Philippines at the 1951 Asian Games - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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...

participated in the first ever Asian Games

1951 Asian Games

The 1951 Asian Games, officially known as the First Asian Games, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Delhi, India from 4 to 11 March 1951. The Games received names like First Asiad and 1951 Asiad by the president of the organising committee Anthony de Mello...

held in New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. With 3 gold medals, this country is ranked 5th in the medal tally and 3rd place in the over-all medal count.

Medal table

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Gold

Athletics

Andres Franco

Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

Francisco Calilan

Andres dela Cruz

Genaro Fernandez

Jose Gochango

Rafael Hechanova

Moro Lorenzo

Luis Francisco "Chitong" Lorenzo , better known as "Moro" Lorenzo and also as Luis F. Lorenzo, Sr., was a former Filipino basketball player and corporate executive. Lorenzo played college ball for the Ateneo de Manila, before moving on to play for Philippine Airlines in the Manila Industrial and...

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...

Antonio Martinez

Lauro Mumar

Lauro "Larry" Mumar , is a former Filipino basketball player and later served as the national team head coach of India and the Philippines...

Ignacio Ramos

Ignacio Ramos (basketball)

Ignacio "Ning" Ramos is a former Filipino basketball player and head coach. He was part of the Philippine national basketball team that captured the gold medal at the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India...

Meliton Santos

Mariano Tolentino

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...

Jacinto Cayco

Silver

Swimming

Sotero Alcantara

Serafin Villanueva

Mohammad Mala (2 silver medals)

Weightlifting
Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...

Rodrigo Del Rosario

Bronze

Athletics

Aurelio Amante

Swimming

Sotero Alcantara

Mohammad Mala

Edilberto Bonus

Serafin Villanueva

Weightlifting

Landero Pedro

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