First Filipino: Gabriel "Flash" Elorde

3.22.2006

Gabriel "Flash" Elorde

Gabriel Elorde

1st Filipino Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion (1960)
1st Filipino and 1st Asian World Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, New York (1988)
1st Filipino and 1st Asian World Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame (1993)

ALIAS
"Flash"

DATE OF BIRTH
March 22, 1935

BIRTHPLACE
Bogo, Cebu, Philippines

WIFE: Laura

YEAR OF DEATH
January 2, 1985

USEFUL LINKS

Flash Elorde
Gabriel Elorde alias "Flash"
Flash Elorde Is Dead at 49;Held Boxing Title in the 60's
Flash Elorde honored by world champ he dethroned
Boxing: The Sock Exchange
Wikipedia Article on Gabriel Elorde

Did you know...

...that President Noynoy Aquino was the first Filipino bachelor to become President of the Republic of the Philippines?
...that Astronomer Armando Lee was the first Filipino Master of Science (MS) degree holder in Astronomy in the Philippines?
...that race driver Marlon Stockinger was the first Filipino-Swiss race winner in the Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship?
...that Joy Rojas was the first Filipina to run across 3,107 miles across the United States?
...that boxing champion Manny Pacquiao was the first Filipino sports billionaire?
...that José Rizal was given the label 'First Filipino' by Leon Ma. Guerrero, the first Filipino Ambassador to Germany?

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