Tokyo Olympian Kurt Bryan Barbosa will banner the Philippine team that will see action in the 2024 Asia Qualification Tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympic Games slated March 15-17 in Tai’an City, China. Members of the SMART/MVPSF PH team (from left) Arven Alcantara,...
Around 3,000 taekwondo jins will see action in the 2023 Smart/MVPSF National Taekwondo Age Group (free sparring and poomsae) championships on Nov. 11-12 at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. A player in red armor connects a roundhouse kick to an opponent during last year’s event. Apart from the...
Around 4,000 budding taekwondo jins from around the country will fight for the bragging rights when the Philippine Taekwondo Association (PTA) stages the 2023 SMART/MVP Sports Foundation National Inter-School Taekwondo Championships on Sept. 30 to Oct.1. Another intense action is expected...
Expect fast and furious action when around 900 black belters from all over the country compete in the 2023 SMART/MVP Sports Foundation Best of the Best Taekwondo Championships on Sept. 2-3 at the Ayala Malls, Manila Bay. Cap: A player (in red armor) executes a skip roundhouse kick to his opponent....
A 27-player MVPSF-Philippine National Junior Team will be leaving on Wednesday, Aug. 30, for Beirut, Lebanon to compete in the 2023 Asian Junior (Kyorugi, Poomsae) and Para Taekwondo Championships slated Sept. 2-10. Members of the MVPSF-Philippine National Junior Team are (standing from left) Kurt...
Olympian champion Kurt Bryan Barbosa and six other Cambodia SEA Games gold medal winners will banner the Smart/MVPSF Philippine taekwondo team that will see action in the tough Chuncheon Korea Open International Taekwondo Championships from Aug. 8 to 14. *Standing (left to right): Joseph Chua, Kurt...
Tokyo Olympics silver medal winner Nesthy Petecio finally got her P5 million incentives from the MVP Sports Foundation (MVPSF) in a simple turnover ceremony held Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Meralco Lighthouse Restaurant in Pasig City. MVP Sports Foundation (MVPSF) chairman Manny V. Pangilinan, second...
Filipino weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz shows her Tokyo Olympics gold medal to MVP Sports Foundation (MVPSF) chairman Manny V. Pangilinan, former Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) chief Ricky Vargas and MVPSF president Al Panlilio during a virtual meeting last Thursday, July 29. As promised, the MVP...
Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman Butch Ramirez and weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz during the 2019 Southeast Asian Games here. (PSC Instagram) The cash incentives continue to come to Hidilyn Diaz's way. The 30-year-old weightlifter is set to receive an additional P5 million from the Philippine...
Photo from AFP Prior to the Tokyo Olympics, receiving cash incentives is not in the radar of Philippine Team athletes since all are focused on representing the country with the best of their abilities. That is, of course, understandable. But as the dust cleared after a thrilling event in women’s...
Photo from PSC With Olympic fervor fully ablaze these days, the MVP Sports Foundation (MVPSF) through its Chairman Manny V. Pangilinan and President Al S. Panlilio, announced it is earmarking cash incentives not only for Filipino Summer Olympics medalists, but also for those who bring honor from...
Manny V. Pangilinan Tokyo Olympics-bound athletes of Team Philippines will get a chance to become instant millionaires. This is after the MVP Sports Foundation (MVPSF) approved during a board meeting Thursday, July 8 that it will grant a cash reward to 19 Filipino athletes with podium finishes in...
