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MANILA, Philippines -- Filipino-foreign swimmers Gian Santos and Riannah Coleman continued their dominant run in the Philippine Aquatics Inc. (PAI) 50m long course national trials at the Teofilo Yldefonso swimming pool in Manila on Saturday.
MANILA, Philippines – Several swimmers stood out in the opening of the Philippine Aquatics Inc. 50 meter national sports trials at the Teofilo Yldefonso swimming pool in Manila on Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines -- The national trials for the 50 meters and 25 meters swimming kicked off on Thursday, as preparations for various competitions over the next year heats up.
FOR bringing anew honor and prestige to the country in the Paris Olympics, Filipina boxer Nesthy Petecio earned a Senate Medal of Excellence, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said.
MANILA, Philippines — Featherweight boxer Nesthy Petecio is now in the record books as one of only four Philippine athletes to pocket two Olympic medals, joining swimmer Teofilo Yldefonso (bronze, 1928, 1932), weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz (silver, 2016, gold, 2020) and gymnast Carlos Yulo (two golds, 2024). Petecio, 32, took silver in 2020 and is assured of a bronze in Paris.
MANILA, Philippines – Carlos Yulo’s incredible feat in the Paris Olympics flung him into the higher echelons of Filipino athletes in history.
PARIS – Three years after his Tokyo slip, gymnast Carlos Yulo emerged as an Olympic golden boy, coming through with the performance of his life and delivering a triumph for the ages in the floor exercise final at the Bercy Arena here Saturday.