2019 PSA Annual Awards
annual awarding ceremony

The 2019 San Miguel Corporation – PSA Annual Awards was an annual awarding ceremony recognizing the top athletes, coaches, officials, sports personalities (both living and deceased), National Sports Associations and sports-related organizations for the year 2018, particularly those who competed in international tournaments such as the Asian Games, Asian Para Games and Summer Youth Olympics. The awards night was organized by the Philippine Sportswriters Association, the country's oldest media organization founded in 1949. PSA, which is headed by its president, Eduardo "Dodo" Catacutan, Jr. (Sports Interactive Network Philippines - Spin.ph Editor-in-Chief), is an organization of seasoned and young sports editors, columnists and writers from newspapers (broadsheets and tabloids) and online sports websites in the Philippines.
The awards night was held at the Centennial Hall of the Manila Hotel in Manila on February 26, 2019.
Leading the honor roll list of 75 awardees are Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, golfers Yuka Saso, Bianca Pagdanganan and Lois Kaye Go and skateboarder Margielyn Didal who received the Athlete of the Year awards. Didal and Saso were able to attend, while Diaz, Pagdanganan and Go did not, due to their current training camps in China and United States of America respectively. Top sports officials led by Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman Butch Ramirez and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) officials attended the occasion.
1987 Southeast Asian Games bemedalled gymnast and 1992 Barcelona Olympics bronze medalist for Taekwondo (demonstration sport) Bea Lucero–Lhuillier was served as the guest speaker.
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