Olympic champion Hidilyn Diaz (File photo) VINH PHUC, Vietnam - Although she's the odds-on pick to lift the gold in her division, Olympic champion Hidilyn Diaz refused to look past the opposition in the 31st Southeast Asian Games weightlifting battle on May 19-22 at the Hanoi Sports Training and Competition Center. It's not for lack of training or desire. She just acknowledged the fact that on any given day, someone might just spring a surprise. "Everyone of us can win a gold medal and I can't cite names because all of us are doing our best to perform at the highest level," said Diaz, refusing to make any prediction in the regional multi-sporting competition. "I can't make any prediction since all the athletes are capable of winning a gold medal," added the 2021 Philippine Sportswriters Association Athlete of the Year who ended the country's quest for a golden win in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. A day after arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, the 31-yea
HIDILYN DIAZ will defend her weightlifting gold medal at the Southeast Asian Games’ 31st edition that Vietnam is hosting next month. But the SEA Games are just a springboard to a much bigger goal for the country’s first Olympic gold medalist. Diaz confirmed to BusinessMirror on Tuesday rather indirectly that targeting a…
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THREE Filipino athletes fell short of a podium finish but gained loads of experience in the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships on Wednesday at the Uzbekistan Sports Complex in Tashkent. Mary Flor Diaz couldn’t flash the form that earned her three silver medals at the Asian version of the competition last…
Filipino weightlifters have yet to land a podium finish in the two-week 2021 World Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Mary Flor Diaz (MB File Photo) Sans 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz, the national team has fielded six female lifters and four athletes in the wo