List of Olympic medalists for the Philippines

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.

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History

The Philippines began participating at the Olympic Games in 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 Teófilo Yldefonso finished third at the 200 meter breaststroke event. 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 was comparatively as 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 1932.

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 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 two gold and two bronze medals.

List of medalists

Medal Name Defeated by Event Sport Year Location
Teófilo 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
Bob Van Osdel
Men's high jump Athletics
José Villanueva Horace Lefty Gwynne
Semi-final
Men's bantamweight Boxing
Miguel White Glenn Hardin
John Loaring
Men's 400 metre hurdles Athletics 1936 Berlin, Germany
Anthony Villanueva Stanislav Stepashkin
Gold medal bout
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 bout
Men's light flyweight Boxing 1996 Atlanta, United States

Medalists in demonstration sports

Medal Name Defeated by Event Sport Year Location
Willy Wang - Men's Nanquan & Nangun combined Wushu 2008 Beijing, China
Ariane Cerdena - Women's bowling Bowling 1988 Seoul, South Korea
Stephen Fernandez Sayed Youssef Najem
Semi-final
Men's bantamweight Taekwondo 1992 Barcelona, Spain
Beatriz Lucero Aysegul Ergin
Semi-final
Women's featherweight

Medal tally

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

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