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The Philippines first sent athletes to compete at the Olympic Games in 1924, making it the first country from Southeast Asia to compete and win a medal. The nation has competed at every Summer Olympic Games since then except the 1980 Summer Olympics, when they joined the American-led boycott. Filipino athletes have also competed at the Winter Olympic Games on six different occasions since 1972. The Philippines is the first nation in the tropics to ever participate in the Winter Olympic Games.

Filipino athletes have won a total of fourteen Olympic medals, with boxing as the top medal-producing sport. After Mongolia claimed its first gold medal at Beijing 2008, the Philippines used to hold the record for the most medals without a gold, until weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz topped the podium with the country's first gold at Tokyo 2020.

The Philippine Olympic Committee was founded in 1911 and duly recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1929.[1]

Medal table[]

Medals by Summer Games[]

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Paris 1924 1 0 0 0 0
Amsterdam 1928 4 0 0 1 1 32
Los Angeles 1932 8 0 0 3 3 25
Berlin 1936 31 0 0 1 1 30
London 1948 24 0 0 0 0
Helsinki 1952 25 0 0 0 0
Melbourne 1956 39 0 0 0 0
Rome 1960 40 0 0 0 0
Tokyo 1964 47 0 1 0 1 30
Mexico City 1968 49 0 0 0 0
Munich 1972 53 0 0 0 0
Montreal 1976 14 0 0 0 0
Moscow 1980 Did not participate
Los Angeles 1984 19 0 0 0 0
Seoul 1988 31 0 0 1 1 46
Barcelona 1992 26 0 0 1 1 53
Atlanta 1996 12 0 1 0 1 61
Sydney 2000 20 0 0 0 0
Athens 2004 16 0 0 0 0
Beijing 2008 15 0 0 0 0
London 2012 11 0 0 0 0
Rio de Janeiro 2016 13 0 1 0 1 69
Tokyo 2020 19 1 2 1 4 50
Total 1 5 8 14

Medals by Winter Games[]

Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
Sapporo 1972 2 0 0 0 0
Innsbruck 1976 Did not participate
Lake Placid 1980
Sarajevo 1984
Calgary 1988 1 0 0 0 0
Albertville 1992 1 0 0 0 0
Lillehammer 1994 Did not participate
Nagano 1998
Salt Lake City 2002
Torino 2006
Vancouver 2010
Sochi 2014 1 0 0 0 0
Pyeongchang 2018 2 0 0 0 0
Beijing 2022 1 0 0 0 0
Total 1 5 8 14

Medals by Summer Sport[]

Sports Gold Silver Bronze Total
Weightlifting 1 1 0 2
Boxing 0 4 4 8
Athletics 0 0 2 2
Swimming 0 0 2 2
Total 1 5 8 14

Medal winners[]

Games Medal Athlete Sport Discipline
Amsterdam 1928 Bronze Teófilo Yldefonso Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke
Los Angeles 1932 Bronze Simeon Toribio Athletics Men's high jump
Los Angeles 1932 Bronze José Villanueva Boxing Men's bantamweight
Los Angeles 1932 Bronze Teófilo Yldefonso Swimming Men's 200 m breaststroke
Berlin 1936 Bronze Miguel White Athletics Men's 400 m hurdles
Tokyo 1964 Silver Anthony Villanueva Boxing Men's featherweight
Seoul 1988 Bronze Leopoldo Serantes Boxing Men's light flyweight
Barcelona 1992 Bronze Roel Velasco Boxing Men's light flyweight
Atlanta 1996 Silver Mansueto Velasco Boxing Men's light flyweight
Rio de Janeiro 2016 Silver Hidilyn Diaz Weightlifting Women's 53 kg
Tokyo 2020 Gold Hidilyn Diaz Weightlifting Women's 55 kg
Tokyo 2020 Silver Carlo Paalam Boxing Men's flyweight
Tokyo 2020 Silver Nesthy Petecio Boxing Women's featherweight
Tokyo 2020 Bronze Eumir Marcial Boxing Men's middleweight

References[]

  1. IOC. Philippines. Retrieved on 12 August 2011.
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