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The PSA Sportsman of the Year
Athlete of the Year
Athlete of the Year is an award given by various sports organizations for the athlete whom they have determined to be deserving of such recognition....

is given by the Philippine Sportswriters Association to the best Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

athletes annually. It is one of the most prestigious sport-related awards in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. Notable athletes who were given this award include Rafael Nepomuceno

Rafael Nepomuceno

Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno is a six-time World Bowling Champion Filipino bowler. He has won the World Cup of Bowling four times...

, Eric Buhain

Eric Buhain

Joseph Eric Buhain is the chairman of the Philippines' Games and Amusement Board.Buhain is also popular among Filipinos as a champion swimmer, where he hauled several Southeast Asian Games medals to the Philippines....

, Lydia de Vega

Lydia de Vega

Lydia de Vega-Mercado is a former athlete from the Philippines, was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s. As Asia's sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal in the 100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad and duplicated the feat in the 1986 Seoul Asiad where she was clocked 11.53...

, Efren Reyes

Efren Reyes

Efren Manalang Reyes is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" and "the Magician".-Early life:Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954...

and Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

PSA Sportsman of the Year awardees

Year	Winner	Sport
1976	Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno	Bowling Bowling Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
1977	Not awarded
1978	Not awarded
1979	Not awarded
1980	Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno	Bowling
1981	Not awarded
1982	Lydia de Vega Lydia de Vega Lydia de Vega-Mercado is a former athlete from the Philippines, was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s. As Asia's sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal in the 100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad and duplicated the feat in the 1986 Seoul Asiad where she was clocked 11.53...	Track and Field Track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
1983	Frank Cedeño Frank Cedeno Frank Cedeno is a Filipino-English former boxer. Cedeno held the WBC Flyweight title from 27 September 1983 to 18 January 1984. In a September 1983 World Boxing Council title fight, Cedeno knocked out Charlie Magri in the sixth round to claim the Flyweight title.-External links:*...	Professional Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
1983	Bong Coo	Bowling
1984	Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno	Bowling
1984	Dodie Boy Peñalosa Dodie Boy Peñalosa Diosdado "Dodie Boy" Peñalosa is a retired Filipino boxer and a former IBF champion in the light flyweight and flyweight classes.-Professional career:...	Professional Boxing
1985	Dodie Boy Peñalosa Dodie Boy Peñalosa Diosdado "Dodie Boy" Peñalosa is a retired Filipino boxer and a former IBF champion in the light flyweight and flyweight classes.-Professional career:...	Professional Boxing
1985	Joann Chan	Archery Archery Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
1986	Ramon Brobio	Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
	Lydia de Vega Lydia de Vega Lydia de Vega-Mercado is a former athlete from the Philippines, was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s. As Asia's sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal in the 100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad and duplicated the feat in the 1986 Seoul Asiad where she was clocked 11.53...	Track and Field
	Bong Coo	Bowling
1987	Lydia de Vega Lydia de Vega Lydia de Vega-Mercado is a former athlete from the Philippines, was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s. As Asia's sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal in the 100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad and duplicated the feat in the 1986 Seoul Asiad where she was clocked 11.53...	Track and Field
1987	Eric Buhain Eric Buhain Joseph Eric Buhain is the chairman of the Philippines' Games and Amusement Board.Buhain is also popular among Filipinos as a champion swimmer, where he hauled several Southeast Asian Games medals to the Philippines....	Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
1988	Leopoldo Serrantes	Amateur Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
1988	Ariane Cerdena	Bowling
1989	Luisito Espinosa Luisito Espinosa Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....	Professional Boxing
1986	Frankie Miñoza Frankie Miñoza Frankie Miñoza is a Filipino professional golfer.Miñoza has won a number of events in Asia and Japan, but has spent most of his prime, and had his most notable success, on the Japan Golf Tour...	Golf
	Luisito Espinosa Luisito Espinosa Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....	Professional Boxing
	Roberto Jalnaiz Roberto Jalnaiz Roberto Jalnaiz is a retired amateur boxer from the Philippines, who won the gold medal at the 1990 Asian Games in the men's bantamweight division. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988 and 1992.Jalnaiz was the only Filipino gold medalist in the 11th Asian Games...	Amateur Boxing
1991	Eric Buhain Eric Buhain Joseph Eric Buhain is the chairman of the Philippines' Games and Amusement Board.Buhain is also popular among Filipinos as a champion swimmer, where he hauled several Southeast Asian Games medals to the Philippines....	Swimming
1992	Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno	Bowling
1993	Elma Muros Elma Muros Elma Muros-Posadas is the Philippines' Long Jump Queen and Iron Lady. Now retired, Filipina track and field he won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games....	Track and Field
1994	Mansueto “Onyok” Velasco	Amateur Boxing
	Elias Recaido Elias Recaido Elias Recaido is a retired boxer from the Philippines, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Men's Flyweight division by Cuba's eventual gold medalist Maikro Romero . He won a bronze medal at the 1990...	Amateur Boxing
	Reynaldo Gallido	Amateur Boxing
1995	Elma Muros Elma Muros Elma Muros-Posadas is the Philippines' Long Jump Queen and Iron Lady. Now retired, Filipina track and field he won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games....	Track and Field
1996	Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno	Bowling
1997	Pia Adelle Reyes	Gymnastics Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
1997	Gerry Peñalosa Gerry Peñalosa Geronimo Peñalosa , more commonly known as Gerry Peñalosa, is a retired Filipino professional boxer....	Professional Boxing
1998	Frankie Miñoza Frankie Miñoza Frankie Miñoza is a Filipino professional golfer.Miñoza has won a number of events in Asia and Japan, but has spent most of his prime, and had his most notable success, on the Japan Golf Tour...	Golf
1998	Luisito Espinosa Luisito Espinosa Luisito Pio Espinosa is a retired boxer from the Philippines who won World titles in two different weight divisions....	Professional Boxing
1999	Efren “Bata” Reyes Efren Reyes Efren Manalang Reyes is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" and "the Magician".-Early life:Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954...	Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
2000	Dorothy Delasin Dorothy Delasin Dorothy Delasin is a Filipino-American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.Delasin was born in Lubbock, Texas and grew up in San Francisco, California. She had dual American and Filipino citizenship but gave it up sometime before 1999. She had a strong amateur career, wining both the U.S. Girls'...	Golf
2001	Efren “Bata” Reyes Efren Reyes Efren Manalang Reyes is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" and "the Magician".-Early life:Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954...	Billiards
2001	Dorothy Delasin Dorothy Delasin Dorothy Delasin is a Filipino-American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.Delasin was born in Lubbock, Texas and grew up in San Francisco, California. She had dual American and Filipino citizenship but gave it up sometime before 1999. She had a strong amateur career, wining both the U.S. Girls'...	Golf
2002	Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...	Professional Boxing
2002	Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski Mikaela María Antonia Cojuangco-Jaworski, , better known simply as Mikee Cojuangco or Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, is a Chinese Filipino equestrianne, local television host and actress from the Philippines...	Equestrian Sports Equestrianism Equestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...
2003	Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...	Professional Boxing
2003	CJ Suarez	Bowling
2004	Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...	Professional Boxing
2004	Jennifer Rosales Jennifer Rosales Jennifer Rosales is a Filipino professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Rosales was born in Manila, Philippines. She won the Philippine Ladies Amateur Golf Championship five times in a row from 1994 to 1998...	Golf
2005	Team Philippines (2005 SEA Games) Philippines at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games The Philippines hosted the 2005 Southeast Asian Games under the IOC country code PHI. This is the third time the country has hosted the biennial meet. Team Philippines bagged 113 golds placing them 1st overall in the medal tally, 26 golds ahead of Thailand. This is the most number the gold medals...	Various Sports
2006	Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...	Professional Boxing
	Joan Tipon Joan Tipon Joan Tipon is an amateur boxer from the Philippines who won gold at the 2006 Doha Asian Games in the Bantamweight division...	Amateur Boxing
	Violito Payla Violito Payla Violito Payla is an amateur boxer from the Philippines best known to win the Asian Games 2006 at flyweight.At the 2002 Asian Games he beat Tulashboy Doniyorov but lost to Noman Karim...	Amateur Boxing
	Ronato Alcano Ronato Alcano Ronato Alcano , is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Ronnie Calamba" and "the Volcano".-Career history:...	Billiards
	Antonio Gabica	Billiards
	Efren “Bata” Reyes Efren Reyes Efren Manalang Reyes is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" and "the Magician".-Early life:Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954...	Billiards
	Biboy Rivera	Bowling
	Rene Catalan	Wushu Wushu (sport) The sport of wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was created in the People's Republic of China after 1949, in an attempt to nationalize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts...
2007	Nonito Donaire Nonito Donaire Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...	Professional Boxing
2007	Miguel Molina Miguel Molina (swimmer) Miguel Molina is a swimmer from the Philippines. He represented the country in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Attended St. Mary's International School in Tokyo.-References:*...	Swimming
2008	Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...	Professional Boxing
2009	Rubilen Amit	Billiards
	Marestella Torres Marestella Torres Marestella Torres is a Filipino long jumper.Torres finished fourth at the 2002 Asian Championships and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships. She also competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. She also participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China...	Athletics (Long Jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point... )
	Rani Ann Ortega	Taekwondo Taekwondo Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"... (Poomsae)
	Camille Alarilla	Taekwondo (Poomsae)
	Janice Lagman	Taekwondo (Poomsae)
2010	Francisco Bustamante Francisco Bustamante Francisco Bustamante is a Filipino professional pocket billiards player from Tarlac, and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion., nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the film of the same name, and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.-Early life:Bustamante is the...	Billiards
	Dennis Orcollo	Billiards
	Biboy Rivera	Bowling
	Rey Saludar	Amateur Boxing

Special awards

1997: Hall of Fame
- Paeng Nepomuceno, bowling
Athlete Of The Century
- Paeng Nepomuceno, bowling
1999: Athletes of the Millennium
- Carlos Loyzaga
  Carlos Loyzaga
  Carlos M. Loyzaga is a former Filipino basketball player and coach. He led the Philippine National team to a Bronze Medal finish in the 1954 FIBA World Championship. The Philippines third place finish remains the highest rank of any Asian team in the history of the tournament...
  
  , basketball
- Paeng Nepomuceno, bowling
- Bong Coo, bowling
- Pancho Villa, professional boxing
- Gabriel Elorde
  Gabriel Elorde
  Gabriel "Flash" Elorde was a Filipino professional boxer. He was born and raised in the town of Bogo, Cebu....
  
  , professional boxing
- Onyok Velasco, amateur boxing
- Eugene Torre, chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
- Teófilo Yldefonso
  Teofilo Yldefonso
  Teófilo E. Yldefonzo was a Filipino swimmer in the breaststroke. He is the first Filipino to win an Olympic medal, and the only Filipino to win multiple medals.He was born in Piddig, Ilocos Norte.-Athlete:...
  
  , swimming
- Lydia de Vega
  Lydia de Vega
  Lydia de Vega-Mercado is a former athlete from the Philippines, was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s. As Asia's sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal in the 100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad and duplicated the feat in the 1986 Seoul Asiad where she was clocked 11.53...
  
  , track and field
- Felicisimo Ampon
  Felicisimo Ampon
  Felicisimo Ampon was a tennis player from the Philippines. He is considered to be the greatest Filipino tennis player in history, and at only five feet tall, was once considered the best tennis player in the world, pound for pound.He represented the country in several Davis Cup competitions for...
  
  , tennis
2006: Lifetime Achievement Award
- Florencio Campomanes
  Florencio Campomanes
  Florencio Campomanes was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer.- Education :...
  
  , chess
2006: Hall of Fame
- Eugene Torre, chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
2008: Hall of Fame
- Manny Pacquiao
  Manny Pacquiao
  Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
  
  , professional boxing
2009: Athlete of the Decade
- Manny Pacquiao
  Manny Pacquiao
  Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
  
  , professional boxing
2010: Hall of Fame
- Efren “Bata” Reyes
  Efren Reyes
  Efren Manalang Reyes is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion. Reyes is considered by many to be the greatest all-around pool player in the history of the game. He is affectionately nicknamed "Bata" and "the Magician".-Early life:Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954...
  
  , billiards
- Florencio Campomanes
  Florencio Campomanes
  Florencio Campomanes was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer.- Education :...
  
  , chess

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