List of Olympic medalists for the Philippines

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This List of Olympic medalists for the Philippines collects in one location all the names of medalists who participated in the Olympics on behalf of the Philippines.

Contents 1 History 2 List of medalists 2.1 Medalists in demonstration sports 3 Medal tally 3.1 By sport 4 Reference

[edit] History

The Philippines began participating at the Olympic Games on the 1924 Summer Olympics held at Amsterdam, with David Nepomuceno as the sole participant. At the 1928 Summer Olympics at Amsterdam, the Commonwealth won its first medal when swimmer Teofilo Yldefonso finished third at the 200 metre breaststroke event, good enough for second place. The 1932 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles was the most fruitful for the Filipinos, when they were awarded with three bronze medals. It was even said that Los Angeles' weather helped the athletes as it comparatively the same with that of the Philippines. The Philippines would win another bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin.

After independence from the United States, the country did not win another medal until the Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympics, where boxer Anthony Villanueva was beaten at the gold medal bout. His father, Jose, was one of the bronze medalists in 1936.

Boxing would later bring all of the remaining medals of the country, with Leopoldo Serrantes winning bronze at the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics. Another boxer won a bronze medal 4 year later in Barcelona courtesy of Roel Velasco while his younger brother Mansueto was beaten at the gold medal bout to claim silver at the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta.

Among demonstration sports, the country won one gold and two bronze medals.

[edit] List of medalists

Medal	Name	Defeated by	Event	Sport	Year	Location
	Teofilo Yldefonso	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Erich Rademacher	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	Swimming	1928	Amsterdam, Netherlands
		Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Reizo Koike	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	Swimming	1932	Los Angeles, United States
	Simeon Toribio	Duncan McNaughton Robert van Osdel	Men's high jump	Athletics
	Jose Villanueva	Horace Lefty Gwynne Hans Ziglarski	Men's bantamweight	Boxing
	Miguel White	Glenn Hardin John Loaring	Men's 400 metre hurdles	Athletics	1936	Berlin, Germany
	Anthony Villanueva	Stanislav Stepashkin	Men's featherweight	Boxing	1964	Tokyo, Japan
	Leopoldo Serantes	Ivailo Marinov Semi-final	Men's light flyweight	Boxing	1988	Seoul, South Korea
	Roel Velasco	Rogelio Marcelo Semi-final	Men's light flyweight	Boxing	1992	Barcelona, Spain
	Mansueto Velasco	Daniel Petrov Gold medal match	Men's light flyweight	Boxing	1996	Atlanta, United States

[edit] Medalists in demonstration sports

Medal	Name	Defeated by	Event	Sport	Year	Location
	Ariane Cerdena	-	Women's bowling	Bowling	1988	Seoul, South Korea
	Stephen Fernandez	?	Men's bantamweight	Taekwondo	1992	Barcelona, Spain
	Beatriz Lucero	?	Women's featherweight

[edit] Medal tally

[edit] By sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Boxing	0	2	3	5
Athletics	0	0	2	2
Swimming	0	0	2	2
Philippines (PHI)	0	2	7	9

[edit] Reference

• Philippine Sports Commission