[3][4][5] In the next Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the commonwealth won its first medal when swimmer Teófilo Yldefonso finished third in the men's 200 metre breaststroke aquatic event.

[11] The next Olympic medals for the Philippines came from boxing, with Leopoldo Serantes winning bronze at Seoul 1988,[12] Roel Velasco winning another bronze four years later in Barcelona, Spain,[13] and his brother Mansueto "Onyok" Velasco claiming silver after losing in the gold medal bout in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

[14] After a long medal drought in four Summer Olympics, from 2000 to 2012,[15] the Philippines won another medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics when Hidilyn Diaz finished second at the women's 53 kg weightlifting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[16] Four years later, Diaz won the country's first ever gold medal in the Olympic Games.

[a] Luis Gabriel Moreno, who did not officially medal for the Philippines at the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics, did win a medal in the Mixed team event along with Chinese archer Li Jiaman which was credited to the Mixed-NOCs team (MIX) rather than the Philippines (PHI) or China (CHN).