Latest Update:
Latest Update:
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐:๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐:
1. Cotabato City: 48 Gold Medals
2. Maguindanao II: 31 Gold Medals
3. Maguindanao I: 30 Gold Medals
4. Tawi-Tawi & Lamitan City: Has 28 Gold Medals each
5. Lanao del Sur II: 22 Gold Medal
6. Basilan: 16 Gold Medals
7. Sulu: 11 Gold Medals
8. Lanao del Sur I: 9 Gold Medals
9. Marawi City: 3 Gold Medals
10. SGA: O Medal
Source: Director Judith D. Caubalejo, Chairman, Recorder and Clerk, BARMMAA Meet 2023. (via Tu Alid Alfonso)
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By EDD K. USMANย |ย Twitter: @edd1819ย |ย Instagram: @bluestar0910ย |ย Facebook:ย SDN โ SciTech and Digital News
COTABATO CITY, May 29, 2023 (SDN) — Amassing 29 gold medals as of 12:57 p.m. today, Monday, the Schools Division Office (SDO) of Cotabato City has surged past Tawi-Tawi SDO which earlier took the overall lead in the BARMMA Meet 2023.
(As of 3:47 p.m. today, players of Cotabato City SDO have already amassed 67 gold medal, the standard for sporting events. Whether that number is still surmountable remains to be seen, depending on the number of sports still to be played. Some games were delayed because of the torrents of rains on Sunday.)
Director Judith D. Caubalejo, chairman, recorder, and clerk, of this year’s sport spectacle in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the first to be held in the city, provided the latest partial gold medal tally report.
Earlier, Dr. Yusoph Thong Amino, director, Bureau of Physical Education and Sports Development of the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE-BPESD), provided a report that showed Tawi-Tawi had the overall lead with 24 gold medals. His update was made at 9 p.m., May 28.
It proved to be a short-lived ranking for Tawi-Tawi at the top of the BARMM Athletic Association (BARMMAA) sporting event for the General Championship Crown.
Caubalejo’s report showed Maguindanao II in close second with 28 gold medals.
Tawi-Tawi slid down to third place with 27 gold medals haul.
Here’s the complete list from Caubalejo through Tu Alid Alfonso:
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐:57 p.m. ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐:
- 1. Cotabato City: 29 Gold Medals
- 2. Maguindanao II: 28 Gold Medals
- 3. Tawi-Tawi: 27 Gold Medals
- 4. Lanao del Sur II: 22 Gold
- 5. Maguindanao I & Lamitan City: Each has 19 Gold Medals
- 6. Sulu: 10 Gold Medals
- 7. Lanao del Sur I: 9 Gold Medals
- 8. Basilan: 8 Gold Medals
- 9. Marawi City: 3 Gold Medals
Source: Director Judith D. Caubalejo, Chairman, Recorder and Clerk, BARMMAA Meet 2023.
However, as some sports events were still to be decided as of press time, the Overall or General Championship Ranking may still change.
Last night’s update from Amino, MBHTE’s sports director, was collated from 60 percent of the events.
Let us see after today’s competition, with the sun mercifully showing up, giving the MBHTE to complete all the 22 sports which thousands of athletes are vying for.
MBHTE’s 11 SDOs are all represented in the BARMM “Palaro” the first to be held in the city.
In trying to inspire the BARMM athletes, primary and secondary levels, MBHTE chief Education Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal quoted South African leader Nelson Mandela, who united his highly divided people — Black and White — through sport, such as rugby.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire; it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does,” Iqbal quoted Mandela.
Calling them “our heroes”, he then called on his fellow government employees, especially from the MBHTE, which has 60 percent of the BARMM personnel, to support always the athletes.
“To everyone here today, let us continue to support our athletes. Let us cheer for them, pray for them, and, most importantly, celebrate them. They are not just athletes; they are our heroes. They are a testament to the spirit of the Bangsamoro people,” Iqbal appealed.
MBHTE’s 11 divisions sent in an estimated 8,000-member delegations, with some 4,738 athletes.
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the SGA’s 63 barangays or villages that voted โyesโ in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas, BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur. (โ)