The Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF) Review Committee adopted a resolution approving the automatic nomination of Olympic medalists during a virtual meeting last Tuesday.
PSHOF 2020 Chairperson and Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman William Ramirez, who headed the meeting, supported the inclusion of the “very few” medalists of the country in the Games.
“Achieving a medal from the most prestigious Games in history is something worth recognizing for a lifetime. They deserve it even without the process of someone voluntarily proving it for them,” said Ramirez.
Akiko Thomson Guevara, representing the Philippine Olympian Association in the Review Committee, volunteered to produce the names of all the country’s Olympic medalists in the next meeting.
There are only 10 Filipino medalists so far since the country took part in Summer Olympics in 1924.
Teofilo Yldefonso was the only Filipino athlete to win a back-to-back Olympic medal in 1928 and 1932.
The PSHOF Review Committee seeks to have the Olympic medalists honored to ensure that they are never forgotten.
Nominations for the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF) 2020 are extended until the end of January 2021.
