Wow! UP Math Student Breaks 45 Year Old UAAP Record

Here’s another feat folks from Peyups like myself will be proud of.

A sophomore Math student (take note folks, Math) from the University of the Philippines shattered a 45-year old record in men’s javelin during the UAAP athletics competition last weekend at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.

The feat highlighted an already dominating performance by Javier Luis Gomez in decathlon competition where he triumphed in six other events – 100m dash, long jump, discus throw, pole vault, and shot put.

In the javelin event, lean-framed Gomez tossed the javelin for a total 60.66 meters, breaking the previous record of 59.69 meters by nearly a meter. The old record was set by Doroteo Amirallado in 1963 back in the old days when Manila Central University was still a member of the UAAP.

Wow!

Now this is something really wondrous. Imagine, a skinny kid who eats numbers for breakfast, lunch, dinner and probably midnight snacks as well, accomplishes what the guys over at the College of Human Kinetics can only dream about? To shatter a record, almost half-a-century old, and this gets done not only by a UP student (ehem, ehem) but a Math major to boot?

Imagine ...