National Capital Region pulled off another sweep of top honors in the elementary and high school divisions in officially claiming the 2013 Palarong Pambansa overall championship Saturday.
SO ANOTHER Palarong Pambansa will come and go. The athletes will go home richer and wiser having survived not only the competition but the difficulties of travel and living away from comfort zones. There were reports of food poisoning and other difficulties but this is to be expected when throngs of humanity descend on a place.
National Capital Region all but wrapped up yet another Palarong Pambansa overall championship yesterday with its swimming wonder girls Catherine Bondad and Regina Erin Castrillo each pulling off electrifying seven-of-seven gold medal finishes like Central Luzon’s Rafael Barreto at the San Lorenzo Teves Aquatics Center here.
WUSHU, billiards and futsal will be played as demonstration sports for the first time in this year’s Palarong Pambansa.
NATIONAL youth mainstays and Palarong Pambansa standouts banner the Philippine team competing in the 36th Southeast Asia Age Group Swimming Championship from June 1 to 3 in Palembang, Indonesia.
Swimming marvel Axel Toni Ngui of National Capital Region went into overdrive yesterday, completing a perfect seven-of-seven in the pool even as teammate Maureen Emily Schrijvers claimed the sprint double athletics in the penultimate day of the Palarong Pambansa here.
There are three major reasons behind National Capital Region’s juggernaut in the swimming competitions of the Palarong Pambansa here.
Bianca Roxas-Chua Gotuaco of the National Capital Region and Karl Kristian Mari of Central Visayas pulled off record-breaking wins in archery yesterday even as NCR sustained its excellence in swimming halfway through the 2012 Palarong Pambansa here.
National Capital Region sank the opposition in the swimming competition as even as it made strong forays on various fronts yesterday in the Palarong Pambansa here.
President Aquino opened this year’s Palarong Pambansa here on Monday by discussing his administration’s sports road map designed to prepare athletes for the international sports arena with the right training and equipment.
Defending champion National Capital Region started to assert itself in one of its favorite events with four gymnastics golds yesterday even as West Visayas raised its triumphant haul to seven in athletics on the second day of the Palarong Pambansa here.
A record fell in a dramatic first day of the Palarong Pambansa here yesterday.
The town built around a gulf that used to be the runway for World War 2 fighter planes serves as launch pad in the annual search for the country’s future top athletes from the public schools starting here today.
