event death_date nationality sport birth_date article_title name
100m , 200m 27 september 1939 filipino track and field 9 may 1900 david nepomuceno
 david nepomuceno
david nepomuceno

david nepomuceno -lrb- may 9 , 1900 -- september 27 , 1939 -rrb- was the first filipino to compete in the olympics .
he was a runner and the sole representative of the philippines at the 1924 summer olympics in paris , france .
in 1925 , nepomuceno ran the 100 meters in only two-tenths of a second short of the then-world record .
