Most everybody know Dr. Regino Ylanan as many-time official of Philippine delegations to international competitions like the Asian Games and Olympic Games. He was once the secretary-treasurer of the now-defunct Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation who had a hand in the preparation of the layout and the supervision of the construction of four stadiums inside the Rizal Sports Complex.

Not many know, however, that Dr. Ylanan was an outstanding athlete who won three gold medals in athletics in the First Eastern Games I 913 and one in baseball in the third staging of the biennial conclave in 1917.