Saturday, August 07, 2021

Nesthy Petecio, Eumir Marcial, and Carlo Paalam win Olympic Medals!

What an amazing week it has been for Filipino boxers at the Olympics! In just five days, three of our boxers won medals!

On August 3, Nesthy Petecio won a silver medal in Women's Featherweight. It was the first boxing medal won by an Filipino athlete since 1996. Nesthy is also the first female boxer from the country to win a medal. She is also only the second female athlete from the Philippines to win a medal in any sport (the first being Hidilyn Diaz). Congratulations Nesthy!

Two days later, on August 5, Eumir Marcial won a bronze medal in Men's Middleweight, giving the Philippines our third Olympic medal in Tokyo and the second in boxing. It was a very tough fight, ending in a 3-2 split decision. Looking at the judges' scorecards, it was extremely close and it really could have gone either way. Congratulations Eumir!

Today, August 7, Carlo Paalam won another silver medal, this time in Men's Flyweight. This is now our fourth Olympic Medal in Tokyo, three of them coming from boxing. I saw the fight earlier today and Carlo buckled after a couple of hits in the first round but he got up and still fought really hard after that. In fact, he managed to win round 3 and the decision was still split. Congratulations, Carlo!

I would have loved to write separate blog posts about them, honoring each of their victories, but I got so busy and worked long hours last week. By the time I was ready to write about their triumphs today, all of them had already won medals.

Thank you once again,  Nesthy, Eumir, and Carlo, and congratulations on your incredible world-class achievements!

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