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	Michael Novales	Profile
	1st Filipino skater to compete in the World Figure Skating Championships	2006
	Monsour del Rosario	Profile
	1st Filipino 8-time Taekwondo National Lightweight Champion Filipino Tae Kwon Do Ambassador	1982-1989
	Paulino Alcantara	Profile
	1st Filipino and 1st Asian player to play for a European club, FC Barcelona	1912
	Paulo Valdez	Profile
	1st Filipino bowler to win a silver medal in Boys All Event of the 1st World Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships	1990
	Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno	Profile
	1st Filipino and the world's 1st "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium" according to the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ)	1999
	Ramon Fernandez	Profile
	1st Filipino four-time Most Valuable Player awardee in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)	1982, 1984, 1986, 1988
	Robert Jaworski	Profile
	1st Filipino Playing Coach in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)	1997
	Romi Garduce	Profile
	1st Filipino to summit Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Western Hemisphere	2005
	Samboy Lim	Profile
	1st Filipino Sportsmanship awardee of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)
	Victoria Manalo Draves	Profile
	1st Filipina-American, 1st Eurasian, and 1st Woman in Olympic history to win Springboard and Platform Diving Gold Medals	1948
	Weena Lim	Profile
	1st Filipina badminton Olympian	1996
	William “Bogs” Adornado	Profile
	1st Filipino three-time Most Valuable Player awardee in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)	1975, 1976, 1981
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