Philippine Weightlifting needs help says Sports Chief

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2015 Batang Pinoy Athletics - Full Results & Report

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2015 Brunei Open Del Prado Videos

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2015 PNG Mindanao Athletics Results & Report

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2015 Weekly Roundup Philippine Athletics July

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2015 Palaro Reports (Merged)

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2015 Singapore Open Athletics Reports

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2015 Weekly Roundup March

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Track Ovals in the Philippines List of Track Ovals in the Philippines Track Oval in the Philippines NORTHERN LUZON TRACK OVALS 2) City of Ilagan Sports Complex. The San Vicente City of Ilagan. CENTRAL LUZON TRACK OVALS IN THE PHILIPPINES The Palayan City Sports complex is one of the most modern sports facilities in the country.…

PATAFA Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Meets

PATAFA Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Meets Meets sanctioned via PATAFA IAAF with Permit: Batang Pinoy Finals (uses PATAF officials) Brent Invites (uses PATAFA officials) Filipino Chinese Meet Milo Little Olympics Finals (uses PATAFA Officials) National Games National Open NCAA Palarong Pambansa (uses PATAFA Officials) PSC/PATAFA Weekly Relays UAAP *there maybe others which have permits …

15 year-old Janario new Hope for Filipino Hurdles, wins 5 Golds at Batang Pinoy leg in Aklan (rev 1) full results

Karen Janario, 15 became the most bemedalled athlete of the Qualifying Leg of the Batang Pinoy Oct 22-23 in Kalibo, Aklan. The 5’6 Janario who is coached by Trece Academia at the Leyte Sports Academy (LSA), was the most outstanding athlete of the meet. While she was discovered running around in the audience at a basketball game…

The Mystery of Quarter Miler Carlos Kevin Tan

Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician Our newest inductee to the Pinoyathletics.info hall of fame is a name shrouded in mystery. Early Fil-Heritage sprinter Kevin Carlos Tan, his name was listed on the world charts as Filipino even though he never represented the Philippines or ran at the National Championships. It was noted…

David Nepomuceno - First Filipino to compete in Olympics

David Nepomuceno After our first great sprinter Fortunato Catalon who won four consecutive far east titles from 1917 to 1923. In the 100 yards (91m) and 220 yards (201.1m) and 1925 100m. His successor was David Nepomuceno. Nepomuceno came to dominate in an era when the metric system was replacing the old imperial…

Phi Athletics Round up March 2014

Archives by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician . Phi Athletic Round Up - March 2014 - Week 2 - Griffey opens in the pouring rain Bacolod born Princess Joy Griffey opened the 2014 outdoor season with 11.93. While on a rain soaked track at the Lutheran Pacific University invitational in Washington. Also running into a slight…

ing the 2013 Batang Pinoy National Championship being held in Bacolod City.Photo by:NONIE REYES

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2013 Batang Pinoy Finals Full Report and Full Results

1. 2013 Batang Pinoy Finals - Full Results Athletics (Feb 8 , 2014) These are the Full Results of the Batang Pinoy National Championships in Athletics January 29-30 in Bacolod. Batang Pinoy Press Release Batang Pinoy Finals Athletics: Top Nine Athletes in each event Lorenzo Jenkins Labao has seven titles in Swimming Leyte…

2013 National Records in Philippines Track and Field

2013 National Records Filipino National Records Broken in 2014. Eric Cray 400m Hurdles Mens 50.74, Gator Invite, Gainesville, Florida (Fil-Heritage) Eric Cray 110m Hurdles Mens 14.17, Philippine National Games, Pasig (Fil-Heritage) Loralie Sermona 50.55m, Asian Champs, Pune, India (Coach Danilo Jarina) Eleazer Sunang 16.74m, Thailand Open, Bangkok (Coach Nixon Mas) Jennyrose Rosales 54.65s, UAAP, Dasmarinas…

Philippine Power-lifting Records (Updated)

Power-lifting Power-lifting Philippine Powerlifting Records Below is a list of the Philippine Powerlifting Records (Deadlift, Bench, Squat to parallel or below). Kindly supplied by national weightlifting coach Edmundo Cardano. Included in the lists of Records is University of the Philippines Thrower Precious De Leon. 1. Raw records begin Nov 2011 2.…

2013 The Return of the Filipina Sprinters

The Return of the Filipina Sprinters Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician The removal of several of our women’s sprinters from the SEA Games lineup leave a lot of questions to be asked as 35 entries were sliced to 28 by the Taskforce. However the Taskforce was generous to increase this number from the original…

Recruiting Athletes in Philippine Track and Field (rev 3)

Recruiting Athletes in Philippine Track and Field Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statiscian There are three ways I can think of which come to mind for recruiting talented Track and Field athletes into the Philippines, 1. Are grassroots programs e.g. finds at the Palarong Pambansa and other such meets Batang Pinoy Regional Palaro Meets…

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…

Maja Salvador, Thelma: Movie features Elma Muros (rev 1)

Maja Salvador Maja Salvador I was finally able to watch my copy of the Movie Thelma. Which stars Maja Salvador as the track runner Thelma. Also, the Interesting thing about this movie is it features the legendary Elma Muros ‘Guest Appearance’ as ‘Coach Rose’ her coach. Who recruits Thelma after she wins what appears to…

The Age of Inocencia Solis - The First Great Filipina Sprint Champion

I would like to share with the athletic community another great tale of one of our countries legendary female sprinters. Compiled by Pirie Enzo: but contributed by various sources including Mr Ignacio Dee. . The Philippines has a strong history of Women Sprint Champions at Asian Level. The last one was Lydia De Vega,…

Fortunato Catalon congratulated by Prince Chichibu at the 1923 Far East Asian Games (Photo Supplied by Ron Casey President of the International Society for Japanese Philately (ISJP).

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Fortunato Catalon the King of Filipino Sprinters

Fortunato Catalon Article by Pirie Enzo from various sources During the early dawn of Filipino Sports emerged are first great sprint champion Fortunato Catalon. . Early Beginnings Fortunato Catalon was born on October 14, 1897 in the town of Tolosa, Leyte, he hailed from a farming family from the interior of the island of…

70 Fun Track Ovals in the Philippines, guaranteed for your running needs

track ovals 70 Fun Track Ovals in the Philippines, guaranteed for your running needs Article, original article, and revisions by Andrew Pirie (Pirie Enzo) ATFS Statistician . Synopsis The First edition of this publication was published on Facebook on January 21, 2011. Hence in 2012, it moved to pinoymiler, then pinoyathletics.com, then pinoyathletics.info. Attached is…

Ensayo para sa kabataang atleta; Ano ba ang dapat?

Ensayo para sa kabataang atleta: Ano ba ang dapat? Airnel T. Abarra* Hangad ng bawat isang atleta na manalo. Walang makapapalit sa damdamin ng isang nagtatagumpay sa larangang kanyang kinabibilangan. Sa pag-aasam na manalo ng isang atleta o koponan sa larangan ng Athletics, malaking tanong pa rin kung paano ba dapat tingnan ang mithiin ng bawat isa. …

Loralie Sermona

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Loralie Sermona

Loralie Sermona Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician Below is my proposed Wiki, for another legend of Track and Field. In order to qualify for this status athlete must currently hold a record in a senior event. VIDEO OF LORALIE THROWING IN HONG KONG Loralie Amahit Sermona (born Nov 1, 1981), Is a Filipino Hammer Thrower and…

1981 SEA GAMES ATHLETICS COMPLETE RESULTS

1981 SEA GAMES ATHLETICS Manila, Philippines 1981 . Mens 100 METRES (10/12) HEAT 1 1 Sumet Promna Thailand 10.50 2 Ellron Alfred Angian Malaysia 10.73 3 Tang Ngai-kin Singapore 10.83 4 Constantino Sebastian Philippines 10.90 5 Christian Nenepath Indonesia 10.94 6 Thant Zin Burma 11.06 7 Baha Bujang Brunei 11.33 HEAT 2 1 Suchart Jairsurabharp…

Josephine de la Vina Untouched Discus Records

Josephine de la Vina ARTICLE by ANDREW PIRIE - ATFS Statistician & pinoyathletics.info Editor . Born Apr 20, 1946 New Lucena, Iloilo Philippines, Died Nov 4 2011, Jaro, Iloilo, Philippines This is a revision of an article I wrote for Pinoymiler on March 8, 2012, titled ‘Filipino Junior Records in Chaos and Collision: The Philippines Greatest…

English: Pole vault (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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60 Filipino Men over 4m Pole Vault

4m Pole Vault As requested by National Pole Vault Coach Emerson Obiena. Most noteworthy is a list of every single athlete of Filipino Heritage who has cleared over 4.00m. So now over 60 men are in this comprehensive list. Please email any corrections and amendments to [email protected] for certain performances. As we may need…

Monticalvo the Day before he leapt 5.10m.

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2013 Weekly Round Up Athletics April - May

2013. Fil-Heritage 2013 April (Amended) Alyana Shatters the Philippine Junior Record (Apr 1) . Alyana Nicolas had a significant break through on Saturday at the 2013 Chabot Invite & Relays. Nicolas who submitted her Filipino dual citizenship documents to PATAFA now has taken a considerable amount off her own National Junior Record with a leap…