Philippines national athletics team explained

The Philippines national athletics team represents the Philippines at the international athletics competitions such as Olympic Games or World Athletics Championships. Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) is the governing body of athletics in the Philippines. The first participation of the Philippines in an international competition was at the Far Eastern Games in 1913.^[1] As for the olympics, their first participation began in 1924 and has continued every summer olympics except for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The first win that the Philippines national athletics team had won though was the olympic games, receiving a bronze medal in the Men's 200 meters breaststroke, won by Teófilo Yldefonso, in the 1928 Amsterdam summer Olympics.

Medal count

Event	Editions	1st edition	Total	Notes
							Tot.
align=left	Olympic Games	20	1924	0	0	2	2	details
align=left	World Championships	TBA	1983	0	1	1	2
align=left	Asian Athletics Championships	23	1973	13	11	18	42
align=left	Asian Games	18	1951	11	10	29	50

Asian Athletic Championship

All-time Medal Tally (Athletics)

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
	-	4	3	3	10	3rd
	-	0	0	0	0	-
	-	0	0	1	1	10th
	-	0	2	1	3	7th
	-	3	2	3	8	6th
	-	1	0	3	4	8th
	-	2	0	0	2	6th
	-	0	1	0	1	11th
	-	0	0	0	0	-
	-	0	0	1	1	17
	-	0	0	1	1	18th
	-	0	0	0	0	-
	7	0	0	0	0	-
	-	0	1	1	2	15th
	-	0	0	2	2	18th
	14	0	1	0	1	16th
	-	0	0	0	0	-
	5	1	0	0	1	11th
	6	0	0	0	0	-
	14	0	0	0	0	-
	1	0	0	0	0	-
	7	1	1	1	3	11th
	13	1	0	1	2	12th
	21	2	0	0	2	6th
Total		15	11	18	42	15

List of Asian Athletics Championships medalists

width=30%	Name	width=20%	Event	width=20%	Medal
Tokal Mokalam	1973 Manila Men's 200 metres	Bronze Medal
Marcelo Benauro	1973 Manila Men's 110 metres hurdles	Bronze Medal
Abdulkadir Guiapar	1973 Manila Men's 400 metres hurdles	Gold Medal
Abdulkadir Guiapar, Clemente Lupangco, Santos Magno, Ernesto Tabayan	1973 Manila Men's 4 × 400 metres relay	Silver Medal
Amelita Alanes	1973 Manila Women's 100 metres	Gold Medal
Amelita Alanes	1973 Manila Women's 200 metres	Silver Medal
Amelita Alanes, ?, ?, ?	1973 Manila Women's 4 × 100 metres relay	Bronze Medal
Amelita Alanes, Aida Mantawel, Carmen Torres, Rosalinda Yumol	1973 Manila Women's 4 × 400 metres relay	Gold Medal
Josephine de la Viñal	1973 Manila Women's Discus throw	Gold Medal
Erlinda Lavandia	1973 Manila Women's Javelin throw	Silver Medal
Lydia de Vega	1981 Tokyo Women's 200 metres	Bronze Medal
Lydia de Vega	1981 Tokyo Women's 400 metres	Silver Medal
Team Philippines	1981 Tokyo Women's 4 × 400 metres relay	Silver Medal
Isidro del Prado	1983 Kuawait City Men's 400 metres	Gold Medal
Hector Begeo	1983 Kuawait City Men's 3000 metre steeplechase	Silver Medal
Team Philippines	1983 Kuawait City Men's 4 × 400 metres relay	Bronze Medal
Lydia De Vega	1983 Kuawait City Women's 100 metres	Gold Medal
Lydia De Vega	1983 Kuawait City Women's 200 metres	Gold Medal
Lydia De Vega	1983 Kuawait City Women's 400 metres	Bronze Medal
Agrifina de la Cruz	1983 Kuawait City Women's 400 metres hurdles	Bronze Medal
Elma Muros	1983 Kuawait City Women's Long Jump	Silver Medal
Isidro del Prado	1985 Jakarta Men's 400 metres	Gold Medal
Team Philippines	1985 Jakarta Men's 4 x 400 metres	Bronze Medal
Lydia De Vega	1985 Jakarta Women's 100 metres	Bronze Medal
Agrifina de la Cruz	1985 Jakarta Women's 400 metres hurdles	Bronze Medal
Lydia de Vega	1987 Singapore Women's 100 metres	Gold Medal
Lydia de Vega	1987 Singapore Women's 200 metres	Gold Medal
Elma Muros	1989 New Delhi Women's Long Jump	Silver Medal
Elma Muros	1993 Manila Women's Long Jump	Bronze Medal
Elma Muros	1995 Jakarta Women's Long Jump	Bronze Medal
Lerma Gabito	2002 Colombo Women's Long Jump	Silver Medal
Marestella Torres	2002 Colombo Women's Long Jump	Bronze Medal
Eduardo Buenavista	2003 Manila Men's 10,000 metres	Bronze Medal
Lerma Gabito	2003 Manila Women's Long Jump	Bronze Medal
Marestella Torres	2005 Incheon Women's Long Jump	Silver Medal
Marestella Torres	2009 Guangzhou Women's Long Jump	Gold Medal
Eric Cray	2017 Bhubaneswar Men's 400 metres hurdles	Gold Medal
Ernest Obiena	2019 Doha Men's Pole vault	Gold Medal
Natalie Uy	2019 Doha Women's Pole vault	Bronze Medal

Asian Games

All-time Medal Tally (Athletics)

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
	-	1	0	3	4	5
	-	0	1	7	8	8
	-	3	4	4	11	4
	-	4	1	4	9	3
	-	1	1	3	5	6
	-	0	1	3	4	10
	-	0	0	0	0	-
	-	0	0	1	1	11
	-	1	0	1	2	7
	-	1	2	1	4	5
	-	0	0	1	1	11
	-	0	0	1	1	13
	1	0	0	0	0	-
	13	0	0	0	0	-
	11	0	0	0	0	-
	7	0	0	0	0	-
	9	0	0	0	0	-
	13	0	0	0	0	-
2022 Hangzhou	18	1	0	0	1	11
2026 Nagoya	Future event
2030 Doha	Future event
2034 Riyadh	Future event
Total	-	11	10	29	50	13

Athletics

See main article: List of Asian Games medalists in athletics. Athletics is one of the core sports of the Asian games. Mona Sulaiman has the most gold medal with three.

Year introduced: 1951
First medal : 1951
Last medal: 1994

100 meters

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
	Genaro Cabrera			1954
				1958
				1958
				1962
				1962
				1982
				1986

200 meters

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
				1954
				1958
				1962
				1970
				1986

400 meters

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
				1958
				1986

800 meters

Relay

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
	Tito Almagro Jovencio Ardina Bernabe Lovina Genaro Cabrera			1951
	Genaro Cabrera Gaspar Azares Eusebio Ensong Pedro Subido			1954
	Inocencia Solis Rogelia Ferrer Manolita Cinco Roberta Anore			1954
				1958
				1958
				1962
				1962
	Rogelio Onofre Remegio Vista Arnulfo Valles William Moderno			1966
	Amelita Saberon Lucila Tolentino Lorena Morcilla Lydia Silva-Netto			1978

Relay

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
	Bienvenido Llaneta Bernabe Lovina Tomas Bennet Genaro Cabrera			1951
				1954
				1986

Discus Throw

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
	Aurelio Amante			1951
				1962
				1966

High Jump

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
				1951
				1954
				1958
				1962
				1966
				1970

Pole Vault

Hurdles

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
	Jaime Pimental			1954
				1958
				1958
				1962
				1990

Javelin Throw

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
	Vivencia Subido			1954
	Marcelina Alonso			1966

Long Jump

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
				1958
				1994

Pentathlon

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
				1966
				1970

Shot Put

Steeplechase

SEA Games

All-time Medal Tally (Athletics)

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
	-	1	6	5	12	6th
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	11	11	10	32	bgcolor=gold	1st
	-	10	4	5	19	bgcolor=silver	2nd
	-	6	11	2	19	4th
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-	-
	-	8	11	2	23	bgcolor=silver	2nd
	-	8	3	5	16	bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
	-	9	11	9	291	bgcolor=silver	2nd
	-	5	7	9	29	5th
	-	7	3	4	14	4th
	-	3	9	5	17	5th
	-	6	4	3	13	4th
	36	5	7	9	21	4th
	38	5	3	10	18	5th
	-	11	8	8	27	bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
	-	5	7	14	26	bgcolor=cc9966	3rd
	-	4	10	8	22	5th
	Future event
Total		-	-	-	-	-

Olympic Games

See main article: List of Olympic medalists in athletics (men). Year introduced: 1896
First medal : 1932
Last medal: 1936

List of Olympic Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Year
				1932
				1936

All-time Medal Tally (Athletics)

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	-	-
		0	0	1	1	13
		0	0	1	1	14
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	-
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	-
		0	0	0	0	-
		0	0	0	0	-
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	-
		0	0	0	0	-
Total		0	0	2	2	96

Records

See main article: List of Filipino records in athletics.

Coaches

These are the national team coaches who have been appointed by PATAFA.

See also

• Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of Track and Field in the Philippines. 15 October 2015. Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association.