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    Lydia de Vega-Mercado was a Filipino sprinter who competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in track events like the 100m and 200m. She won numerous gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games from the early 1980s to mid 1990s, holding Philippine and Southeast Asian records. Elma Muros-Posadas was a Filipino track and field athlete who competed in long jump and heptathlon. She won 15 gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and represented the Philippines at multiple Olympics and World Championships. Eduardo Buenavista is a Filipino long distance runner who holds national records in multiple events from 3000m to marathon. He competed in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and

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    Lydia de Vega-Mercado was a Filipino sprinter who competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in track events like the 100m and 200m. She won numerous gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games from the early 1980s to mid 1990s, holding Philippine and Southeast Asian records. Elma Muros-Posadas was a Filipino track and field athlete who competed in long jump and heptathlon. She won 15 gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and represented the Philippines at multiple Olympics and World Championships. Eduardo Buenavista is a Filipino long distance runner who holds national records in multiple events from 3000m to marathon. He competed in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and

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    Lydia de Vega-Mercado was a Filipino sprinter who competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in track events like the 100m and 200m. She won numerous gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games from the early 1980s to mid 1990s, holding Philippine and Southeast Asian records. Elma Muros-Posadas was a Filipino track and field athlete who competed in long jump and heptathlon. She won 15 gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and represented the Philippines at multiple Olympics and World Championships. Eduardo Buenavista is a Filipino long distance runner who holds national records in multiple events from 3000m to marathon. He competed in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and

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    Lydia de Vega-Mercado was a Filipino sprinter who competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics in track events like the 100m and 200m. She won numerous gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and Asian Games from the early 1980s to mid 1990s, holding Philippine and Southeast Asian records. Elma Muros-Posadas was a Filipino track and field athlete who competed in long jump and heptathlon. She won 15 gold medals at Southeast Asian Games and represented the Philippines at multiple Olympics and World Championships. Eduardo Buenavista is a Filipino long distance runner who holds national records in multiple events from 3000m to marathon. He competed in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and

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    Lydia de Vega-Mercado

    Personal information

    Birth name Lydia de Vega

    Nickname(s) Diay

    Born December 12, 1964 (age 53)

    Meycauayan, Bulacan, Philippines

    Sport

    Country Philippines

    Sport Track and field (Sprint)

    Event(s) 100m, 200m, 400, Long Jumps

    Retired 1994

    De Vega first made an impact at the 1981 Southeast


    Asian (SEA) Games held in Manila with gold medal
    performances in the 200 and 400 meter events
    exceeding records set at the Asian Games. 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
    clocked 11.53 seconds.
    De Vega won the gold in the 100 meters at the SEA
    Games (1987, 1991 and 1993). She also topped the 200
    meter event in 1981, 1983, 1987 and 1993. She has twice won both the 100 and 200 meter gold in the
    Asian Athletics Championships - 1983 and 1987. She holds both Philippine and Southeast Asian records
    with her personal best of 11.28 seconds.
    De Vega was a two-time Olympian, represented the Philippines at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
    She also brought home a silver medal in the 200-meter race from the 1986 Seoul Asiad, and has once
    represented a friend for the Long Jumps and broke her record.
    In 1989 until 1991, De Vega took a break from athletics. During this period she got a degree and got
    married. She entered the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships and made a decent finish of seventh
    place.[3]
    The sprinter retired after competing at the track and field event of the 1994 Manila-Fujian Games held in
    October. She won the 100m event. She announced that she would not be competing at the upcoming
    edition of the Philippine National Games at that time.

    Elma Muros

    Personal information

    Full name Elma Muros-Posadas

    Nationality Filipino

    Born January 14, 1967 (age 51)

    Magdiwang, Romblon

    Sport

    Country Philippines

    Sport Track and field

    Event(s) Long jump, Heptathlon

    Achievements and titles

    Personal best(s) 57.57 (400 hurdles)

    Medal record[hide]

    Representing Philippines
    Women's athletics
    Asian Games
    1990 Beijing 400 m hurdles
    1994 Hiroshima Long jump
    Asian Athletics Championships
    1983 Kuwait Long jump
    1989 Delhi Long jump
    1993 Manila Long jump
    1995 Jakarta Long jump

    Muros is involved in track and field competitively as early as when she was 14 years old. At that
    time, she was scouted by local officials looking for potential athletes for the Southern Tagalog
    Regional Athletics Association sporting meet.
    Muros-Posadas won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games, a record number
    in the athletics competition which she jointly holds with Jennifer Tin Lay of Myanmar. Muros won
    eight South East Asian Games titles in the long jump the first at the age of 16 in 1983. At one
    point, she also dominated the sprints winning both the 100 and 200 metres in the 1995 Southeast
    Asian Games. She was also a competitor for the Philippines in the long jump event at the Olympic
    Games in 1984 and 1996. She represented her country at the World Championships in
    Athletics on four occasions: in the 400 m hurdles in 1991, the long jump in 1995 and 1997, and
    the 100 metres in 1997. She was also a five-time participant at the IAAF World Indoor
    Championships, competing in 1985, 1989, 1993, 1995 and 1997 in sprints and long jump. She
    was a two-time medallist at the Asian Games, taking the long jump bronze medal at the 1994
    Games as well as a 400 metres hurdles bronze medal in 1990. She won four medals in the long
    jump at the Asian Athletics Championships over the course of her career, winning silver medals
    in 1983 and 1989, then bronze medals at the 1993 and 1995 editions. She holds several Filipino
    records: 57.57 seconds for the 400 m hurdles, 5346 points for the heptathlon (set at the 1998
    Asian Games), 3:40.9 minutes for the 4×400 metres relay, 25.05 seconds for the indoor 200
    metres and 6.11 m for the indoor long jump. She was a two-time PSA Sportsman of the Year,
    winning the award in 1993 and 1995. She attended Far Eastern University in Manila.
    Since her retirement in 2001, Muros-Posadas has appeared several times on the reality television
    show Survivor Philippines. In 2011, Elma landed a role in her very own biographical and loosely-
    based independent movie directed by Paul Soriano, "Thelma", who won best director in the 30th
    Luna Awards with his direction in this movie. Elma's life and a combination of many provincial
    athletes and their lives and struggles were portrayed by famous Filipina actress, Maja Salvador,
    who won Best Actress in the 30th Luna Awards played the lead role for, "Thelma", as Thelma.
    The movie won Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography in the 30th Luna Awards.
    In 2016, Muros was reported to be working at Brent International School
    in Biñan, Laguna, University of the East and Jose Rizal University where she along with her
    husband train the youth in sports. In early 2017, Muros along with former boxer Onyok
    Velasco was tasked by the Philippine Sports Commission to aid the country's grassroots
    program.

    Eduardo Buenavista
    Personal information

    Nationality Filipino

    Born 13 October 1978 (age 39)

    Barangay Teresita, Santo Niño, South

    Cotabato, Philippines

    Height 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)

    Weight 62 kg (137 lb)

    Sport

    Sport Running

    Achievements and titles

    Personal 3000 m: 8:17.14 (2002)

    best(s) 3000 m Steeplechase: 8:40.77 (2001)

    5000 m: 13:58.43 (2002)

    10000 m: 29:02.36 (2002)

    10000 m Road: 30:20 (2005)


    Half Marathon: 1:03:42 (2005)

    Marathon: 2:18:53 (2007)

    Medal record[hide]

    Men's Athletics
    Representing
    Asian Athletics Championships
    2003 Manila 10000 m
    Southeast Asian Games
    3000 m
    2001 Kuala Lumpur
    steeplechase
    2001 Kuala Lumpur 5000 m Eduardo Buenavista (born 13 October
    1978 in Santo Niño, South Cotabato) is
    2003 Hanoi 10,000m
    a Filipino long-distance runner and two-
    2009 Vientiane marathon time Olympian. He holds the Philippine
    2003 Hanoi 5000m record for multiple long distance events.
    2005 Manila 10,000m His best marathon time is 2:18:44
    2007 Nakhon hours. He also holds the
    marathon
    Ratchasima
    Philippine 5000 metres record of 13
    2011 Palembang marathon minutes, 58 seconds, and performed
    the 10,000 metres in 29:02.36 minutes.
    "Vertek", as called by his friends and the media, finished 67th in the 2004 Athens Olympic
    marathon. He was a silver medallist in the 23rd Southeast Asian Gamesin the 10,000m run. He
    has also won many road races in the Philippines, distance races on previous South East Asian
    Games the Adidas King of the Road in South Korea and the Adidas King of the Road 2012
    in Singapore.

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