Philippines (PHI)

The Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation was formed in January 1911 when the country was still under American occupation. This organisation, which later became the National Olympic Committee, was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1929. The Philippines first competed at the Olympic Games in 1924, and has since missed only the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The Philippines has competed at the Olympic Winter Games of 1972, 1988, 1992, 2014, and 2018. The Philippines has won 10 Olympic medals in boxing, swimming, and track & field athletics. The country has not yet won a gold medal, and was from 2008-15 the nation with the most medals without an Olympic title, since surpassed by Malaysia, with 11 medals. However, Arianne Cerdeña won the women’s bowling event in that exhibition sport at the 1988 Olympics and Willy Wang won the men’s Wushu Nanquan & Nangun demonstration event at the 2008 Games. Both silver medals were won in boxing – by Anthony Villanueva in the 1964 featherweight class as well as by Mansueto Velasco in the 1996 light-flyweight class.