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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776061432981IMG_0642.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/>Newest Philippine Sports Hall of Fame inductees. MANILA — Seven Filipino athletes who helped shape and elevate the country’s sporting scene will finally get their well-deserved place in the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame.</div>Ramon Fernandez (basketball), Mansueto “Onyok” Velasco Jr. (boxing), Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta (para-powerlifting), Beatriz Lucero Lhuillier (gymnastics/taekwondo), Cecil Mamiit (tennis), Isidro Del Prado (athletics), and Eduardo Alvir Pacheco (football/basketball) compose the fifth batch of inductees, who will be officially enshrined next month.“The Hall of Fame is more than an honor roll. It is a living ledger of greatness for those who have defined what it means to be a Filipino in sports,” said Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman Patrick Gregorio on Monday as he led the announcement.“The search for new inductees is very difficult, but we undertake this task because a nation that remembers its champions is a nation that will continue to produce them,” added Gregorio, who was alongside Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Abraham Tolentino and PSC commissioners.The seven legends will join the 47 other names already in the Hall of Fame, which was established in 1999 through Republic Act No. 8757. Each inductee will also receive P500,000, as stipulated in the law.“Mahirap yung discussion to finally come up with the list. We had 75 total nominees, as we had a nationwide nomination process,” said veteran sports journalist Quinito Henson, who was part of the review panel.He noted that the panel considered athletes who were active from 1924 to 2014 and explained how Republic Act No. 8757 factored into the selection.The law states that only retired athletes and coaches may be inducted. It also limits nominees to players and coaches, making sports patrons and other officials ineligible for enshrinement.Gregorio said he will push for amendments to allow other deserving individuals to be considered for nomination and enshrinement.“I will be doing a very aggressive campaign to amend this,” insisted the former PBA Chairman.Still, Henson emphasized that the current batch of inductees should not be discounted, given their contributions to Philippine sports.“We really wanted to make this an elite batch of enshrinements,” he said.The newest inductees will be enshrined at a venue and time yet to be determined, though the ceremony is set for May 20, Gregorio added.

Seven Filipino athletes who helped shape and elevate the country’s sporting scene will finally get their well-deserved place in the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame.

Seven Filipino athletes who helped shape and elevate the country’s sporting scene will finally get their well-deserved place in the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame.

Ramon Fernandez, Onyok Velasco among latest PH Sports Hall of Fame inductees

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Ramon Fernandez, Onyok Velasco among latest PH Sports Hall of Fame inductees

Rom Anzures,

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Published April 13, 2026 02:36 PM PHT

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