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The Philippines’ 97-year wait for a gold medal at the Olympics is over after Hedilin Diaz’s women’s weightlifting victory in the 55kg weight category at the Tokyo Olympics.
Diaz was in tears when she scored her gold medal effort by lifting a total of 224 kilograms. The total number set an Olympic record, one kilogram ahead of China’s Liao Quyun, who held the world record of 227 kilograms set during the 2019 World Championships.
The feat puts an end to the Philippines’ 97-year Olympic gold-medal drought. The nation entered the Olympics for the first time in 1924, when David Nepomucino appeared in the 100 and 200 meters races. She would go on to win her first bronze medal four years later in Amsterdam with Teofilo Yeldefonso taking third in the men’s 200m breaststroke and then taking her first silver in Tokyo in 1964, when Anthony Villanueva finished second in men’s featherweight boxing. .
The Philippines won silver again in Atlanta in 1996 (Mansueto Velasco in lightweight boxing) and again in Rio in 2016 (Diaz in weightlifting 53 kg).
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