Philippines Worst SEA Games since 1999

Philippines Worst SEA Games  finish since 1999

Philippines Worst SEA Games Worst Finish

 

It seemed that during the 2017 SEA Games, the Mall across the road was having a 50% off sale. Which unfortunately also included the Gold Medal count for Team Philippines.

When the task force had predicted 50 golds medal before the SEA Games, it seemed a bit hard to swallow. The initial estimate of NSAs was even higher at 63. But the task force lowered this to 50 as it seemed like a nicer round figure.

But as the dust settled, the Philippines got more than a 50% discount on this original prediction, with just 24 golds totaled, and another 6th place finish.

Pinoyathletics.info had predicted 25-32 Golds for 2013, and 2015 where we secured 29. And had made the same prediction for 2017 officially on July 1, even though on Facebook we had already started this a lot earlier. However, unfortunately even this was too high a forecast as the final tally scraped underneath 25.

In short, 24 golds is the Philippines ‘ worst SEA Games showing in 18 years. Since Hosting the 2005 SEA Games, we have shown a continuous drop in the number of golds. The worst showing 1999 was 19 golds, followed by 1979 24 golds.

This is our 2nd= lowest number of Golds in a SEA Games in the events 40 Year History.

 

We have now tied this in 2017 with our second equal worst-ever showing  Philippines 40 year participation in the South East Asian Games.

In retrospect, the Philippines, overall positions have been dropping since the SEA Games began apart from when we hosted in 2005. If any consolation, the Philippines did climb back from 7th to 6th place but has placed no higher than 5th (2009) after hosting the SEA Games.

 

The Philippines’ worst SEA Games since 1999: Overall Medal Position Historically of the Philippines.

Total Number of Medals Historically won by the Philippines at SEA Games.

In the 2017 SEA Games, 9 of the 24 Golds for the Philippines came from Dual Citizens (37.5%). At the same time, this is not a majority. However, it is a significant number. The Basketball and Ice Hockey team also benefited from Dual Citizens. While we respect Fil-American and Filipino’s from other countries make great sacrifices for the hardship of competing for a third world nation.

NSA should be doing a global talent search of Fil Foreign communities ‘as well as not instead of developing and building strong Talent Identification and Grass-root programs.

Philippines worst finish SEA Games since 1999: Worst Ever in % of Gold

Thanks to Go for Gold Philippines. The advice he pointed out that the Philippines’ performance in 2017 is the worst ever in the percentage of Gold. I took the liberty of checking every year on a spreadsheet and found they were absolutely right.

The Philippines had 24 of 406 golds in 2017, or 5.91% of all golds available. Compare that to 1999 when we won 19 of only 233 golds which are 8.15% of all golds available.

No years before 1999 do we have lower percentages of Golds. But in 2001, 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 The Philippines have worse percentages of the total number of golds than in 1999.

Are worse count for the total % of medals is 2013 with 6.60%. In 2017 it was 9.07% of total medals, which is the second worse. From 2009 until 2017 is the only year we have less than 10% of all total medals available. Understandably, 2013 was the lowest % of medals as Myanmar was expensive and somewhat restricted team size.

Surprisingly 2005 although it was the highest overall placing and the only time we got 1st overall. We have ever had the largest number of golds, 113, and the largest number of medals, 291. It is not the largest % of gold or % of medals we have ever had. In 2005 we had 25.45% of all golds, however in 1991 when we also hosted we had 27.74%.  2005 was second in this category.

The largest number % of all medals we had was in 1981, with 24.77% of all medals when Manila also hosted. 2005 had 19.9% of all medals. This is superseded by 1981, 1991, and 1983 which were over 20% of all medals. Since 2005 the Philippines has failed to get more than 15% of all medals, and from 2009  onwards is getting less than 10%.

Conclusion and Thank you

I want to thank those who helped with the analysis and breakdown of this data. Including Go For Gold Philippines FaceBook page, The Walking Encyclopedia Joseph Dumuk and Veteran PSC Statistician, The PSC, and various sportswriters and enthusiasts. You can follow this and our other commentaries by liking our page Pinoyathletics

** Review on Performance of Sports break down next.