Elma Muros competed in the heptathlon, 100m and 400m hurdles, 100m, 200m, and 400m sprint alongside the "Sprint Queen" of the Philippines and fellow legend, Lydia de Vega.
19 Facts About Elma Muros
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Elma Muros was born on January 14,1967, in the town of Magdiwang, Romblon in Sibuyan Island.
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Elma Muros is the 6th eldest child in a brood of nine.
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Elma Muros's mother is a former athlete who competed in the 400 meter sprint in her youth.
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Elma Muros attended the Roosevelt College in Rizal under a scholarship granted by then Rizal governor Isidro Rodriguez.
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Elma Muros is involved in track and field competitively as early as when she was 14 years old.
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Elma Muros-Posadas won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games, a record number in the athletics competition which she jointly holds with Jennifer Tin Lay of Myanmar.
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Elma Muros won eight South East Asian Games titles in the long jump the first at the age of 16 in 1983.
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Elma Muros was a competitor for the Philippines in the long jump event at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1996.
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Elma Muros was a five-time participant at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, competing in 1985,1989,1993,1995 and 1997 in sprints and long jump.
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Elma Muros was a two-time medallist at the Asian Games, taking the long jump bronze medal at the 1994 Games as well as a 400 metres hurdles bronze medal in 1990.
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Elma Muros won four medals in the long jump at the Asian Athletics Championships over the course of her career, winning silver medals in 1983 and 1989, then bronze medals at the 1993 and 1995 editions.
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Elma Muros was a two-time PSA Athlete of the Year, winning the award in 1993 and 1995.
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Since her retirement in 2001, Elma Muros-Posadas has appeared several times on the reality television show Survivor Philippines.
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In 2011, Elma Muros landed a role in her very own biographical and loosely-based independent movie directed by Paul Soriano, Thelma, who won best director in the 30th Luna Awards with his direction in this movie.
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In 2016, Elma Muros was reported to be working at Brent International School in Binan, Laguna, University of the East and Jose Rizal University where she along with her husband train the youth in sports.
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Elma Muros is married to George "Jojo" Posadas, an Ilonggo coach of the Philippine athletics team with whom she has a daughter and a son.
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Elma Muros-Posadas took a break from sports, opting to skip the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain due to her first pregnancy and the birth of her only daughter.
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Elma Muros-Posadas' daughter obtained her bachelor's degree in Psychology and is a preschool teacher.