Rosito Andaya

Rosito Andaya Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician Pinoyathletics inducts a third coach into the Legends of Track and Field. Born in 1938 and hailing from the North of the country. Andaya coaching career spanned over 40 years. While not everybody liked him as a person. For all his brilliance, Andaya could be difficult to…

Phil Sports Joggers Lane 5-8 (rev 4)

Phil Sports Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician   PRIORITY FOR TRACK USE AT PHIL SPORTS National Athletes Track and Field National Athletes Collegiate Athletes Track and Field General Public (Joggers, varsity other sports, walkers etc..)   Common sense needs to be applied and national coaches will need to instruct and direct the use of oval…

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2012 ASEAN Uni Games Report

2012 ASEAN Uni Games Report Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician   With the completion of the UAAP. The action now moves to the ASEAN University Games with a selection of athletes based on availability and the results of the 74th UAAP last February. While the Games will be held Dec 12-18 in Vientiane Laos…

How to Dramatically Improve your running speed

How to Dramatically Improve your running speed By Mike Toal How to Improve Your Speed. This article gives an overview of the essential techniques required to enable an athlete to run faster. To increase any athletes speed means improving on one or both of the following elements: 1. Increase the number of steps an athlete…

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…

Jesson Cid Articles Archive

Jesson Cid Articles Archive Compiled by Andrew Pirie, ATFS Statistician From Various sources or Solely Decathlete Jesson Cid joins the Adopt an Olympian Program Aug 6, 2014 SEA Games Decathlon Champion and Philippine Record Holder Jesson Cid, 23 has joined the Adopt an Olympian program of Jim Lafferty. The Former UAAP standout and his Coach Sean…

Coach Barr demonstrating the toe-drag start (Photo Credits: NLAAF)

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Olympic Sprinters: Why Should I Toe Drag?

Olympic Sprinters: Why Should I Toe Drag? Todays Sunday Article is Guest Blogged by Coach Adarian Barr and Mrs. Alysson Bodenbach. Written by Adarian Barr and Alysson Bodenbach For more info Contact [email protected] or www.nextlevelathleticsandfitness.com … Toe drag out of a block start is becoming more and more common amongst elite sprinters. Examples include Usain Bolt on the second step.…

Fil-Heritage Athletes Philippine Passports and 2017 Ranking List Criteria Updated

Fil-Heritage Athletes Philippine Passports Fil-Heritage Athletes Philippine Passports As I have been getting a lot of queries by athletes of what they need in order to represent the Philippines. This article will save me a lot of time from having to relay repetitive generic information. This compulsory requirement has been endorsed by our National Sports Association, Philippine Track…

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…

Anfernee Lopena ‘The Boy Next Door’

Anfernee Lopena SEA Games 2017 Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician       Arguably one of the nicest guys in Philippine Track and Field. And the quintessential boy next door Anfernee Lopena finally became the Philippine National Champion in the prestigious 100m Dash in the 2017 National Open at Ilagan.   Originating from Bohol,…

Zion Corrales-Nelson Archive

Zion Corrales-Nelson   Zion Corrales Nelson makes Semis of World Junior 200 Jul 29, 2016 Philippine 400 Meter Record Holder Zion Rose Corrales Nelson, 17 made it to the Girls 200 Meter Semi-Finals at the prestigious World Junior (U20) Athletic Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Even though SEA Games 100 Meter Champion and 200 Meter silver…

2017 SEA YOUTH ATHLETICS RESULTS

2017 SEA YOUTH ATHLETICS RESULTS   2017 SEA YOUTH ATHLETICS RESULTS 2017 SEA YOUTH ATHLETICS RESULTS - FULL 2017 SEA Youth Athletics Results, held at Ilagan City, March 26-27. *PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LONG JUMP OF JASON JABOL is not listed correctly REPORT HERE REPORT 2 HERE               2017…

Clinton at Uni Games

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UAAP: Clinton Kingsley! Tidies up 400H Record

Clinton Kingsley Clinton Kingsley Bautista added the 400 Hurdles title to his 100 and 200m Titles. While the 23 year old FEU student who is in his final year clocked a new personal best of 52.81. His previous mark of 53.14 was done at the Singapore open last year. Bautista is a member of 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…

First second and third UE Girls.

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UAAP: Ellah Sirilan New Record in HS Girls 400H

Ellah Sirilan Ellah Sirilan started off her UAAP by establishing a new Record in her favourite 400 Hurdles event. Especially relevant is this is the second year of operation of the High school girls division at the UAAP. Furthermore it is the first year 400 Hurdles has been introduced for this category so their was…

Kapiti College School Records still intact

Kapiti College Its good to see my Western Zone, Wellington Records still intact. I checked out the College Sport Wellington Website the other day. And found in the most recent edition of the Western Zone Wellington High school meet (10 schools) my records are still there. My records for 12-13 year old boys and 14-15…

Blue Knights Track League DavNor: Report and Results

TAGUM CITY, DAVAO DEL NORTE-. While 28 Teams turned up in total. The 2016 SMART Blue Knights Track League Season 3-PSC Weekly Relays DavNor Edition had record-breaking attendance during its first conference finals. It was held at the Davao Del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex, Mankilam, Tagum City, Davao Del Norte on 15-16-October-2016. Also different schools and…

Jess Barnard Articles

Articles by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician 2016 Weekly Roundup Athletics January 2nd Week: Barnard Indoor Record Mile Jan 19, 2016 *any media copying this article must link pinoyathletics.info   Three Filipino athletes participated Indoors at University of Washington Dempsey Meet held in Seattle on January 16, 2016.   Fil-Heritage athlete Jessica Lyn Barnard, 25 established…

2016 PNG Final Complete Results Athletics

2016 PNG Final Complete Results Athletics   The 2016 PNG Final Results of Athletics. Held in Lingayen, Pangasinan March 7-11 The Results were supplied by a good friend of mine. i will write a full commentary and analysis in my next report.   2016-PNG-FINAL-OVERALL-RESULTS   Related articles PNG diplomats angry about poor communication PH vaulter…

Long Slow Running Builds long slow sprinters

Many college coaches are perplexed with the short amount of time they are able to spend with their athletes during the fall months. Typically, coaches get to work with their sprinters and hurdlers for 6 to 8 hours per week, depending on their conference or other institutional factors. Though this time is limited, it is…

Bogus Claims from Antonio Di Quinzio he is an Olympian!

Di Quinzio   Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician & Former Meet Director of PSC-PATAFA Weekly Relays 2015     Updated Results   2014 6.53m http://www.wwuvikings.com/sports/c-track/stats/041714aaa.html   No Performances since then from Quinzio he probably has retired           Australian based Anthony Di Quinzio, 23. Yet not only stated he has represented Australia…

Gender Issues in Athletics: Nancy Navalta

  Nancy Navalta was not the first controversial athlete who undergo gender questions. Other Filipina female sprinter s Mona Sulaiman, Juliette Poulding, and Gina Sucopol created gender issue questions?   In the early 1990s, seventeen-year-old Nancy Navalta burst into Philippine track and field. While running the 100-meter dash at 11.44 seconds. Furthermore, It’s an even more…

Arnulfo Valles

Arnulfo Valles Arnulfo Vallejos Valles was born in 15th August, 1940, in Tagbilaran, Bohol. Valles was an active sprinter during most of the 1960s. He was a PSIAA (Public Interscholastic Athletics Association, predecessor to the Palarong Pambnansa) stand out with William Mordeno. While he represented the Philippines at the 1964 at the Tokyo Olympic Games…

Genaro Saavdera -Jim Thorpe of the orient

Genaro Saavedra (born 1895) was a Filipino track and field athlete and four-time Far Eastern Championship Games champion. While at high school in Ambos Camarines, Saavedra was trained by a Nebraskan sports coach, Clinton “Doc” Fehliman. Who taught for six years in the country during its era of American influence. Although primarily interested in American football,…

2015 April, May Weekly Round up in Athletics

Archives by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician   2015 Weekly Round up Athletics Week 1 May: Kwiatkowski ties Marestella Torres Record One of the younger members of the ‘Fil-Heritage Program’ 18 year old Marisa Kwiatkowski continued to show impressive improvements. Kwiatkowski who studies at Stanford followed up on her 12.63m National Junior Record, with an improved…

2015 Singapore Open Athletics Reports

2015 Singapore Open 2015 Singapore Open Athletics (Schedule of Events) (Start lists) (Live Results) The first tune up meet for the Philippines Athletics Team will be in Singapore. The meet originally scheduled for March 26-27 was postponed to April 4 and 5. The SEA Games will be held in Singapore June 5-15. Pinoyathletics.info will bring…

2015 National Filipino Chinese Meet Results (rev 1)

2015 National Filipino Chinese Meet Results -ANDREW PIRIE for pinoyathletics.info The Filipino Chinese Meet Finals took place at Phil Sports, Pasig from 29th to 30th of March. A good turn out of athletes and young athletes with Chinese backgrounds from all over the country participated. With teams from Bacolod and Iloilo joining the meet. All…

2015 National Open Athletics Full Report

2015 National Open Athletics - Day 3 - Guarte 5th title, Stuart 3 Golds Mar 22, 2015 5th National Title for Guarte SANTA CRUZ LAGUNA, National Record Holder Mervin Guarte was king of the 1500m on the third day of the Philippine National Championships in Laguna. The 23 year old running for Team Rio stuck…

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…

Olongopo Speed Clinic

Olongopo Speed Clinic Olongopo Speed Clinic Accompanied by PATAFA National Sprint Coach Ernie Candelario. We took what ended up as more than a scenic tour on the way to Olongopo to conduct The Olongopo Speed Clinic. An early morning bus ride became a 4-5 hour trip. Every topic under the sun regarding the state of…

Phil Sports (Ultra) Oval correct Spike Nails (rev 1)

Phil Sports Phil Sports 1. CONTENTS   Opening Hours Advised Spike Nails   With Renovation of Phil Sports well underway with the relaying of the new track surface. I would like to revive this old article for the public’s information in regards to incoming guidelines.   While the PSC has invested a lot into the…

The Sean Guevara Story

Sean Guevara Sean Guevara Our latest induction to the Legends of Track and Field is current national Coach Sean Guevara who hails from Iloilo in Western Visayas. Consequently discovered by veteran coach Noel Diel one of the foremost coaches of the Western Visayas. Sean Guevara despite being already 29 years of age. And standing only…

Cesafi 2013 Results

Cesafi 2013 Results   The Cesafi results have been kindly provided by Coach Lyle Larida from the University of Cebu. Ammended by ATFS Statiscian Andrew Pirie with all hand times rounded up to the nearest 10th.   The Cesafi was held in Cebu, July 2013. No Wind Readings Recorded Due to the fact that the…

2013 SEA Games Report Athletics

2013 SEA GAMES 2013 SEA Games & Australia Overseas Training 2013 SEA Games & Australia Overseas Training One of my first correspondence with Former PSC Commissioner Jolly Gomez. Regarding an Australia Overseas training idea presented for 2013 SEA Games.   SEA Games 2013: Minimum of five golds, maximum of nine for Philippines Track and Field…

2013 Thailand Open Full Report

2013 Thailand Open Full Report   2013 Thailand Athletics Open Schedule The Philippines sends 47 in athletics to Thai Open most in its History   The Philippines the largest athletic team overseas in the countries history. Breaking all participation records. 47 Athletes and an additional 14 (mainly composed of national coaches, but including parents…

A job well done. Mr Joey Santos of PATAFA doing his bit for Philippines Athletics.

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2013 Weekly Relays Dasmarinas Results and Report

2013 Weekly Relays Dasmarinas Complete set of Results Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician     This is a complete set of results of all the Weekly Relays held at Dasmarinas in 2013. I would like to thank Ms. Tyne Artiaga the official encoder of PATAFA for compiling these results from the handwritten results were taken…

Fil Heritage pole vaulter Alyana Nicolas targets the National Junior Pole Vault Record

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2013 July Weekly Roundup Philippine Athletics

Articles by Andrew Pirie Sarah Vitug closes in on Long Standing 1500m Womens National Record (Jul 4, 2013) . Sarah Vitug An athlete excluded from the lineup for the last SEA Games continued to lower her personal best. Vitug actually qualified for the last sea games as her mark of 4m34 was actually below the 4m38 bronze standard.…

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…

Pole Vault Results 2012 Complete (merged)

Kunshan (CHN) 22-25.09.12 -National Championships- Mens Pole Vault Pole vault 24 September 1 Yang Yansheng CHN 5 Jan 88 5.70 SB 2 Xue Changrui CHN 31 May 91 5.60 PB 3 Zhang Wei CHN 22 Mar 94 5.50 =PB 4 Lu Yao CHN 19 Sep 87 5.30 SB 5 Xie Xing CHN 3 Feb 88…

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2012 UAAP Full Previews, Schedule, Day 1-4 Report (merged)

2012 UAAP 2012 UAAP Schedule (kindly supplied by EJ Obiena) Tuesday, Dec 4 - Day 1 TIME EVENT DIVISION ROUND 4:00 100m dash men decathlon1 4:05 100m dash boys heats 4:15 100m dash women heats 4:25 100m dash men heats 4:35 800m run boys heats 4:45 800m run men heats 4:55 800m run women heats…

2012 PSC PNG Review and Results

2012 PSC PNG Review and Results PSC/Philippine National Games Full Review (May 28-31) Dumaguete By ATFS Statiscian Andrew Pirie . Discussion Points? Ways to Improve the National Championships??   (Feel Free to comment on the above suggestions welcome)   1. Have more lavish Medal Ceremonies in between events. It instills upon the athletes a sense that…

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…

Elma Muros the SEA Games Heptathlon Queen

  The Early 80s was an exciting era for Philippine Track and Field. The country was winning international sports events in the region here and there. And medals were not hard to come by. A few athletes instantly became household names. Among them is a no-nonsense runner and durable heptathlon athlete named Elma Muros. [EMBED]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAtrusA8ADo[/EMBED]…

Cristabel Martes the Marathon Queen

Article by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician We have not done a feature on a legend of track and field for a while. Due to preparation of the PNG and commitments to assisting various athletes.   Its only fitting that Christabel Martes who won the SEA Games Marathon twice in 2001 lost the title in 2003…

Legend of Philippines Track and Field Lydia De Vega

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Lydia De Vega Asia’s Sprint Queen (rev 9)

Lydia De Vega Article Revised by Andrew Pirie ATFS Statistician   Lydia De Vega was Asia’s fastest women during the 1980s. Therefore one of the important chess pieces of the Gintong Alay program in Track and Field. Hence turning the Philippines into a superpower in Asian Track and Field and inspired national pride in being Filipino.   Also, De Vega…

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.…

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…

Tudor Bompa: Photo Credit (The Truestar Health Team)

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Interview Tudor Bompa Development of Periodization

Tudor Bompa June 27, 2013 Tudor Bompa is known to many as the man who single-highhandedly revolutionized Western training methods. Name your favorite strength coach and very likely he’s been strongly influenced by the work of Tudor Bompa. Learn his secrets!   By: Mike Mahler Feb 21, 2003 After more than forty years of work…