| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Regino R. Ylanan |
| National team | Philippines |
| Born | September 7, 1889 Bogo, Cebu, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | 1963 (aged 73) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics, Baseball |
| Position | Catcher (baseball) |
Medal record | |
Region R. Ylanan (7 September 1889 – 1963) was a Filipino athlete, physician, sports administrator, physical educator, and sports historian. He rose to fame with three gold medals in track and field at the 1913 Far Eastern Championship Games in Manila. He won two further medals at the 1915 Games and also represented his country in baseball at three editions of the tournament.
He was a founder of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Philippines in 1924. A doctor of medicine and surgeon by training, in 1930 he became the first Filipino to gain a physical education degree from the United States. At age 30 he was appointed head of physical education at the University of the Philippines – the country's first and most prestigious university. He later served as national sports director and was a long-standing secretary-treasurer for the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (a forerunner to the national Olympic committee). He coached David Nepomuceno—the country's first Olympian in 1928—and was the Filipino head of delegation for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Ylanan helped develop sports in the Philippines, with a focus on Western sports such as baseball, basketball and track and field. He developed a national sports programme, assisted in the building of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex and wrote several works on sport, including a book which was posthumously published.