Philippine Powerlifting Pre 2015

  Philippine Power-lifting Team qualifies for World Junior Meets Aug 26, 2015 Article By Joanne Masangkay edited by Andrew Pirie . Four of our best Power Lifter in the world qualified to the 15TH SUB-JUNIOR & 33RD JUNIOR WORLD POWERLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIP IN PRAQUE, CZECH REPUBLIC , EUROPE , Four of our best Power Lifter in…

Twitch or Flinch no longer a false Start

Twitch or Flinch no longer a false Start The danger of one inadvertent twitch ruining the greatest day of a sprinter’s life has been removed after athletics’ governing body softened the rules on false starts ahead of the London Olympics. The little-publicised clarification by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) permits athletes to move…

Ways to Improve Athletics in the Philippines

Ruperto Evangelista

Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician     Not much information is available online regarding the Great Coach of the ‘real golden era’ of Philippine Track and Field. His wards achievements have echoed into a distant memory of the current generations. And not even the last 2 generations of Filipinos remember the man who was…

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11 Yr Old Swimmer Jasmine Mojdeh Sets Sights 2024 Olympics

Jasmine Mojdeh Jasmine Mojdeh (Go For Gold Facebook Quoted If I’m not mistaken, she broke the age-group record of Singapore’s first gold medalist Joseph Schooling in a tournament in Singapore just recently which Schooling recorded in 2006.)   A comparison of Modjeh Scores to National Age Grade Records on Pinoyswimming.com.   Pinoyathletics will rely on…

Aries-Toledo

Aries Toledo - Profile

Aries Toledo Articles by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician     Rondo as he is more popularly known hailing from a poor family in the North. Was an SCUAA Standout. He made the move to the Decathlon. And was able to become the Philippines third ever SEA Games Decathlon Champion. He was the surprise winner at the 2017…

Gymnastics Adds 2 Golds for the Philippines

Gymnastics Adds 2 Golds for the Philippines Capellan claims 4th Gold for Philippines defends title Reynald Yuson Capellan successfully defended his SEA Games title in Men’s Artistic Floor. Capellan ended with 13.950 points. His win increases the Philippine Medal Tally to 4 Golds, 6 Silvers and 6 Bronzes. Capellan Gold in Singapore in 2015 ended…

Airnel Abarra

Author: Airnel Abarra, MSc. Aka. ‘The Professor’ Is the head of Track and Field Program of the Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines. While Originally teaching in San Pablo City, Laguna specialising in teaching Social Studies. Furthermore he has completed the degree of Master of Science in Human Movement Science Major in Exercise Science…

Cerah Moren

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2017 June Monthly Roundup Philippine Athletics

Two Junior Fil-Heritage athletes continued to show promise. Cerah Moren breaks Palabrica Junior Record, wins for Zion Corrales-Nelson June 29, 2017 The fast improving Cerah Moren from Arizona. Who is from Arizona. Erased the National Junior Record of Evalyn Palabrica 45.43m set 5 years ago in the ASEAN University Games in Vietnane. The 5’3 Moren,…

Training Childrens and Adolescents Athletics

Training Childrens Athletics 1. Grass Roots and Grass Training One of the fun parts of the job Zambonaga Del Sur is watching the progress and teaching the elementary age athletes. Grass Training in particular is one session we do. In Manila I noticed an obsession amongst coaches to train on rubberized ovals due to the…

UAAP: Sarah Dequinan Breaks UAAP Record

Sarah Dequinan Due to errors in Scoring for Heptathlon used by officials. I have had to pend this article for review. It was reported prior that Sarah Dequinan,along with Judy Almasa both of UST and Josefa Ligmayo of FEU. Had hit above the 4798 bronze medal standard for SEA Games. After being alerted by Asian…

4×100 Relay switch - Up , Down or Puss Pash?

Relay Switch Baton Passing Relay Switch Baton Passing Is there a preference on how to pass the baton blindly in a 4x100m relay? At the International level, Canada, USA & Jamaica all use the push pass. France, however, uses the up-sweep pass. Once upon a time, France held the WR in the 4x100m Relay before…

Regine Tugade of Guam

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Regine Tugade Articles

Tugade   Tugade ready for Navy’s season Mike Nauta Jr. | For The Guam Daily Post Jan 17, 2018 Updated Jan 17, 2018 Not only do I want to keep chipping away at Guam records, but I want to make my mark in my school and in our conference league as well.” – Regine Tugade AN OFFICER…

2015 PNG Luzon Leg Full Report (merged)

Day 1 Report (July 3): Rosales Returns   This is my delayed coverage report for the Athletics segment of the Philippine National Games Luzon Leg held at Philsports in Pasig, the meet was held July 3-7. As i have had a lot of other things on and am reflecting right now moving forward this report…

2015 Weekly Relays Reports Part 1

2015 Weekly Relays Reports Andrew Pirie PSC-PATAFA Weekly Relays ATFS Statiscian Manager of Philippine Air-force Alliance Meet Manager Weekly Relays   Due to Slow loading Speed. Due to the High Volume of Content and Data. This article archive on the 2015 Weekly Relays has been divided into four sections. 2015 PSC-PATAFA Weekly Background, Relays Rules, Schedules, Registration Backgrounder…

Pedro Subido

Pedro Subido (Dec 4, 1930- Dec 4, 2013) Pedro Subido was born in Naguilian, La Union He would be better known as a very capable member of the National Relay Squad in the 4×100 during the 1950s.   In the 1954 Asian Games he won the Philippines a bronze medal in the 4x100m Relay behind…

2015 Weekly Roundup March

Articles by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statiscian     Mar 15, 2015 Meanwhile 2014 PNG Champion Tyler Ruiz improved his seasons best to 2.07m, 6cm from the SEA Games standard. Ruiz holds a personal best of 2.17m from 2013. At Cougar invitational meet in Los Angeles, 17 year old Kyla Richardson who has battled with hamstring injuries the…

1982 Palarong Pambansa Dipolog (rev 8)

1982 Palarong Pambansa 1982 Palarong Pambansa Dipolog: 30 years on Article by Pirie Enzo .Add Media Thirty Years ago the Palarong Pambansa was held in Zamboanga Del Norte in Dipolog City. This would be the only time Dipolog ever held the Palarong Pambansa, although prior to this and afterwards Zamboanga would hold the games many…

2013 Philippines NCAA Schedule, Report and Photos

. Philippines NCAA Day 1 Report, Noval retains title   NCAA Philippines, Daniel Noval (CSB) narrowly held onto his 100m title for the third year in a row. He timed 10.89s just holding off the fast-finishing Archand Bagsit (Letran) who had an identical time. Utdohan in the boys had a fast 10.99s (which is an…

Brumel at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (Photo Credits: Getty Images)

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How the High Jump Evolved: A brief history

High Jump History of the Evolution of the High Jump < p style=”text-align: justify;”> As the initial thread of Evolution of the High Jump was so popular. Currently are #3 most popular post with over 800 reads at this time. I have decided to keep the original without make any changes for future reference.…