanding and good relations among
countries in the region. It was all started in 1957 by Luang Sukhum Saipradit, the
then Vice President of the Thai Olympic Committee. His efforts culminated in the
first SEAP Games held in Thailand in 1959.
• The intention of the SEA Games is to rotate the hosts alphabetically by nation name
which removes the politics of bidding for the games, and allows the host countries
ample time to plan for their turn at the games. Manila has hosted the 1981, 1991,
and 2005 SEA Games.
Latest Update on Sports

Alexandra Eala became the

Philippines' first Grand Slam junior
champion at the US Open on
Saturday September 10.

The 17-year-old Filipina defeated

French Open girls champion Lucie
Havlickova of the Czech Republic
6-2, 6-4 in the final.
The End