The Tokyo Olympics Results for Team Philippines tallied the best-ever medal haul of 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze medal for the Filipino nation.
The four medals tally is the country’s best showing since it first participated in the Summer Games in 1924. Before the Tokyo Olympics, the Philippines had a total of 10 medals – 3 silver and 7 bronze.
The Philippines ranked in joint 47th spot among 86 nations in the medal standings, the best performance for a Southeast Asian nation.
Nineteen Filipino athletes represented the country in the quadrennial meeting of nations in Japan from July 13 to August 8, 2021, resulting in the historic gold in the weightlifting event and the 3 other medals from the national boxing team.
The Tokyo Olympics gold medal was won by weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz in the Women’s 55kg. weight division, the first-ever event won by the Philippines.
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The first silver medal was won by boxer Nesthy Petecio in the Women’s Featherweight division.
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The second silver medal was won by boxer Carlo Paalam in the Men’s Flyweight category.
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The bronze medal was won by male boxer Eumir Marcial in the Men’s Middleweight division.
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During the Tokyo Olympics last weekend, Filipina golfer Yuka Saso finished in joint 9th place of the Women’s Individual rankings while Bianca Pagdanganan was at joint 43rd spot.
READ about Yuka Saso and Bianca Pagdanganan’s Olympics journey here.
Following is a tally of the performance of the 19 national athletes from the Philippines who participated in the Tokyo Olympics:
ATHLETICS
Ernest John “EJ” Obiena (Athletics – Men’s Pole Vault)
- Reached the Finals, Finished Top 11 Overall
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Kristina Knott (Athletics – Women’s 200m)
- Competed in the heats, Finished 37th Overall
BOXING
Nesthy Petecio (Boxing – Women’s Featherweight)
- Reached the Finals, won Silver
Irish Magno (Boxing – Women’s Flyweight)
- Reached Round of 16
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Carlo Paalam (Boxing – Men’s Flyweight)
- Reached Finals, won Silver
Eumir Marcial (Boxing – Men’s Middleweight)
- Reached semifinals, won Bronze
GOLF
Juvic Pagunsan (Men’s Golf)
- Finished, 55th Overall
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Bianca Pagdanganan (Women’s Golf)
- Finished, 43rd Overall
Yuka Saso (Women’s Golf)
- Finished, 9th Overall
GYMNASTICS
Carlos Edriel Yulo (Gymnastics – Artistic)
- Reached Finals, 4th place Overall in Vault Final
READ the story here.
JUDO
Kiyomi Watanabe (Judo – Women’s -63kg)
- Competed in preliminaries
ROWING
Cris Nievarez (Rowing – Men’s Single Sculls)
- Final D, 23rd Overall
READ the story here.
SHOOTING
Jayson Valdez (Shooting – Men’s Air Rifle 10m)
- Competed in qualifiers, 44th place
SKATEBOARDING
Margielyn Didal (Skateboard – Women’s Street)
- Reached Finals, 7th Overall
SWIMMING
Remedy Rule (Swimming – Women’s 100m, 200m Butterfly)
- 100m heat, Top 2
- Reached Semifinals of 200m, 15th Overall
Luke Gebbie (Swimming – Men’s 50m and 100m Freestyle)
- Established new Philippine record in 50m freestyle
- 100m freestyle, 23rd Overall
READ the story here.
TAEKWONDO
Kurt Barbosa (Taekwondo – Men’s -58kg)
- Reached Round of 16
WEIGHTLIFTING
Hidilyn Diaz (Weightlifting – Women’s 55kg)
- Gold, established 2 Olympic Records
Elreen Ando (Weightlifting – Women’s 64kg)
- Competed, 7th Overall
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