Arianne Cerdeña
Quick Facts
Biography
Arianne Cerdeña is a World Ten-pin bowling Champion from the Philippines.She won for the Philippines its first gold medal in the Summer Olympics. She won the medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, though bowling was only a demonstration sport. She was elected by the World Bowling Writers female "World Bowler" in 1988.
World Championships and World Games
Cerdeña won a silver medal in Trios with Bong Coo and Lita de la Rosa in the quadrennial Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs FIQ World Championship now WTBA World Tenpin Bowling Championships in 1983 held in Caracas, Venezuela.
Cerdeña also captured two silver medals at the quadrennial World Games held at Karlsruhe, West Germany 1989, in singles and mixed doubles with Jorge Fernandez.
World Cup
Arianne Cerdeña won the 1993 Bowling World Cup Brent Peterson Country Award with Paeng Nepomuceno in Johannesburg, South Africa.She placed third in the singles event.