Currently

Currently, Pacquiao is the WBO Welterweight World Champion (Super Champion).
He is also currently rated as the "number one" pound-for-pound best boxer in the world by most sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec.com, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NBC Sports, Yahoo! Sports, Sporting Life and About.com.
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Aside from boxing, Pacquiao has participated in acting, music recording, and politics. In May 2010, Pacquiao was elected to the House of Representatives in the 15th Congress of the Philippines, representing the province of Sarangani.
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GM Torre shot to prominence in 1976 as a possible future title challenger after winning a strong four-man tournament in Manila ahead of world champion Anatoly Karpov thus becoming the first player to finish ahead of Karpov in a tournament since the latter became world champion. The high-point of his career came in the early 1980s when he was ranked world No.17; successfully going on to qualify to be a candidate for the world championship after tying for first with Lajos Portisch during the 1982 Toluca Interzonal. Torre has the distinction of being the first Asian player to earn the title of International Grandmaster. He qualified for the Candidates Matchesfor the 1984 World Championship. In that preliminary stage, the contenders play matches against each other to determine who will challenge the world champion. Torre was eliminated when he lost his match against Zoltn Ribli by a score of 6-4. After losing his quarter-final candidates match to Zoltn Ribli in 1983, Torre became disillusioned with chess and more or less went into semi-retirement. He went on to become a minor celebrity due to his daily one hour TV programme Chess Today. Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde (born on October 3, 1964) is a Prima Ballerina. She is the first Philippine ballerina, and first foreign soloist who ever joined the Kirov Ballet in 1984. In the Philippines, she is the Artistic Director of Ballet Manila and Vice-Chairman of the Philippine UNESCO National Commission. She was also the Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women. Macuja-Elizalde is also Directress and faculty member of the Ballet Manila School a training center for ballet professionals who are steeped in the Russian Vaganova method. Sharon Cuneta-Pangilinan, better known as Sharon Cuneta, is a popular and multiawarded Filipino singer, actress and TV host dubbed asMegastar of Philippine Entertainment, fondly called Mega by fans and people from the entertainment industry. starring roles), television (9 shows) and recording (40 albums )
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Her success in the movies (53
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Her popularity has translated well into
the field of advertising, where she is the highest paid and most effective Filipino celebrity endorser. Cuneta's long list of endoresements run the gamut from fastfood chain to bank, from make[7][8][9]
up line to electronics, from ice cream to tele-communication company.
Mikaela Mara Antonia Cojuangco-Jaworski, (born Mikaela Mara Antonia de los Reyes Cojuangco), better known simply as Mikee Cojuangco or Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, is a Chinese Filipino equestrianne, local television host and actress from the Philippines. She is a gold medalist in the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.
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She was born on February 26, 1974 to Jose Cojuangco, Jr., former Congressman of Tarlac and Margarita "Tingting" de los Reyes-Cojuangco former Governor of the same province and now president of the Philippine Public Safety College. Her father is from the Cojuangco family of Tarlac province in Central Luzon. The Cojuangcos owns a 6,000-hectare sugar plantation in said province known as Hacienda Luisita. She is also the niece of former Philippine President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, first cousin of fellow actress Kris Aquino and currentPhilippine President Noynoy Aquino. Bustamante has been playing since the age of ten, and has won titles such as the Munich Masters, The German Nine-ball Championship, and the Japan Nine-ball Championship, making him one of billiard's greatest international stars. With his win in Tulsa, Bustamante locked up the 1998 Camel Pro Billiards Series year-long point fund's top spot. He then finished the season in record breaking style, winning the Columbus 10-Ball Open and becoming the first player to win three Camel titles in one season. His Columbus 10-Ball title also completed the first ever Camel trifecta, with titles in each of the three games contested on the Camel Pro Billiards Series: eight-ball, nine-ball and ten-ball. Known for his style at the table and behind-the-back shots, Bustamante is one of the best Filipino players of the game along with fellow Kapampangan Efren Reyes, Marlon Manalo and Ronato Alcano. He also holds the world record for having the most powerful break shot.
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Lydia de Vega-Mercado (born December 12, 1964 ) is a former athlete from the Philippines, was considered Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s.
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As Asia's sprint queen, she ran away with the gold medal
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in the 100-meter dash in the 1982 New Delhi Asiad 1986 Seoul Asiad
and duplicated the feat in the

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where she was clocked 11.53 seconds.
She also brought home a silver
medal in the 200-meter race from the 1986 Seoul Asiad.
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De Vega-Mercado also won the gold in the 100 meters at the Southeast Asian Games (1987, 1991 and 1993). She has twice won both the 100 and 200 meter golds in the Asian Athletics Championships - 1983 and 1987. She holds the Philippine record with her personal best of 11.28 seconds. Manuel Monsour T. del Rosario III (b. May 11, 1965) commonly known as Monsour del Rosario, is a Filipino taekwondo champion who has also starred in several Filipino and international action films. A member of the Nacionalista Party, he currently serves as the member of the Makati City council for the first legislative district since June 30, 2010.
Beatriz Lucero-Lhuillier, more popularly known as Bea Lucero, won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in taekwondo.
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Bea Lucero graduated from International School Manila in 1991. Before switching to Taekwondo, Bea was an artistic gymnast. She won 2 golds & 3 silver during the 1987 Southeast Asian Games held in Jakarta. Bea failed to make the team to the 1988 Seoul Olympicsbecause her age instead she joined the Philippine Delegation to Seoul to cover the gymnastics event. In 1992, she won a bronze medal in the featherweight division in taekwondo in the Olympic games in Barcelona with teammate Stephen Fernandez who also won a bronze medal.

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Currently, Pacquiao is the WBO Welterweight World Champion (Super Champion).

Her success in the movies (53

Her popularity has translated well into

up line to electronics, from ice cream to tele-communication company.

and duplicated the feat in the

where she was clocked 11.53 seconds.

She also brought home a silver

medal in the 200-meter race from the 1986 Seoul Asiad.

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