SEA Games Evaluation Performance 2013

1. SEA Games Performance
Evaluation
By PSC Commissioner Jose Luis
Gomez

2. Myanmar’s Advantage
• 320 Million grant from Republic of China
• Removed Sports Philippines strong in and Myanmar not strong in
– Baseball
– Bowling
– Bridge
– Fencing
– Fin Swimming
– Softball
– Tennis
– Wall Climbing
• Indigenous Sports added
• Chinlone
• Vovinam
• Kempo

3. • Dragon Boat 10 medals 2011 now 24 in 2013

4. Lean Mean Delegation
• POC/PSC decides send smaller delegation
rather than no team with the objectives.
– Ensure all athletes chance to win medal
– Continuation of Priority Program to lift athletes
beyond SEA Games level.
– Grass roots and Youth participation, add younger
delegates team (results of grass roots programs
started in 2010)
– Regional Participation, retain good relationship
other SEA Nations.

5. SEA Games 2013 Final Medal Tally
Gold Silver Bronze Total
Thailand 107 94 81 282
Myanmar 86 62 85 233
Vietnam 73 86 86 245
Indonesia 65 84 111 260
Malaysia 43 38 77 158
Singapore 34 29 45 108
Philippines 29 34 38 101
Laos 13 17 49 79
Cambodia 8 11 28 47
Timor Leste 2 3 5 10
Brunei 1 1 6 8
461 459 611 1531

6. Realistic Medal Projections
• Forecast presented Senate Oct 22, 2013
• Predicted 26 – 32 – 29
• Actual 29 – 34 – 38
(table on hand out)

7. Lean Mean Delegation
• 9 out of 26 sports all athletes won medals
100% return
• 63.8% athletes sent won medals
• 66.3% athletes individual sports won medals
(2/3 delegation)
• Compared 2011 55% return

8. Priority Athlete program
• Reward SEA Games medalist with
– higher salaries
– Training expenses
– Opportunity for overseas exposure
– Opportunity for overseas training
55 of the 73 priority athletes or 75% won medals, 19
won golds. Proving program is effective

9. Priority Athletes who won medals
Athletics PANIQUE, ERIC SEGOVIA Judo Mosqueda, Jenielou
FERRERA, ARNIEL Dawa, Helen
GUARTE, MERVIN Watanabe, Kiyomi*
ULBOC, CHRISTOPHER JR.* Gumila, Angelo Gabriel
NIERRAS, JULIUS
FELICISIMO* Ramirez, Gilbert*
ALEJAN, EDGARDO JR. * Pencak Huinda, Nerlyn
ATIENZA, NARCISA Rowing Amposta, Alvin
DAGMIL, HENRY CLARIDAD* Tolentino, Benjamin Jr.
BAGSIT, ARCHAND
CHRISTIAN* Cordova, Nestor*
Archery Yap, Earl Benjamin* Ilas, Edgar
Adriano, Delfin Anthony* Sepak Takraw Ortouste, Rheyjey
Billiards Amit, Rubilen* Huerte, Jason
Ranola, Iris Sailing Balladares, Ridgely
Dela Cruz, Francisco Table Tennis Gonzales, Richard
Orcollo, Dennis* Taekwondo Gabriel, Vidal Marvin
Reyes, Efren Lopez, Pauline Louise
Boxing BARRIGA, MARK ANTHONY* Alora, Kirstie Elaine*
GABUCO, JOSIE ANAPE* Lagman, Ma. Carla Janice
SALUDAR, REY MIRANDA Ortega, Rani Ann
PETECIO, NESTHY ALCAYDE Weightlifting Diaz, Hidilyn
GALVAN, DENNIS Wushu Aligaga, Jessie*
Cycling Galedo, Mark John * Arcita, Dembert*
Chess Laylo, Darwin Chan, John Keithley
Paragua, Mark Parantac, Daniel*
Barbosa, Oliver Chan, Kariza Kris
Gomez, John Paul Enriquez, Natasha
Torre, Eugene

10. 10 Priority Sports
• Archery
• Athletics
• Billiards
• Boxing
• Bowling
• Swimming
• Taekwando
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling
• Wushu
(table hand out wont fit on page)

11. Regional Participation
• In the total medal tally of the Philippines, there were certain sports that the
POC/PSC predicted would not earn a medal, nonetheless we sent a token
representation as part of our cooperation and commitment to the SEA Games
Federation. These sports are as follows:
Badminton
• Canoe (1 bronze)
• Equestrian
• Golf (a big surprise: 2 golds)
• Pencak Silat (2 bronzes)
• Sepak Takraw (1 bronze)
• Sailing (2 silvers)
• Shooting
• Table Tennis (1 bronze)
• Chess

12. 5 Controversial Losses
• Jasmine Alkhaldi (Swimming)
• Nesthy Petecio (Boxing)
• Willy Lopez (Boxing)
• Philip Delarmino (Muay Thai)
• Vidal Martin Gabriel (Taekwondo)
• Other controversial decisions
– Ojay de los Santos (Karate)
– Christine de la Cruz (Taekwondo)
– Jason Balabal (Wrestling)

13. Best Performer Princess Superal , Golf
•Individual Gold medalist
•Won the Team Event
•16 Year old

14. Manage Expectations
• Well researched medal prediction
– Shared with Media
– Shared with government
Allowed athletes to focus and not add pressure to
athlete and coach motivated towards long term
goal
Requires good relationship
Government, Funding agency and NSA

15. Long term Objective
• Sports (e.g. boxing) view SEA Games another
step to a bigger goal
• Transition plan needed by NSAs reluctant to
bring new athletes, rely older athletes
• Some sports with no medal contenders forcing
themselves into SEA Games.

16. Use of Government Funds
• P150,000 each send athlete SEA Games
– $1200 Airfare per athlete
– $300 per athlete uniforms, tournament, new equipment,
logistics, meals
• Some Teams train overseas
• Some brought in foreign coaches
• Most elite SEA Nations train overseas most in Europe
• “I do not think that may be the best use of limited
funds but we need to look at how we are using our
funds to support the NSA in achieving their long-term
goals.”

17. Team Sports
• We spend for a team of 15-20 athletes to win one medal. T
• he Philippines has some success in team sports in the SEA Games winning consistently in
– Basketball
– Batted Balls
– Waterpolo but
– failing to win the popular Football and Volleyball.
– We add Dragonboat to the mix of teams wherein we pay for 20 athletes to row for less than 3 minutes for a medal, this can be
quite costly with a limited budget. Myanmar had a different team for every event in Dragonboat and that is why all their rowers
were fresh for each medal event.
• The thing about team sports is that it is popular and followed by the general public.
• More people will cheer for a Dragonboat race, Volleyball game or even Handball than watch Judo, Pencak Silat or
Wushu.
• This is what I have observed in the Phil National Games and Batang Pinoy.
• For the SEA Games, we can send our teams to play but once again we need to
• manage expectations
• create a clear criteria for selecting a team.
“ I do not believe in keeping the same athletes on the payroll for two years prior to any SEA Games.”

18. Selection Sports SEA Games
• SEA Games unbalanced competition with host
getting to choose and add tradtional sports.
• Olympic and Asian Games sports should be the
focus
• Allows countries with limited budgets to focus on
key sports
• The 2015 SEA Games is still far away and already
there are reports that Olympic sports like Boxing,
Wrestling, Weightlifting, Equestrian, Rowing and
even Volleyball will be removed from the games.
This is getting absurd.

19. Focus Sports

20. Accountability of NSAs
• Lack of Urgency to implement programs
• NSA’s took long time to include athletes in Priority program or not join
• NSA’s not looking for private sponsors to fund campaigns relying solely on the PSC
• Lack of clear vision, long term goals a lot NSA’s
• Simple things can be implemented by NSA’s to improve their sports
– Yearly Calendars
– Budgets
– Project Proposals
– Program Implantation
– Proper Accounting
– Feedback mechanism
– The problem that we have here is that if we do not have the cooperation of an NSA, the only
sanction we can do is to withhold funds. What this does is that it makes the athlete suffer and
not the officials of the association. The PSC (or POC) does not have the authority to effect the
changes of these independent bodies.