First Filipino in Sports and Tournaments

NAMES	PROFILES	YEAR
Benny Agbayani	1ST Filipino-American Baseball Outfielder in the New York Mets of the Major League Baseball; 1ST Filipino-American Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the 1ST Asia Series baseball competition
		2005
Bobby Balcena	1ST Filipino-American to play in the Major League Baseball history (Cincinnati Reds)	1956
Dave Batista	1ST Filipino-Greek-American World Heavyweight Champion in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)	2005
Roberto Cruz	1ST Filipino Finweight-Silver Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	1995
	1ST Filipino Finweight-Bronze Medal Winner in the World Cup Taekwondo	1998
	1ST Filipino Finweight-Bronze Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	2001
Manuel del Rosario	1ST Filipino Lightweight-Bronze Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	1985
Eva Marie Ditan	1ST Filipina Flyweight-Silver Medal Winner in the World Cup Taekwondo	1998
Victoria Manalo Draves	1ST Filipina-American and 1ST Woman in Olympic history (1948) to win Springboard and Platform Diving Gold Medals	1948
Gabriel "Flash" Elorde	1ST Filipino Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion	1960
	1ST Filipino and 1ST Asian World Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, New York	1988
	1ST Filipino and 1ST Asian World Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame	1993
	"The Greatest World Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion In World Boxing Council (WBC) History"	1974
Luisito Espinosa	1ST Filipino Featherweight Champion in the World Boxing Council (WBC)	1995
Roman Gabriel	1ST Filipino-American Quarterback, National Football League (NFL)	1960s
Ceferino "Bolo Punch" Garcia	1ST Filipino-American World Middleweight Boxing Champion inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame	1981
Donald David Geisler	1ST Filipino Lightweight-Silver Medal Winner in the World Cup Taekwondo	1998
Francisco “Pancho Villa” Guilledo	1ST Filipino-Afro-American World Flyweight Champion	1923
	1ST Filipino-Afro-American world boxing champion from Asia inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame	1986
Robert Jaworski	1ST Playing Coach, Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)	1997
Ulysses Marceline	1ST Filipino Middleweight-Silver Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	1995
Jaime Martin	1ST Filipino Flyweight-Bronze Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	1975
Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno	1ST Filipino Bowler to receive the world’s 1ST prestigious International Olympic Committee President's Trophy and the very 1ST bowler enshrined in the International Bowling Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri	1993
	1ST Filipino Bowler listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having won the Bowling World Cup three times	1994
	1ST Filipino and the world’s 1ST "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium" according to the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ)	1999
Manny Pacquiao	1ST Filipino Featherweight Champion rated as 3rd in Rank among the Pound-For-Pound Boxers in the world according to The Ring magazine	2006
Mark Paragua	1ST Filipino Super Grandmaster of Chess
Rolando Pascua	1ST Filipino Light Flyweight Champion in the World Boxing Council (WBC)	1991
Abratique Ramilito	1ST Filipino Lightweight-Silver Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	1991
Efren "Bata" Reyes	1ST Filipino Champion Billiards Player to win $200,000 largest prize money tournament in the history of pocket billiards	2005
Erbito Salavarria	1ST Filipino Flyweight Champion in the World Boxing Council (WBC)	1970
Alvin Taraya	1ST Filipino Lightweight-Bronze Medal Winner in the World Cup Taekwondo	1994
	1ST Filipino Welterweight-Silver Medal Winner in the World Cup Taekwondo	1997
Eugene Torre	1ST Filipino and 1ST Asian International Grandmaster of Chess
Walter Dean Vargas	1ST Filipino Bantamweight-Bronze Medal Winner in the World Taekwondo Championships	1993
Brian Viloria	1ST Filipino-American Light Flyweight Champion in the World Boxing Council (WBC)	2005