Cagayan de Oro Gets 120 Gold Medals During Regional Meet and Overall Champion

The Cagayan de Oro Athletics Association dominated the 2016 Northern Mindanao Athletic Association regional meet at the newly constructed Pedro P. Romualdo Sports Complex in the capital town of Mambajao Camiguin Island.

COAA garnered 120 gold, 76 silver and 62 bronze medals from 21 sporting events, followed by Bukidnon Division with a 42-42-49 tally.

Coming in at third place is Lanao del Norte (42-32-37), followed by Misamis Oriental (32-41-48) and Iligan City (32-38-56).

Sixth place is Valencia City with 19 gold, 25 silver and 27 bronze medals.

The five-day sporting event pitted the region 10’s brightest and most promising athletes. From this pool of athletes, delegates for the Palarong Pambansa 2017 will be chosen.

Other sporting events were spread out across the island’s five municipalities.

Mambajao Mayor Jurdin Jesus Romualdo said that they are very happy with the outcome of hosting the event for the first time.

Mayor Romualdo said that it has been the dream of his parents who were former governor and congressman of the province to host such events.

“It is now a reality, a 20-year in the making sports complex project and we are making sure that the complex will be completed with other sporting facilities so that we can host even bigger sporting events,” said Mayor Romualdo, who added that they will be doing a post assessment next week to see what can be done further to improve their performances.