Arianne Cerdeña (born March 11, 1962) is a Filipino

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player. She is best known for winning the first gold medal for the Philippines in the Summer Olympics; albeit in a

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hence the medal won was not counted in the official medal tally. She won the medal at the

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. She is elected to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame in March 2021.

Career

Arianne Cerdeña debuted for the Philippine national team at the

1981 Southeast Asian Games The 1981 Southeast Asian Games, officially known as the 11th Southeast Asian Games, was a multi-sport event held in Manila, Philippines from 6 to 15 December 1981. This was the first time that the Philippines hosted the Games since its first pa ...

. She won six gold medals overall in the regional games, including the single medal won by the Philippine bowling delegation in the 1999 edition in

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. Cerdeña won a silver medal in Trios with

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and Lita de la Rosa in the quadrennial

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FIQ World Championship now

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in 1983 held in Caracas, Venezuela. Cerdeña is an Asian Games Gold Medalist. She was a member of the gold medal Team of 5 event with Bong Coo, Catalina Solis, Cecilia Gaffud and Rebecca Watanabe and shared the doubles bronze medal with Bong Coo in the

1986 Asian Games The 1986 Asian Games ( ko, 1986년 아시아 경기대회/1986년 아시안 게임, Cheon gubaek palsip-yuk nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Cheon gubaek palsip-yuk nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 10th Asian Games and the X Asiad ( ko, 제10� ...

. Cerdeña would return to South Korea two years later to participate in the

where the bowling tournament is a

. Coached by Ernesto Lopa, she won the first Olympic gold medal for the Philippines outbesting Atsuko Asai of Japan. Although as a demonstration event, the medal was not counted in the official medal tally for the Games. Cerdeña also captured two silver medals at the quadrennial

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held at

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, West Germany 1989, in singles and mixed doubles with Jorge Fernandez. At the 1993 Bowling World Cup in

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, South Africa, Arianne Cerdeña won the Brent Peterson Country Award with

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. She placed third in the singles event. She retired from competitive bowling, last participating in the 2001 Southeast Asian Games where she clinched her last gold medal in the doubles event with Liza del Rosario, to focus more on her family.

Personal life and post-retirement

Cerdeña is married to Raymond Valdez, a former dentistry student at the Centro Escolar University like herself with whom she has a daughter. After retiring, she settled in the United States in 2002 to join her husband who has been living in the US since 1988. Unable to find employment in the US she decided to study nursing along with her husband in Los Angeles. In 2004, she had a brief bout with ovarian cancer but she eventually recovered and became a registered nurse. As of 2021, she is working at the

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for at least five years already. In 2021, Cerdeña was inducted to the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cerdena, Arianne Living people Bowlers at the 1986 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in bowling Filipino ten-pin bowling players Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines Asian Games bronze medalists for the Philippines Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Competitors at the 1989 World Games World Games silver medalists World Games medalists in bowling Filipino expatriates in the United States 1962 births Philippine Sports Hall of Fame inductees Southeast Asian Games medalists in bowling Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines Southeast Asian Games competitors for the Philippines Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for the Philippines Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for the Philippines