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The Philippines competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, celebrating the centenary of the team's debut in the same city.Filipino athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games from 1924 onwards, except for Moscow 1980 when the nation was part of the American-led boycott.
Participation of Filipino athletes in the Olympics is sanctioned by its National Olympic Committee (NOC). Its NOC since 1975 is the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). Prior to that date, the Philippines was represented by the POC's predecessor, the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation which was founded in 1911.
The Philippine Olympic Committee fielded a team of 19 athletes, nine men and ten women, to compete in eleven different sports at the Games. The Philippines marked its Olympic debut in skateboarding (new to the 2020 Games), as well as its return to gymnastics and rowing.
Lauren Hoffman (born March 30, 1999 [3]) is a Filipino-American hurdler and sprinter.She qualified to represent the Philippines at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. [4] [5]
As for the olympics, their first participation began in 1924 and has continued every summer olympics except for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The first win that the Philippines national athletics team had won though was the olympic games, receiving a bronze medal in the Men's 200 meters breaststroke, won by Teófilo Yldefonso, in the 1928 Amsterdam ...
The 24-year-old gymnast made history as the first male Olympic gold medalist in the history of the Philippines when he won the top prize for his floor exercise on Aug. 3.
Philippines at the 2023 Southeast Asian Games; IOC code: PHI: NOC: Philippine Olympic Committee: Website: www.olympic.ph: in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 5 – 16 May 2023; Competitors: 840 in 38 sports: Flag bearers: Alyssa Valdez (Volleyball) Officials: 257: Medals Ranked 5th: Gold 58 Silver 85 Bronze 117 Total 260: Southeast Asian Games appearances
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