Archive for the ‘Swimming’ Category

By Dante Navarro | The Philippine Star

SINGAPORE – Patricia Llena also ended up the way Jessie Lacuna finished in the swimming final – out of the medal race – as she wound up fifth in the girls’ 63-kg division in weightlifting in the first Youth Olympic Games at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall here last night. Read the rest of this entry »

By Olmin Leyba | The PhilStar

MANILA , Philippines – Terenzo Bozzone of New Zealand will return to defend his title in what’s expected to be a bigger, more exciting, and safer second Cobra Energy Drink Ironman 70.3 Philippines on Aug. 22 at the Camarines Sur Watersports Complex in Pili, Camarines Sur. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Vicki Manalo Draves would’ve been a shoo-in as an inductee at the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame enshrinement rites in the Manila Hotel recently if she only competed for the Philippines, not the US, at the 1948 London Olympics where the half-Filipina, half-English star became the first female to win two diving events in the same Olympics and the first Asian-American to hit paydirt in the Summer Games. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Amateur Swimming Association president Mark Joseph faces a court case for his alleged malicious conduct, disallowing a group of Filipino swimmers to compete in the recent 43rd Sabah Age Group Swimming Championships in Sabah, Malaysia.

A case of violation of Republic Act 7682 has been filed against Joseph before Prosecutor Raniel Cruz at the Quezon City regional trial court for Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Jessie Lacuña bested Japanese Satoshi Watanabe and Singaporean Rainer Ng to notch his third gold medal in the Singapore Age Group Swimming Championships in Singapore last Sunday.

Lacuña reigned in the 200-meter fly in the boys’ 15-17 years old category, clocking two minutes and 3.01 seconds, beating Watanabe and Ng, who came in second and third in 2:04.65 and 2:05.17, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »