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.

History

The Philippines began participating at the Olympic Games in the 1924 Summer Olympics held at Paris, 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, José, 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 years 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.

There would be another medal drought; it was broken after 20 years (equivalent to 5 Summer Olympics) in the 2016 Summer Olympics when Hidilyn Diaz won silver at women's 53 kg weightlifting, at Rio de Janeiro. ` Among demonstration sports, the country won one gold and two bronze medals; this doesn't include the Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008 wherein the country won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals, for this was not an official Olympic demonstration sport.

In the Summer Youth Olympics, Luis Gabriel Moreno won the country's first Olympic gold medal at the mixed team event in Nanjing 2014.

List of medalists

Summer Olympics

Medal	Name	Final opponent	Event	Sport	Year	Location
	Teófilo Yldefonso	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Erich Rademacher	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	Swimming	1928 Summer	Amsterdam, Netherlands
		Yoshiyuki Tsuruta Reizo Koike	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	Swimming	1932 Summer	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 Summer	Berlin, Germany
	Anthony Villanueva	Stanislav Stepashkin Gold medal bout	Men's featherweight	Boxing	1964 Summer	Tokyo, Japan
	Leopoldo Serantes	Ivailo Marinov Semi-final	Men's light flyweight	Boxing	1988 Summer	Seoul, South Korea
	Roel Velasco	Rogelio Marcelo Semi-final	Men's light flyweight	Boxing	1992 Summer	Barcelona, Spain
	Mansueto Velasco	Daniel Petrov Gold medal bout	Men's light flyweight	Boxing	1996 Summer	Atlanta, United States
	Hidilyn Diaz	Hsu Shu-Ching Yoon Jin-hee	Women's 53 kg	Weightlifting	2016 Summer	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Medalists in demonstration sports

This doesn't include the Wushu Tournament Beijing 2008, which was not an official Olympic demonstration sport.

Medal	Name	Final opponent	Event	Sport	Year	Location
	Arianne Cerdeña	Atsuko Asai	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

Summer Youth Olympics

Medal	Name	Final opponent	Event	Sport	Year	Location
	Luis Gabriel Moreno[note 1] With Li Jiaman (China)	Cynthia Freywald Muhamad Zarif Syahiir Zolkepeli Final	Mixed team	Archery	2014 Summer Youth	Nanjing, China

Medal tally

Summer Olympics

By sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Boxing	0	2	3	5
Weightlifting	0	1	0	1
Athletics	0	0	2	2
Swimming	0	0	2	2
Total	0	3	7	10

Summer Youth Olympics

By sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Archery	1	0	0	1
Total[note 1]	1	0	0	1

Notes

1. In IOC records, this is credited as a gold medal for "mixed teams", or teams that are composed of members from more than one NOCs.

References

• Philippine Sports Commission