San Miguel Corporation (SMC) president Ramon S. Ang personally wished Tokyo Olympic medalists Eumir Marcial, Carlo Paalam, and Nesthy Petecio the best as they gun for the Philippines' first-ever gold medal in boxing in the Paris Olympics three years from now.

SMC's big boss handed out P5 million to silver medalists Petecio and Paalam, while bronze medalist Marcial received P2 million.

Aside from the cash incentives, Ang will also provide the three boxers with any SMC business of their choice that they can put up in their respective home provinces.

All three boxers are from Mindanao -- with Zamboanga City while Paalam and Petecio hail from Cagayan de Oro and Davao del Sur, respectively.

"At a time when our country is seeing the initial signs of hope to recover from the pandemic, our Olympic medalists continue to inspire us to do our best and rise above all difficulties,” Ang said.

"As we wish them further success in boxing in the coming Olympics and Eumir’s case, his next professional bout, we also taking steps to further secure their future with the San Miguel businesses of their choice."

Ang said that the country’s first Olympic gold, courtesy of weightlifter Hidllyn Diaz in the Tokyo Olympics would serve to inspire the three Olympic boxers to vie for the gold in one of the Filipinos’ favorite sport, where Anthony Villanueva and Mansueto “Onyok” Velasco went as far as a silver finish in 1964 in Tokyo and 1996 in Atlanta, respectively.

Weightlifter Diaz earlier received P10 million from Ang after winning the gold medal in Tokyo.