Jaworski, Eric Buhain, Elma Muros among legends to be inducted into Philippine Sports Hall of Fame

Sonny Jaworski (basketball), Eric Buhain (swimming), and Elma Muros (athletics) are among the Filipino legends to be enshrined in the fourth batch of the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF).

Aside from the three, the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) said Paulino Alcantara (football), Dionisio Calvo (coach-basketball & football), Arianne Cerdena (bowling), Gertrudes Lozada (swimming), Rogelio Onofre (athletics), Leopoldo Serrantes (boxing), and Roel Velasco (boxing) will also be inducted in the PSHOF.

The names were selected by a committee headed by PSC Chairman Butch Ramirez, along with sports officials such as Philippine Olympic Committee President Abraham Tolentino and Games and Amusements Board chair Baham Mitra.

Each enshrinee will receive P200,000 and the PSHOF trophy.

Some PSHOF members include basketball icons Carlos Loyzaga, Kurt Bachmann, and Ambrosio Padilla, boxers Gabriel Elorde and Pancho Villa, and decorated athletes Paeng Nepomuceno (bowling), Bong Coo (bowling), and Lydia de Vega (athletics).

—Justin Kenneth Carandang/MGP, GMA News