The 23-year old  Filipino-Canadian swimmer is a former member of the Canadian national team until 2022. She has represented Canada at the Olympics and World championships. She has switched federations and now part of Philippine Swimming team. Sanchez won two medals at the 2020 Olympics including the silver medal as part of the Canadian team in the 4x100 m freestyle relay. Representing Philippines, she competed in the Asian Games and in the World Aquatics Championships 2024in Doha. Sanc... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-kayla-sanchez.html

The 25-year old swimmer is a medalist in the Southeast Asian Games winning bronze medals in the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia in butterfly events.The California born Hatch who earlier announced his retirement in 2021, was tapped to fill in the Philippines’ universality quota in swimming alongside Kayla Sanchez for the Paris Olympics.  He will compete in the 100 meter butterfly which is scheduled on August 2, at around 5 p.m. (Manila time). ... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-jarod-hatch.html

 The 20-year old Sarno qualified to the Paris Olympic Games after securing one of the top ten weightlifters in the women's 71kg division based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings (OQR). Sarno competed in the World Championships, Asian Games and IWF World Cup.  She is a two-time Southeast Asian Games gold medalist - 2021 SEA Games (71kg) and 2023 SEA Games (71kg) and gold medalist in the 2020 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. This is Sarno's Olympic debut and wil... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-vanessa-sarno.html

 The 26-year old Ceniza qualified to the Paris Olympic Games after securing one of the top ten weightlifters in the men's 61kg division based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings (OQR). Ceniza competed in the World Championships, Asian Games and IWF World Cup.  He is a silver medalist in Southeast Asian Games - 2019 SEA Games (55kg) and 2023 SEA Games (61kg). He also bagged a bronze medal in IWF World Cup in 2020. This is Ceniza's Olympic debut and will see action on August 7 a... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-john-ceniza.html

 The 25-year old Ando qualified to the Paris Olympic Games after securing one of the top ten weightlifters in the women's 59kg division based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings (OQR). This is Ando's second consecutive appearance in the Summer Olympics following her Tokyo Olympics debut in 2020 where she competed in the women's 64kg division. Ando competed in the World Championships, Asian Games and IWF World Cup.  She is a bronze medalist in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games ... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-elreen-ando.html

 Ardina is a Filipino professional golfer who won numerous amateur tournaments in Asia and represented the Philippines at the Espirito Santo Trophy (World Amateur Team Championships) in 2006 and 2010.  Her 2006 appearance, at age 12, made her the youngest player ever to compete at the World Amateur Team Championships. She won the Thailand Singha-Sat LPGA Championship in 2014 and also competed in  LPGA Tour of the same year. In the 2022, she snared the Cooper Rock Championship title. &nbs... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-dottie-ardina.html

You're not a gymnastic fan if you don't know him. He is Caloy Yulo. The first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in floor exercise (bronze medal) in 2018, and the first-ever gold medalist for the same apparatus in 2019.Yulo is the most decorated male gymnast from Southeast Asia today winning gold medals at the Asian Championships and in the Southeast Asian Games. He also won medals at the World Championships and at the FIG World Cup se... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-carlos-edriel-yulo.html

The 21-year old Finnegan has qualified for the Paris Olympics after finishing among the 14 highest-ranking eligible athletes in the women’s all-around qualification at the 52nd Artistic Gymnastics World C'ships 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium. She will represent the Philippines along with Levi Ruivivar and Emma Malabuyo in the Women's Artistic Gymnastics this July.  Finnegan was born in the United States and was a member of United States' women's national gymnastics team from 2019 to 2021 and was part o... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-aleah-finnegan.html

 The 21-year old Malabuyo started representing the Philippines in gymnastics in 2023. She qualified for 2024 Paris Summer Olympics through the 2024 Asian Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Tashkent, Uzbekistan where she placed 3rd in the Individual All-Around event.The California born gymnast was part of the United States' gold-winning junior team at the 2016 L'International Gymnix tournament, where she earned the bronze medal in the all-around competition, as well as two gold medals on balance beam and fl... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-emma-malabuyo.html

 The 28-year old Marcial was the first Filipino boxer to punch a ticket to Paris Olympics. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist (M75kg) earned an outright berth to the Olympics after defeating Syria’s Ahmad Ghousoon in the semifinals at the 19th Asian Games. Aside from the Olympic bronze medal, he also won a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in the middleweight division. He is also a SEA Games gold medalist and ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships medalist. In July 202... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-eumir-marcial-boxing.html

 The 18-year old Ruivivar is a Filipino-American artistic gymnast who qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics through the 2024 FIG World Cup series.Born and raised in the United States, the young gymnast represented the United States in her junior stint until in 2023 when she decided to switch federations to banner the Philippine flag instead. Ruivivar had earned many achievements from her US stint. Representing the Philippines, she won a silver medal for uneven bars in the FIG World Cup and a bro... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-levi-ruivivar.html

The 25-year old Filipino-American will see action in the women's 400m hurdles in the 2024 Paris Olympics. She qualified for this event after placing 39th in the World Athletics Road to Paris 24 Rankings. The Top 40 athletes at the end of qualification period (June 30) qualify for the said event. The former track and field star at Duke University, has reset the Philippines’ hurdles record multiple times in the past (600 meters Philippine National Indoor Record & 100m Hurdles) Hoffman is one o... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-lauren-hoffman.html

The 32-year old Petecio will see action for her second consecutive Olympic appearance in boxing. She qualified in the women's featherweight (57kg) division after winning a quota place at the 2024 World Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 held in Busto Arsizio, Italy.The Davao del Sur boxer won a silver medal in the inaugural women's featherweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Filipino woman to win an Olympic medal in boxing. She also won a silver medal at the 2014 World Champio... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-nesthy-petecio.html

 The Alor Setar, Kedah-born Lee is one of the most decorated badminton players of Malaysia. He won the gold medal in the men's singles at the 2022 Badminton Asia Championships and the 2019 SEA Games both held in Manila, Philippines.The 6-foot-1 badminton enthusiast is a multiple medalist in the Asia Team Championships, Thomas Cup, Sudirman Cup (Mixed Team) and the World Junior Championships. He also competed in the Asian Games and in the Commonwealth Games. Other than these, he won numerous m... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-malaysia-lee-zii-jia.html

The 29-year old Bacyadan is a martial artist engaged  in wushu, vovinam and boxing. Bacyadan has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris through winning her quota bout at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 held in Thailand.Bacdayan saw action in wushu (sanda) where she bagged silver medals in women's 65kg class at the inaugural Sanda Asian Cup in 2017 held in Foshan, China and at the 2017 World Wushu Championships in Kazan.The Tanudan, Kalinga native made history after becoming t... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-hergie-bacyadan.html

The Filipino hurdler, who was raised in Spain by adoptive Spanish parents, will compete in the Men's 110m hurdles. He qualified in this event after he managed to land inside the Top 40 of the World Athletics Road to Paris Rankings. The 22-year old Cabang started his athletic career in 2017 where he bagged a gold medal in Durango, Spain. And then he first competed in the Philippines in 2022.Cabang represented the Philippines in the 2023 Cambodia Southeast Asian Games where he won a bronze medal in the Men's ... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-john-tolentino-cabang.html

Bianca Pagdanganan is making her second consecutive appearance in the Summer Olympics. The 26-year old Pagdanganan is a medalist in the 2018 Asian Games, winning a bronze in the women's individual event, and a gold medal in the team event with Yuka Saso and Lois Kaye Go.  The Quezon City native, finished in 43rd place in the Women’s Individual Stroke Play event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.  Aside from Asian Games and the Olympics, she won two gold medals in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games fo... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-bianca-pagdanganan.html

 The Terengganu-born Azizulhasni Awang will see action in his 5th appearance in the Summer Olympics. Awang is one of the most decorated cyclist who won gold medal in 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics (Men's Keirin) and silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (Keirin).  The 36-year old Awang started competing in the summer Olympiad in 2008. Aside from the Olympics, his other achievements are silver medal at the 2009 World Championships (Sprint... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-malaysia-azizulhasni-awang.html

 Aira Villegas is one of the five Filipino boxers that will compete in Paris Olympics. She has qualified in the women's flyweight (50kg) event after winning the Olympic quota place at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament-1 held in Busto Arsizio, Italy. The Tacloban boxer credits her elder brother, Rominick, for introducing her to the sport, who was then a scholar of the provincial government-managed Leyte Sports Academy and now a coach of the school’s boxing stable. The 28-year o... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-aira-villegas.html

The 27-year old Kiyomi Watanabe will compete for the second time in the Summer Olympics after her first stint in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Watanabe qualfies in the women's 63kg division via continental quota in Judo for Paris Olympics.  She remains the lone female judoka to compete in Olympics following John Baylon, Jerry Dino, Benjie McMurray, Tomohiko Hoshina, and Kodo Nakano. Watanabe started competing for Team Philippines in 2011 SEA Games. She is a multiple gold medalist in SEA Games (in ... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-kiyomi-watanabe.html

Joanie Delgaco became Philippines' first female rower to qualify for the Olympics after she clinched one of the five quota places in the women’s single sculls during the World Rowing Asian and Oceania Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea last April.  The 26-year old rower is the fourth Filipino rower Olympian following Edgardo Maerina (1988 Seoul Games), Benjamin Tolentino Jr. (2000 Sydney Games), and Cris Nievarez (2022 Tokyo Games). A former setter of Camarines Sur volleyball ... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/team-philippines-joanie-delgaco.html

There are 12 athletes from Southeast Asia that will compete in weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. These are the following: Eko Yuli Irawan of Indonesia (M61)Rizki Juniansyah of Indonesia (M73)Nurul Akmal of Indonesia (W+81)Aniq Kasdan of Malaysia (M61)John Ceniza of the Philippines (M61) Elreen Ando of the Philippines (W59)Vanessa Sarno of the Philippines (W71)Theerapong Silachai of Thailand (M61)Weeraphon Wichuma of Thailand (M73)Surodchana Khambao of Thailand (W49)... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/sea-weightlifters-in-2024-paris-olympics.html

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The 2nd SEA Open Water Swimming Championships 2024 was held in Bali, Indonesia from June 28 to 30. 5km Events  Girls Events  A. Age Category 14-15 years oldGold: Elisabeth Calmels (Thailand) 01.06.41.7Silver: Kullanit Theeka (Thailand) 01.10.58.2Bronze: Feni Anggia (Indonesia) 01.11.20.4 B. Age Category 16-17 Years OldGold: Thitirat Charoensup (Thailand) 01.05.13Silver: Naurah Chalisa (Indonesia) 01.11.20,6Bronze: Diva Prissilia (Indonesia) 01.11.29,1 C. Age category 18-19 years o... Read More at: https://southeastasiansportsnews.blogspot.com/2024/07/2nd-sea-open-water-swimming.html