2025 PSA Annual Awards

2025 PSA Annual Awards
DateJanuary 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)
LocationManila Hotel, Manila
CountryPhilippines
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The 2025 Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Annual Awards is an annual awarding ceremony giving honor and spotlight to the individuals (athletes, officials) teams, National Sports Associations and organizations that made success and giving pride and honor to the Philippine sports in the year 2024, specifically in the recent campaign of the Filipino athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympics led by gold medalist Carlos Yulo.

Details

The awarding ceremony will be held on January 27, 2025, at the Grand Ballroom of the Manila Hotel in Manila.[1][2][3]

The PSA, currently headed by its president, Nelson Beltran, sports editor of The Philippine Star, is the oldest Philippine-based media group established in 1948 and the membership is composed of sportswriters, sports reporters, sports editors, and columnists from the Philippines-based print media (broadsheets and tabloids), online sports news websites, broadcast (TV and radio) and social media.

Honor roll

Main awards

The following are the list of main awards of the event.

Athlete of the Year

Carlos Yulo named as the Athlete of the Year of the PSA for 2024.

The Philippine Sportswriters Association named Carlos Yulo as the unanimous choice for the Athlete of the Year of 2024 on its annual awards night, citing his recent two gold medal feat in the 2024 Paris Olympics, making him as the first Filipino athlete to win multiple gold medals in the 100-year participation of Team Philippines in the Olympics.[4]

Yulo is the second gymnast to recieve the prestigious Athlete of the Year honors after former SEA Games gymnastics medalist Pia Adelle Reyes, who won the coveted Athlete of the Year by the PSA in 1997.[4]

Award Winner Sport References
Athlete of the Year Carlos Yulo Gymnastics (Artistic) [4][5][6]

Major awardees

Award Winner Sport/Team/Recognition References
National Sports Association of the Year Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP)
President: Cynthia Carrion		 Gymnastics
(Responsible for winning two gold medals in the 2024 Summer Olympics through Carlos Yulo)		 [7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "PSA Awards to set spotlight on decorated year for Philippine sports". The Philippine Star. December 2, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "PSA to honor top Filipino athletes". The Manila Times. December 2, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  3. ^ Eduarte, Vladi (December 2, 2024). "Caloy Yulo, iba pang atleta kikilalanin sa PSA Awards" [Caloy Yulo, other athletes to be recognized at the PSA Awards] (in Filipino). Abante. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Carlos Yulo to be honored as 2024 PSA Athlete of the Year". Spin.ph. January 2, 2025. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  5. ^ "PSA to fete Carlos Yulo as 2024 Athlete of the Year". Philippine News Agency. January 2, 2025. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  6. ^ "After historic Paris campaign, Carlos Yulo named PSA Athlete of the Year". ABS-CBN News. January 4, 2025. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  7. ^ "Oustanding year for Gymnastics Association of the Philippines". Manila Bulletin. January 4, 2025. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  8. ^ "Philippine gymnastics body to be hailed as best sports association for 2024 at PSA Awards". The Philippine Star. January 4, 2024. Retrieved January 4, 2024.