11th APA Sports Meet

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        The Philippine Ports Authority recently hosted the 11^th ASEAN Ports Association (APA) Sports Meet from February 25 to March 1, 2013. Some 500 participants came from the nine member-countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the host country Philippines.

                Indonesia was declared overall champion of the five-day tourney winning the most number of gold medals from Futsal, Badminton, Golf, Marathon, Table Tennis and Bowling.

                The PPA made the year-long preparation and coordination to make sure that the event will be successful most especially on the security aspect. 

                From the welcome, the opening ceremony held at the Rizal memorial stadium to the closing ceremony at the Manila Hotel, everything went smoothly as scheduled. There were of course some unavoidable minute hitches mostly on the requests of going to places of interest and game venues but looking at the faces of the participants from our neighboring countries, they really had fun in the Philippines.

                The PPA chorale interpreted the  APA sports hymn and represented the Philippines during the cultural presentation singing the Filipino song that also became popular with other ASEAN countries, “Anak”.  The number was a hit.

                The Sports Meet is being held every three years and is being hosted by each member country.  The next sports meet will be held in Vietnam.