Philippines worst finish in the SEA Games since 1999
SEA Games Worst Finish
It seemed that during the 2017 SEA Games, the Mall across the road was having a
50% off sale. Which unfortunately also included the Gold Medal count for Team
Philippines.
When the task force had predicted 50 golds medal before the SEA Games its seemed a bit
hard to swallow. The initial estimate of NSAs was even higher at 63. But the task force
lowered this to 50 as it seemed like a nicer round figure.
But as the dust settled the Philippines got more than a 50% discount on this original
prediction with just 24 golds totalled, and another 6th place finish.
Pinoyathletics.info had predicted 25-32 Golds for 2013, and 2015 where we secured 29. And
had made the same prediction for 2017 officially on July 1, even though on Facebook we had
already stated this a lot earlier. However unfortunatley even this was too high a forecast. As
the final tally scraped underneath 25.
In short 24 golds is the Philippines worst showing in 18 years. Since Hosting the 2005 SEA
Games we have shown a continuous drop in number of golds. The worst showing 1999 was
19 golds, followed by 1979 24 golds.
This is our 2nd= lowest number of Golds in a SEA Games in the events 40 Year
History.
We have now tied this in 2017 with our second equal worst ever showing Philippines 40 year
participation in the South East Asian Games.
In retrospect the Philippines, overall positions has been dropping since the SEA Games
began apart from when we hosted in 2005. If any consolation the Philippines did climb back
from 7th to 6th place, but has placed no higher than 5th (2009) after hosting the SEA Games.
Overall Medal Position Historically of the Philippines
Total Number of Medals Historically won by Philippines at SEA Games
In 2017 SEA Games 9 of the 24 Golds for the Philippines came from Dual Citizens (37.5%). While this is not a majority. It is a significant number. The Basketball and Ice Hockey team
also benefited from Dual Citizens. While we respect Fil-American and FIlipino’s from other
countries make great sacrifices for the hardship of competing for a third world nation.
NSAs should be doing a global talent search of Fil Foreign communities ‘as well as’ not
instead of developing and building strong Talent Identification and Grass root programs.
Worst Ever in % of Gold
Thanks to Go for Gold Philippines. Advice he pointed out that the Philippines performance
in 2017 is the worst ever in the percentage of Gold. I took the liberty of checking every year
on a spread sheet and found they were absolutely right.
The Philippines had 24 of 406 golds in 2017 or 5.91% of all golds available. Compare that to
1999 when we won 19 of only 233 golds which is 8.15% of all golds available.
No years before 1999 do we have lower percentages of Golds. But in 2001, 2011, 2013,
2015, and 2017 The Philippines have worse percentages of total number of golds than in
1999.
Are worse count for total % of medals is 2013 with 6.60%. In 2017 it was 9.07% of total
medals which is the second worse. From 2009 until 2017 is the only years we have less than
10% of all total medals available. Its understandable that 2013 was the lowest % of medals as
Myanmar was expensive to get to and the team size was somewhat restricted.
Surprisingly 2005 although it was the highest overall placing and the only time we got 1st
overall. Largest number of golds 113 and largest number of medals 291 we have ever had. It
is not the largest % of golds or % of medals we have ever had. In 2005 we had 25.45% of all
golds, however in 1991 when we also hosted we had 27.74%. 2005 was second in this
category.
The largest number % of all medals we had was 1981 with 24.77% of all medals, when
Manila also hosted. 2005 had 19.9% of all medals. This is superseded by 1981, 1991, and
1983 which all were over 20% of all medals. Since 2005 the Philippines has failed to get
more than 15% of all medals and from 2009 on wards is getting less than 10%.
Thank you
I would like to thank those who helped with analysis and break down of this data. Including
Go For Gold Philippines Face Book page, The Walking Encyclopedia Joseph Dumuk and
Veteran PSC Statistician, The PSC, and various sports writers and enthusiasts.
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