The athletics events at the May

1925 Far Eastern Championship Games The 1925 Far Eastern Championship Games was the seventh edition of the regional multi-sport event, contested between China, Japan and the Philippines, and was held from 17 to 22 May in Manila, the Philippines. A total of eight sports were contested ...

were held in Manila, Philippines.Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. . A total of 19 men's athletics events were contested at the competition. It was the first time that track events at this competition were conducted over the international standard metric distances, changing from the imperial distances that previously featured at the competition.Far Eastern Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-18. The Philippines returned to the top of the medal table in the athletics programme. The hosts won all but six of the nineteen events, placed in the top two in 16 of them, and completed medal sweeps in seven events.

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was the next most successful nation, with five gold medals and medal sweeps in the triple jump and

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. China again performed poorly, matching their previous haul of two athletics medals of one gold and one bronze medal.

Fortunato Catalon Fortunato Catalon (14 October 1897 – 2 July 1977) was a Filipino track and field sprinter. Biography Born in Tolosa, Leyte, Catalon came from a family of rural farmers. He took up sports at Leyte High School, but failed in his initial attempts ...

aimed for a fifth straight

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double, but teammate

David Nepomuceno David Nepomuceno (May 9, 1900 – September 27, 1939) was the first Filipino to compete in the Olympics. He was a runner and the sole representative of the Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Nepomuceno, also served as ...

—who became the first Filipino Olympian a year earlier—defeated Catalon in the

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title. Two other Filipinos defended their titles from 1923: Regino Birtulfo in the discus and Juan Taduran in the

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. Mikio Oda of Japan was the only other athlete to repeat as champion, retaining his triple jump crown.

Chūhei Nambu was a Japanese track and field athlete. , he is the only person to have held world records in both the long jump and the triple jump. Biography The first results known for Nambu are from the mid-1920s. He was a member of the Japanese Olympic te ...

followed in his compatriot's footsteps by taking medals in high, long and triple jump at one games. Both Oda and Nambu would go on to win Olympic triple jump titles (in

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, respectively).Chuhei Nanbu
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-12-24. Wu Topan was China's only winner in the

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of the Philippines was the only athlete to claim two titles in the athletics and did so with an unusual combination of

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and

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(taking advantage of the lighter Asian implements in use).

Medal summary

References

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