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Arianne Cerdeña

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Arianne Cerdeña-Valdez
Cerdeña at the 1999 SEA Games
Personal information
Full nameArianne Cerdeña-Valdez
Born (1962-03-11) March 11, 1962 (age 62)
Years active1981–2001
Sport
CountryPhilippines
SportBowling
EventTen-pin
Coached byErnesto Lopa (1988)
Retired2001
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals1988 Summer Olympics: Demonstration sport – Gold
Medal record
Women's Bowling
Representing  Philippines
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Demonstration sport at the Olympic Games 1
World Bowling Championships 1
World Games 2
Asian Games 1 1
Asian Championships 1 2 1
Southeast Asian Games 5 5 2
Total 8 10 4
Demonstration sport at the Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul Women Finals
World Tenpin Bowling Championships
Silver medal – second place 1983 Caracas Trios
World Games
Silver medal – second place Karlsruhe 1989 Singles
Silver medal – second place Karlsruhe 1989 Doubles
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place Seoul 1986 Team of 5
Bronze medal – third place Seoul 1986 Doubles
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place Perth 1992 Masters
Gold medal – first place Kuala Lumpur 1986 Doubles[1]
Bronze medal – third place Kuala Lumpur 1986 Trios[1]
Silver medal – second place Singapore 1984 Doubles[2]
Southeast Asian Games
Gold medal – first place Kuala Lumpur 2001 Doubles
Gold medal – first place Bandar Seri Begawan 1999 Singles
Silver medal – second place Manila 1991 Doubles[3]
Silver medal – second place Manila 1991 Team
Silver medal – second place Manila 1991 All Events
Bronze medal – third place Manila 1991 Masters
Gold medal – first place Kuala Lumpur 1989 Masters[3]
Gold medal – first place Bangkok 1985 Trios[1]
Silver medal – second place Singapore 1983 Trios[1]
Gold medal – first place Singapore 1983 Team
Bronze medal – third place Singapore 1983 Masters
Silver medal – second place Manila 1981 Team

Arianne Cerdeña (born March 11, 1962[4]) is a Filipino ten-pin bowling player. She is best known for winning the first gold medal for the Philippines in the Summer Olympics; albeit in a demonstration event hence the medal won was not counted in the official medal tally. She won the medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She is elected to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame in March 2021.[4]

Career

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Arianne Cerdeña debuted for the Philippine national team at the 1981 Southeast Asian Games. She won six gold medals overall in the regional games, including the single gold medal won by the Philippine bowling delegation in the 1999 edition in Brunei.[5]

Cerdeña won a silver medal in Trios with Bong Coo and Lita de la Rosa in the quadrennial Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs FIQ World Championship now WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championships in 1983 held in Caracas, Venezuela.[6]

Cerdeña is an Asian Games Gold Medalist. She was a member of the gold medal Team of 5 event with Bong Coo, Catalina Solis, Cecilia Gaffud and Rebecca Watanabe and shared the doubles bronze medal with Bong Coo in the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, South Korea.[4]

Cerdeña would return to South Korea two years later to participate in the 1988 Summer Olympics where the bowling tournament is a demonstration event. Coached by Ernesto Lopa, she won the first Olympic gold medal for the Philippines outbesting Atsuko Asai of Japan. Although as a demonstration event, the medal was not counted in the official medal tally for the Games.[7][8]

Cerdeña also captured two silver medals at the quadrennial World Games held at Karlsruhe, West Germany 1989, in singles and mixed doubles with Jorge Fernandez.

At the 1993 Bowling World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa, Arianne Cerdeña won the Brent Peterson Country Award with Paeng Nepomuceno. She placed third in the singles event.[9]

She retired from competitive bowling, last participating in the 2001 Southeast Asian Games where she clinched her last gold medal in the doubles event with Liza del Rosario,[10] to focus more on her family.[4][11]

Personal life and post-retirement

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Cerdeña is married to Raymond Valdez, a former dentistry student at the Centro Escolar University like herself with whom she has a daughter.[12][4] After retiring, she settled in the United States in 2002 to join her husband who has been living in the US since 1988.[12] Unable to find employment in the US she decided to study nursing along with her husband in Los Angeles.[12][13] In 2004, she had a brief bout with ovarian cancer but she eventually recovered and became a registered nurse.[11] As of 2021, she is working at the California Hospital Medical Center for at least five years already.[13]

In 2021, Cerdeña was inducted to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Tribute Magazine 1986.
  2. ^ Brian Miller (November 7, 1984). "Third gold medal for Philippines". BUSINESS TIMES. p. 18.
  3. ^ a b "Southeast Asian Games Results". ABF-Online. Asian Bowling Federation. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e Pedralvez, Manolo (March 13, 2021). "Bowling: Olympic champ Arianne Cerdeña recalls journey to PH Sports Hall of Fame". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  5. ^ "Bowlers on road to greatness". Arab News. April 11, 2002.
  6. ^ "European Tenpin Bowling Federation World Championships Medal History".
  7. ^ "World Bowling 1998 Summer Olympics". World Bowling. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
  8. ^ Garcellano, Rosario (September 28, 1988). "Meanwhile at the Olympics". Manila Standard. p. 13.
  9. ^ "1993 Johannesburg, South Africa: Final Standings Women". Qubicaamf.com. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
  10. ^ "SEA Games gold medalist pararangalan sa PSA Awards Night".
  11. ^ a b Angeles, Steve (August 13, 2016). "Arianne Cerdena: The 1st Filipina to taste Olympic glory". ABS-CBN News. ABS-CBN North America News Bureau. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  12. ^ a b c "Life after bowling – The Manila Times". Manila Times. March 31, 2021. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  13. ^ a b Navarro, June (March 17, 2021). "An Olympic gold medalist who did not officially count, now made immortal". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  14. ^ Charm, Neil (March 14, 2021). "New batch of athletes to be enshrined in PHL Sports Hall of Fame". Retrieved April 3, 2021.