Monsour del Rosario (b.
May
11, 1965) is a Filipino taekwondo
champion who has also starred in several Filipino
and
international action films.
Biography
Del
Rosario was born in Manila
, but grew up
in Bacolod
City
, his family hometown. He first learned
martial arts under Joe Lopez-Vito, a
Moo Duk Kwan-
Tang Soo Do practitioner. After he returned to
Manila for his high school education, del Rosario shifted to
taekwondo in 1977 as a student of Sung Chon Hong. Under Master
Sung, del Rosario has attained a Korean 8th Dan Taekwondo Black
Belt.
Del
Rosario is also a graduate of the De La Salle
University-Manila
.
Del Rosario joined the Philippine National Taekwando Team in 1982,
and remained on the team until 1989, serving as the team's captain
his last four years on the team. He was ranked first in the
Philippines in the Lightweight Division while he was on the team,
and was an eight-time National Lightweight champion. From 1982 to
1989, del Rosario competed in several international competitions,
including the
1988 Seoul
Olympics, the
Southeast Asian
Games, the
Asian Games, the
World Games, the World Taekwando Championships
and the Asian Taekwando Championships. He earned a gold medal in
the
14th and
15th Southeast Asian Games, a
silver medal in the
10th Asian
Games, and reached the quarterfinal round during the 1988 Seoul
Olympiad.
Del Rosario had appeared in Filipino action films as early as 1986.
Among his more notable starring roles was in
Bangis
(1995),
Buhawi Jack (1998) and
Pintado (2000).
Del Rosario has also appeared in several international film
productions, such as
Demonstone
(1989),
Bloodfist 2 (1990),
When Eagles Strike
(2003),
Bloodfist 2050
(2005), and
The Hunt for
Eagle One (2006).
Along with
Stephen Fernandez, Del Rosario
established the Olympians Tae Kwon Do Training Center, a
taekwando school located in Fort
Bonifacio, Taguig
City
.
Filmography
Films
Television
See also
References
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