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Olivia "Bong" Coo (born June 3, 1948) is a retired Filipino national athlete and sports administrator. Since July 2022, she has been serving as a Commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). She is regarded as the most decorated Filipino athlete. As a member of the Philippine national team, she has amassed a total of 78 medals won in regional and world competitions, 37 of which were gold medals. She is a 4-time world champion and a World Bowling Hall of Fame and Philippine Sports Hall of Fame member.
She is also the first Filipino athlete to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records twice. She has won a total of 137 championship titles with at least one Masters title for 28 consecutive years.
In February 2022, the Philippine Postal Corporation honored her on a stamp as part of the Outstanding Filipinos Living Legends series in honor of the agency's 75th anniversary of its inaugural stamp.
She was named one of the "Greatest International Bowlers of All-Time" by the prestigious Bowlers Journal International in its November 2013 100-year anniversary issue and "Top 24 International Bowlers of All-Time" by the Bowlers Journal International edition in September 2004.
On July 20, 2022, President Bongbong Marcos appointed Coo to serve as a commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). She then previously served as the Officer-in-Charge of PSC.
Coo married at 17 in 1965 and separated four years later with two sons. Coo was a talented athlete in high school, playing volleyball and softball at St. Scholastica College, but she had never bowled before. She began bowling casually at the age of 21 as a therapeutic sport following her separation. In 1969, she was encouraged to try out for the team and was accepted, winning her first gold medal at the 1970 Asian Zone Championships in Singapore. Two years later she won five gold medals out of six at the 1972 Asian Zone Championships in Malaysia.
Coo visited Canada in the mid-1970s to see some relatives and stayed in Toronto for six months. She would travel to New York to play match-play pot games against American male bowlers. During this period, her match play skills were sharpened and inspired her to take up the sport more seriously and increased her zeal. When she returned to the Philippines, she hired Madoka Amano, a Japanese coach, to help her train more effectively.
Coo's ascent to the top continued at the Asian Games in 1978, where she won every gold medal but one. Assemblyman Jose Puyat, who owns numerous bowling alleys, offered her $10,000 and a lifetime of free bowling. Pablo Carlos, the team's manager and Toyota dealer, gave her a Corona as a gift. President Ferdinand Marcos stated she could fly for free on Philippine Airlines for the rest of her life.
Bong Coo
Olivia "Bong" Coo (born June 3, 1948) is a retired Filipino national athlete and sports administrator. Since July 2022, she has been serving as a Commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). She is regarded as the most decorated Filipino athlete. As a member of the Philippine national team, she has amassed a total of 78 medals won in regional and world competitions, 37 of which were gold medals. She is a 4-time world champion and a World Bowling Hall of Fame and Philippine Sports Hall of Fame member.
She is also the first Filipino athlete to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records twice. She has won a total of 137 championship titles with at least one Masters title for 28 consecutive years.
In February 2022, the Philippine Postal Corporation honored her on a stamp as part of the Outstanding Filipinos Living Legends series in honor of the agency's 75th anniversary of its inaugural stamp.
She was named one of the "Greatest International Bowlers of All-Time" by the prestigious Bowlers Journal International in its November 2013 100-year anniversary issue and "Top 24 International Bowlers of All-Time" by the Bowlers Journal International edition in September 2004.
On July 20, 2022, President Bongbong Marcos appointed Coo to serve as a commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). She then previously served as the Officer-in-Charge of PSC.
Coo married at 17 in 1965 and separated four years later with two sons. Coo was a talented athlete in high school, playing volleyball and softball at St. Scholastica College, but she had never bowled before. She began bowling casually at the age of 21 as a therapeutic sport following her separation. In 1969, she was encouraged to try out for the team and was accepted, winning her first gold medal at the 1970 Asian Zone Championships in Singapore. Two years later she won five gold medals out of six at the 1972 Asian Zone Championships in Malaysia.
Coo visited Canada in the mid-1970s to see some relatives and stayed in Toronto for six months. She would travel to New York to play match-play pot games against American male bowlers. During this period, her match play skills were sharpened and inspired her to take up the sport more seriously and increased her zeal. When she returned to the Philippines, she hired Madoka Amano, a Japanese coach, to help her train more effectively.
Coo's ascent to the top continued at the Asian Games in 1978, where she won every gold medal but one. Assemblyman Jose Puyat, who owns numerous bowling alleys, offered her $10,000 and a lifetime of free bowling. Pablo Carlos, the team's manager and Toyota dealer, gave her a Corona as a gift. President Ferdinand Marcos stated she could fly for free on Philippine Airlines for the rest of her life.
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