Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Weightlifting - Women's 55kg - Group A - Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan - July 26, 2021. Hidilyn Diaz of the Philippines celebrates after a lift. REUTERS/Edgard ...

EVERYONE KNOWS Hidilyn Diaz' weightlifting journey as she carried an entire nation at her back during the Tokyo Olympics back in 2021, where she won the first gold medal for the Philippines in an ...

Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz led the storytellers at the first Inquirer Read-Along session of the year.

Something must have stirred inside Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo after witnessing her ... which was held in 2021 due to the pandemic. But with the Olympics restructuring the weight classes of her sport, ...

Muattar Nabieva of Uzbekistan set the Olympic record of 98kg in the snatch, where Diaz was unable to complete her attempt at 99kg. Nabieva was less of a factor in the clean and jerk and wound up in ...

For bringing pride and glory to the country with every lift she did in an outstanding sporting journey, a weightlifting icon is set for enshrinement in ...

The Philippines’ first-ever gold medalist had an earlier claim to fame: being accused of conspiring against the Duterte administration.

Legendary weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, the Filipino athlete who broke ... a four-time winner of the Athlete of the Year (2016, 2018, 2021, 2022) Boxers Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas will also ...