Elma muros biography tagalog

Elma Muros-Posadas born January 14, , in Magdiwang , Romblon also known as the "Long Jump Queen" of the Philippines and a heptathlon champion, is a former member of the Philippine Track and Field National Team and now a legend in Philippine track and field history who specialized in long jump. She also competed in the heptathlon , m and m hurdles, m, m, and m sprint alongside the "Sprint Queen" of the Philippines and also fellow legend, Lydia de Vega.

She is the 6th eldest child in a brood of nine. Her mother is a former athlete who competed in the meter sprint in her youth. Muros is involved in track and field competitively as early as when she was 14 years old.

Lydia de vega

At that time, she was scouted by local officials looking for potential athletes for the Southern Tagalog Regional Athletics Association sporting meet. Muros-Posadas won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games , [ 4 ] a record number in the athletics competition which she jointly holds with Jennifer Tin Lay of Myanmar.

Muros won eight South East Asian Games titles in the long jump the first at the age of 16 in At one point, she also dominated the sprints winning both the and metres in the Southeast Asian Games. She was also a competitor for the Philippines in the long jump event at the Olympic Games in and She was also a five-time participant at the IAAF World Indoor Championships , competing in , , , and in sprints and long jump.

She was a two-time medallist at the Asian Games , taking the long jump bronze medal at the Games as well as a metres hurdles bronze medal in