The Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) is awarded National Sports Association of the Year for its role in the country's historic 2024 Olympic success, led by Carlos Yulo's double gold medal win in vault and floor exercise. This marks the first time in 60 years that multiple Filipino gymnasts qualified for the Olympics.
The 62-year-old federation was responsible for giving the country an extremely memorable 2024 behind the first-ever double gold medals Carlos Yulo won at the Paris 2024 Olympics . The 24-year-old gymnast from Leveriza in Manila won the men’s vault and floor exercise for the Philippines’ historic feat in a single Olympic participation.
History was made when the stunning trio of Aleah Finnegan, Emma Malabuyo, and Levi Jung-Ruivivar also represented the country in the 33rd edition of the Summer Games. It marked the first time in 60 years of Philippine participation in Olympic gymnasts that multiple athletes qualified for the tough sport since Evelyn Magluyan and Maria Luisa Floro wore the country’s tcolors in Tokyo 1964. For a remarkable 2024 that saw its years of nurturing talent finally bore fruit, the GAP is the hands down choice as the National Sports Association of the Year in the San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association Awards Night at the grand ballroom of the Manila Hotel. Together with GAP, Yulo takes centerstage in the January 27 gala co-presented by ArenaPlus, MediaQuest and Cignal as the well-deserved Athlete of the Year. This is the first time the gymnastics association under the care of its president. Cynthia Carrion-Norton, is being recognized as NSA of the Year by the oldest media organization in the Philippines first established in 1949 and currently headed by The Philippine Star sports editor Nelson Beltran. Previous recipients of the award were the Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas, Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines, Jiu Jitsu Federation of the Philippines, Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association and Philippine Taekwondo Association. The traditional Awards Night has the Philippine Sports Commission, Philippine Olympic Committee, PLDT/Smart, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, Milo and Januarius Holdings as major sponsors and supported by the Philippine Basketball Association, Premiere Volleyball League, Akari, Rain or Shine, AcroCity and 1-Pacman Party List. Yulo was just as dominant in the continent with his four gold medals in the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships in Tashkent and a gold and a silver in the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series in Qatar where Ruivivar also bagged a silver medal to earned tickets to Paris.Another Yulo, Karl Eldrew, made his presence felt as well, bagging the gold medal in the juniors division of the same Tashkent tournament. The younger brother of Carlos Yulo also won golds in the Pacific Rim Championship in Cali, Colombia, and in the Chiu Wai Chung Cup in Hong Kong just before 2024 ended.
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