The San Andres Sports Complex, also known as San Andres Gym and formerly as Mail and More Arena, is a sporting venue along San Andres Street in
Malate,
Manila,
Philippines, owned by the local government of Manila.
Usage
Sports
The venue currently serves as the home arena of the
Manila Stars franchise of both the
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League and the
Pilipinas Super League. Prior to that, it was the home venue of the
Manila Metrostars of the
Metropolitan Basketball Association in 2000 when it was then known as the "Mail and More Arena" due to a naming rights agreement.
The gymnasium hosted
wrestling at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
Wrestling at the 2005 SEA Games took place in the San Andres Gymnasium in San Andres, Manila, Philippines. The event was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. Men c ...
.
The San Andres Sports Complex was one of two venues of the
2009 Asian Men's Seniors Volleyball Championship, the other being the nearby
Ninoy Aquino Stadium.
John Riel Casimero successfully defended his
World Boxing Organization interim bantamweight championship against Mexican Cesar Ramirez at the San Andres Sports Complex in 2019 via tenth-round knockout. The sports complex was also used as a public viewing venue of
Manny Pacquiao's fights.
The
National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) held its
seniors volleyball and the latter part of its
juniors basketball tournaments in the venue in
2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
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. In the same year, the
University Athletic Association of the Philippines opened its high school basketball tournament at the venue.
Other
The local government of Manila uses the venue of other purposes.
The canvassing of votes during the
2019 Manila local elections
Manila held its local elections on Monday, May 13, 2019, as a part of the 2019 Philippine general election. Voters elected candidates for mayor, vice mayor, 6 congressmen, and the 36 councilors that would be members of the City Council. There are ...
, wherein former vice mayor
Isko Moreno was proclaimed the winner, was held there.
It was later used as a quarantine facility during the
COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, then as a
COVID-19 vaccination site in 2021. The venue was used as a distribution center of Christmas packages by the local government in 2022.
References
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Sports venues in Manila
Sports complexes in the Philippines