Asiad gold medalists named PSA Athletes of the Year
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:15:10 +0000
SPOTLIGHT falls on women’s power when the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) honors the best of 2018 next month during its Annual Awards Night on February 26 at the Manila Hotel.
For making the country proud by winning four gold medals in the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia last year, Hidilyn Diaz, Yuka Saso, the women’s golf team, and Margielyn Didal will be recognized with the prestigious Athlete of the Year Award.
Diaz topped the women’s -53kg event of weightlifting, Saso emerged individual champion in golf and steered the women’s team to the same finish, while Didal became the new toast of Philippine sports when she ruled the street skateboard competition which made its debut in the Asiad.
The four golds won by the Filipinos were the most since the quartet of Antonio Gabica, Violito Payla, Joan Tipon, and Rene Catalan won as many during the 2006 edition of the Asiad in Doha, Qatar.
This marked the first time in almost a decade the PSA will have an all-female recipient of the Athlete of the Year honor.
In 2009, pool champion Rubilen Amit, long-jump queen Marestella Torres, and the poomsae team of Rani Ann Ortega, Camille Alarilla, and Janice Lagman were also feted with the same award by the country’s oldest media organization first incepted in 1949.
Other awards will also be handed out during the event.
To be recognized are the National Sports Association of the Year, Executive of the Year, Mr. Basketball, Mr. and Ms. Volleyball, and Mr. Football.
There will also be the regular President’s Award, Major Awards, Citations, the Tony Siddayao Awards, Junior Athletes of the Year, Posthumous, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Awards.
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