Miguel Molina (swimmer)

Miguel Molina ( born July 22, 1984 in Quezon City ) is a Filipino swimmer and Olympic athletes. He emigrated with his family at the age of three years in Japanese Tokyo. In 2001 he qualified for the Japanese championships and was there discovered by a Japanese man who had formerly worked as a Philippine swimming coach. On whose recommendation he assumed his present citizenship and starts since then for his native country.

Molina is regarded as one of the best Filipino swimmer of all time and celebrated since 2001 in the South East Asia Games a great success. To date (August 2009) he was able to win 19 medals - nine of them gold. Also at the Asian Games, around 2006 in Doha, he reached several finals, but could it not to secure a front seat. As a result of his consistently good performances, he was appointed to the team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and 2008 in Beijing. In the former, he competed in four competitions, for which he had been able to qualify (200 -meter freestyle, 200 meter breaststroke, 200 and 400 meters individual medley ) and was after 16 years of the first Filipinos since Eric Buhain, which this was achieved.

Miguel Molina holds the Philippine record in the 100 meters freestyle, 50 and 200 meter butterfly and over 200 and 400 meters individual medley.

Awards

The Philippine Sportswriters Association ( PSA) gave Molina with the following honors:

• 2006: Filipino Swimmer of the Year
• 2008: Filipino athlete of the year (along with the boxer Nonito Donaire )

In 2007 they named him the best athletes in the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima ( Khorat ).