Philippines competed at the 2025 World Games which were held in Chengdu, China from 7 to 17 August 2025.
Stephen Arapoc, president of the Muaythai Association of the Philippines is the chef de mission for the delegation with 48 athletes.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Date Ju-jitsu Women's 52 kg Billards Women's ten-ball Wushu Men's sanda 56 kg Sambo Women's combat 80 kg
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
SportMenWomenTotalBillards 1 2 3Dragon boat 6 6 12Duathlon 3 3 6Floorball 14 0 14Ju-jitsu 0 2 2Kickboxing 0 1 1Muaythai 0 1 1Powerlifting 1 1 2Sambo 0 1 1Wakeboarding 2 0 2Wushu 2 2 4 Total 29 19 48
Dragon boat
The Philippines have qualified a berth in the 2025 World Games through its performance in the mixed 10-seater races at the 2024 ICF Dragon Boat World Championships. The Philippine national team under the Philippine Canoe Kayak Federation fielded a 12-rower roster. Most of the teams regular members are military personnel who were barred from participating due to tense China–Philippines diplomatic relations due to the South China Sea dispute. They failed to progress to the final in all four events which had a heats and semifinals phases.
Roster
MenWomen(*) 10-seater events only TeamEventHeatSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankPhilippinesOpen 8-seater 200m50.946colspan=4Open 8-seater 500m2:13.636colspan=4Open 8-seater 2000mcolspan=49:37.26910-seater 200m52.074 SF52.074colspan=210-seater 500m2:13.085 SF2:11.204colspan=210-seater 2000mcolspan=49:40.5711
Cue sports Pool
The Philippines have qualified a berth in the 2025 World Games for pool. Rubilen Amit qualified by placing second at the Asian 10-Ball Women's Pool Championships. Jeff de Luna also qualified.
Chezka Centeno won a silver medal, losing to Han Yu of China in the final.
Men AthleteEventPreliminary roundQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal/RankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankJeff de Luna10-ballL 5–9L 8–9 3 colspan=4 Women AthleteEventPreliminary roundQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal/RankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankRubilen Amit10-ballL 4–7L 4–7 3 colspan=4Chezka CentenoW 7–2L 6–7 1 QW 7–2W 7–4L 6–7
Duathlon
Merry Joy Trupa, Kim Mangrobang and Franklin Yee qualified following their participation at the 2025 Asia Triathlon Duathlon Championships in Manama, Bahrain.
Individual AthleteEventRun (2.5 km)Trans 1Bike (30 km)Trans 2Run (2.5 km)Total TimeRankFranklin YeeMen's15:590:2145:110:25 18:41 1:20:3723Kim MangrobangWomen's19:220:2151:070:2320:571:32:1018Merry Joy Trupa19:090:2451:18 0:2421:25 1:32:4019
Floorball
The Philippines qualified their national floorball team via finishing as the best team from Asia-Oceania at the 2024 Men's World Floorball Championships. The Philippines were drawn with Latvia, Sweden, and Switzerland in Group A.
The floorball team are the first Filipino athletes to compete, playing their opening game against Latvia on 7 August. The team lost to Latvia 2–12 and also lost 1–11 to Sweden. They won the 7th place playoff against the hosts, China.
Summary TeamEventPreliminary roundSemifinalFinal / / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankPhilippines menMen's tournamentL 2–12L 1–11L 0–184 W 14–07
Ju-jitsu
The Philippines have qualified two athletes. Kaila Napolis in the women's 52 kg ne-waza event won the delegation's first medal with a silver medal. Annie Ramirez failed to advance to the semifinals in the 57 kg ne-waza. Ramirez and Napolis failed to medal in the open category.
Women AthleteEventElimination roundRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalFinal/RankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultKaila Napolis52 kgW 0–0L 0–0 2 Qcolspan=2W 0–0 L 2–2 Opencolspan=3L 0–0colspan=4Annie Ramirez57 kgL 0–0 L 0–2 3colspan=2 colspan=3 Opencolspan=3L 0–0colspan=4
Kickboxing
Hergie Bacyadan qualified for the World Games through the 2024 Asian Kickboxing Championships. He will compete in the women's division. Bacyadan has competed as a boxer at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He finished fourth losing to Aleksandra Krstic in the bronze medal match.
Women AthleteEventQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankHergie BacyadanK1 -70kgW 3–0L 1–2L 1–24
Muaythai
Rudzma Abubakar competed in the women's -48kg division. She started her campaign by winning all three rounds against Anastasiia Mykhailenko of Ukraine in the quarterfinals. However she sustained back spasms during the bout.
In the semifinals, the referee stopped the contest on the second round of Abubakar's fight against Liu Xiaohui of China. Abubakar's nose was dislocated during the fight.
Abubakar therefore advanced to the bronze medal match where she was supposed to fight Oumaima Belouarrat of Morocco. However she forfeited the bout due to her semifinal injury and was forced to go home for medical treatment. AthleteEventQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankRudzma AbubakarWomen's 48 kgW 30–27L 9–10 L 4
Powerlifting
The Philippines have qualified two athletes.
AthleteEventFinalTotal liftedTotal pointsRankSquatBench pressDeadliftRegie RamirezMen's equipped lightweight245.0155.0262.5662.596.708Joyce Gail RebotonWomen's equipped super heavyweight240.0147.5207.5595.094.526
Sambo
Aislinn Agnes Yap took part in the women's combat 80kg division. She lost to Ulbossyn Adilova of Kazakhstan in the opening seimifinals before earning a bronze after defeating Nicole Castro of Costa Rica.
AthleteEventQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankAislinn Agnes YapCombat 80kgL 0–2W 3–1
Wakeboarding
The Philippines have qualified two athletes.
Raphael Trinidad advanced to the final in cable wakeboard. Eric Ordoñez finished his skim wakeboarding campaign in the semifinal in fifth place. Only the top three advanced to the final.
AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankRaphael TrinidadCable Wakeboard80.20 3 Q70.803 Q56.604Eric OrdoñezSkim36.67 2 Q40.00 5 colspan=2
Wushu
The Philippines have qualified three athletes in wushu. Five-time SEA Games gold medalist, Agatha Wong finished seventh in the women's taijiquan\taijijian event. Men's Taijiquan\Taijijian AthleteEventTaijiquanTaijijianTotalResultRankResultRankResultRankJones Llabres InsoTaijiquan\Taijijian All-Round9.70669.406719.1127
Sanda AthleteEventQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankCarlos Baylon Jr.-56 kgW 2–0L WPDW 2–0
Women's Taijiquan\Taijijian AthleteEventTaijiquanTaijijianTotalResultRankResultRankResultRankAgatha WongTaijiquan\Taijijian All-Round9.16089.706418.8667
Sanda AthleteEventQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankKrizan Faith Collado-52 kgW 2–0L 0–2L WPD4
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