Elma Muros

Who is Elma Muros?

Elma Muros-Posadas is Filipina former track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. Alongside Lydia de Vega, she is one of the foremost track and field athletes produced by the Philippines.

Muros-Posadas won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games, a record number in the athletics competition which she jointly holds with Jennifer Tin Lay. Elma Muros won eight South East Asian Games titles in the long jump the first at the age of 16 in 1983. At one point, she also dominated the sprints winning both the 100 and 200 metres in the 1995 Southeast Asian Games.

She was also a competitor for the Philippines in the long jump event at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1996. She represented her country at the World Championships in Athletics on four occasions: in the 400 m hurdles in 1991, the long jump in 1995 and 1997, and the 100 metres in 1997. She was also a five-time participant at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, competing in 1985, 1989, 1993, 1995 and 1997 in sprints and long jump.

She was a two-time medallist at the Asian Games, taking the long jump bronze medal at the 1994 Games as well as a 400 metres hurdles bronze medal in 1990.