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29 Sports Shooting. 30 Sprinting. 31 Sumo Wrestling. 32 Swimming. 33 Table Tennis. ... This is a list of notable Filipino athletes. Alpine Skiers. Michael Teruel ...
Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga y Matute (August 29, 1930 – January 27, 2016) was a Filipino basketball player, coach and politician. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time. As a member of the Philippine national team.
In 2014, he led "Pagpupugay", a tribute to Filipino sports heroes. That tribute got minor citation from the PSA Annual Awards in 2015. [17] He criticized Chot Reyes and the SBP for mishandling the team in 2023 FIBA World Cup. [18] [8] Beside of being a former boxing play-by-play commentator, he also a contributor to Philippine boxing. [13]
Losing brings for more lessons learned and strengthening of values such as perseverance. Another positive coming from sports is teaching Filipino Americans to not be tatamad-tamad or tendency to be lazy. [1] Sports brings the together the ideas of respect, hard work, discipline, commitment, and being part of a team.
In the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, she won three gold medals (100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and 4100 meter relay). Solaiman was among the second group of Filipino sports legends inducted into the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame on January 25, 2016 at the Century Park Hotel in Manila. [9]
Olivia "Bong" Coo [13] (born June 3, 1948) is a Filipino sports administrator and retired professional bowler. She is regarded as the most decorated Filipino athlete. [14] As a member of the Philippine national team, she has amassed a total of 78 medals won in regional and world competitions, 37 of which were gold medals. [15]
The Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF) is a hall of fame established in 1999 to honor Filipino athletes, trainers, and coaches with the first batch of inductees included in the hall of fame in 2010. [1] The Philippine Sports Commission manages the operations of the hall of fame. [2]
Lauro Mumar, FIBA World Championship medalist, Philippine National Basketball Hall of Famer; Bernie Fabiosa, PBA legend, 25 Greatest Players of the PBA, played from 1975-1991; Lawrence Mumar, basketball player and coach; Nonito Donaire of Talibon- four-division world boxing champion; Simeon Toribio of Carmen - Olympian, athletics; Reynaldo ...