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#Tokyo2020 | Hidilyn Diaz wins PH first Olympic Gold
MANILA – Filipino athlete Hidilyn Diaz made history after winning the country’s very first Olympic gold medal as she competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics weightlifting competition, July 26.
Diaz won with a 97-kilogram in the snatch and an Olympic record of 127-kilogram in the clean and jerk, for a total of 224kg.
“Thank you so much for believing in me. When there are times when I wanted to quit because of all the challenges I had to go through, but I and the rest of the Filipinos were able to get through,” Diaz told ABSCBN reporter Gretchen Ho in an interview.