Amanda Beatrice Mayo, 7, a grade 2 student from St. Paul College in Pasig City, displayed a performance beyond her years at the recent Moose Games Artistic Gymnastics Competition in Thailand, winning gold medals in all apparatus – floor, bars, vault, and beam.
Hosted by the Thai Canadian Community Sports on March 24-25 in Bangkok, around 600 gymnasts from all over Asia, across all ages, participated in the gymnastics invitational.
Among the youngest participants in level 3, Amanda Mayo, along with six of her young teammates from Learn and Train Sports Academy (LTSA), competed alongside 141 other gymnasts in the open age competition.
LTSA fielded the youngest team in the level 3 category, in spite training them in the sport for less than year. This is part of its goals to shape gymnasts at a young age, to prepare them one day to hopefully be part of the Philippine National Gymnastics Team under the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP).
The LTSA delegation fielded 31 gymnasts from level 1-6, ranking 5th overall out of the 35 participating teams at the Moose Games.
LTSA bagged 99 gold medals in the said competition, as well as top finishes for 5-year-old level 2 gymnast Lucy Dy, All Around Level 6 Champion Maxine Bondoc, and Level 5 gymnasts Robyn Mercado and Fortune Ledesma.
Meanwhile, first place team award went to PGAA-STY, another Philippine Club, while St. Paul Pasig Gymnastics Team and Club Gymnastica Pasig landed 6th and 9th place respectively.
Mayo also recently won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal at the Pasig City Gymnastics Meet. She will be competing next at the regional qualifier for the National Capital Region for Palarong Pambansa 2023 on April 25 as the representative of Pasig City for Cluster 1, together with Cielo Esliza of Cluster 3. Amanda and Cielo will be among the 18 LTSA gymnasts competing for a spot in the NCR delegation. There will be one winner in Cluster 1, two winners for Cluster 2, and three winners for Cluster 3.
Amanda’s maternal family hails from the Ramos clan of Bacolod City. She is the granddaughter of Bacolod natives Usec. Alexander Ramos and Dr. Anne Marie Rio Ramos.*
