Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

Filipino Track and Field

Download as docx, pdf, or txt
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 6

Lydia de Vega-Mercado

Personal information

Birth name Lydia de Vega

Nickname(s) Diay

Born December 12, 1964 (age 53)

Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines

Sport

Country Philippines

Sport Track and field (Sprint)

Event(s) 100m, 200m, 400, Long Jumps

Retired 1994

De Vega first made an impact at the 1981 Southeast


Asian (SEA) Games held in Manila with gold medal
performances in the 200 and 400 meter events
exceeding records set at the Asian Games. As Asia's
sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal in the
100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad and
duplicated the feat in the 1986 Seoul Asiad where she
clocked 11.53 seconds.
De Vega won the gold in the 100 meters at the SEA
Games (1987, 1991 and 1993). She also topped the 200
meter event in 1981, 1983, 1987 and 1993. She has twice won both the 100 and 200 meter gold in the
Asian Athletics Championships - 1983 and 1987. She holds both Philippine and Southeast Asian records
with her personal best of 11.28 seconds.
De Vega was a two-time Olympian, represented the Philippines at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
She also brought home a silver medal in the 200-meter race from the 1986 Seoul Asiad, and has once
represented a friend for the Long Jumps and broke her record.
In 1989 until 1991, De Vega took a break from athletics. During this period she got a degree and got
married. She entered the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships and made a decent finish of seventh
place.[3]
The sprinter retired after competing at the track and field event of the 1994 Manila-Fujian Games held in
October. She won the 100m event. She announced that she would not be competing at the upcoming
edition of the Philippine National Games at that time.

Elma Muros

Personal information

Full name Elma Muros-Posadas

Nationality Filipino

Born January 14, 1967 (age 51)

Magdiwang, Romblon

Sport

Country Philippines

Sport Track and field

Event(s) Long jump, Heptathlon

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s) 57.57 (400 hurdles)

Medal record[hide]

Representing Philippines
Women's athletics
Asian Games
1990 Beijing 400 m hurdles
1994 Hiroshima Long jump
Asian Athletics Championships
1983 Kuwait Long jump
1989 Delhi Long jump
1993 Manila Long jump
1995 Jakarta Long jump

Muros is involved in track and field competitively as early as when she was 14 years old. At that
time, she was scouted by local officials looking for potential athletes for the Southern Tagalog
Regional Athletics Association sporting meet.
Muros-Posadas won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games, a record number
in the athletics competition which she jointly holds with Jennifer Tin Lay of Myanmar. Muros won
eight South East Asian Games titles in the long jump the first at the age of 16 in 1983. At one
point, she also dominated the sprints winning both the 100 and 200 metres in the 1995 Southeast
Asian Games. She was also a competitor for the Philippines in the long jump event at the Olympic
Games in 1984 and 1996. She represented her country at the World Championships in
Athletics on four occasions: in the 400 m hurdles in 1991, the long jump in 1995 and 1997, and
the 100 metres in 1997. She was also a five-time participant at the IAAF World Indoor
Championships, competing in 1985, 1989, 1993, 1995 and 1997 in sprints and long jump. She
was a two-time medallist at the Asian Games, taking the long jump bronze medal at the 1994
Games as well as a 400 metres hurdles bronze medal in 1990. She won four medals in the long
jump at the Asian Athletics Championships over the course of her career, winning silver medals
in 1983 and 1989, then bronze medals at the 1993 and 1995 editions. She holds several Filipino
records: 57.57 seconds for the 400 m hurdles, 5346 points for the heptathlon (set at the 1998
Asian Games), 3:40.9 minutes for the 4×400 metres relay, 25.05 seconds for the indoor 200
metres and 6.11 m for the indoor long jump. She was a two-time PSA Sportsman of the Year,
winning the award in 1993 and 1995. She attended Far Eastern University in Manila.
Since her retirement in 2001, Muros-Posadas has appeared several times on the reality television
show Survivor Philippines. In 2011, Elma landed a role in her very own biographical and loosely-
based independent movie directed by Paul Soriano, "Thelma", who won best director in the 30th
Luna Awards with his direction in this movie. Elma's life and a combination of many provincial
athletes and their lives and struggles were portrayed by famous Filipina actress, Maja Salvador,
who won Best Actress in the 30th Luna Awards played the lead role for, "Thelma", as Thelma.
The movie won Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography in the 30th Luna Awards.
In 2016, Muros was reported to be working at Brent International School
in Biñan, Laguna, University of the East and Jose Rizal University where she along with her
husband train the youth in sports. In early 2017, Muros along with former boxer Onyok
Velasco was tasked by the Philippine Sports Commission to aid the country's grassroots
program.

Eduardo Buenavista
Personal information

Nationality Filipino

Born 13 October 1978 (age 39)

Barangay Teresita, Santo Niño, South

Cotabato, Philippines

Height 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)

Weight 62 kg (137 lb)

Sport

Sport Running

Achievements and titles

Personal 3000 m: 8:17.14 (2002)

best(s) 3000 m Steeplechase: 8:40.77 (2001)

5000 m: 13:58.43 (2002)

10000 m: 29:02.36 (2002)

10000 m Road: 30:20 (2005)


Half Marathon: 1:03:42 (2005)

Marathon: 2:18:53 (2007)

Medal record[hide]

Men's Athletics
Representing
Asian Athletics Championships
2003 Manila 10000 m
Southeast Asian Games
3000 m
2001 Kuala Lumpur
steeplechase
2001 Kuala Lumpur 5000 m Eduardo Buenavista (born 13 October
1978 in Santo Niño, South Cotabato) is
2003 Hanoi 10,000m
a Filipino long-distance runner and two-
2009 Vientiane marathon time Olympian. He holds the Philippine
2003 Hanoi 5000m record for multiple long distance events.
2005 Manila 10,000m His best marathon time is 2:18:44
2007 Nakhon hours. He also holds the
marathon
Ratchasima
Philippine 5000 metres record of 13
2011 Palembang marathon minutes, 58 seconds, and performed
the 10,000 metres in 29:02.36 minutes.
"Vertek", as called by his friends and the media, finished 67th in the 2004 Athens Olympic
marathon. He was a silver medallist in the 23rd Southeast Asian Gamesin the 10,000m run. He
has also won many road races in the Philippines, distance races on previous South East Asian
Games the Adidas King of the Road in South Korea and the Adidas King of the Road 2012
in Singapore.

You might also like