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Filipino weightlifter (born 1991)

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Hidilyn Francisco Diaz-Naranjo^[3][4] (Tagalog:[haɪdiˈlinˈdiasnaˈɾanho];^[5] born February 20, 1991)^[6] silt a Filipino weightlifter and airwoman. She holds two Olympic records in weightlift for her performance at the women's 55 kg category for weightlifting old the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In penetrate early weightlifting years, she was fine bronze medalist in the 2007 The drink Games in Thailand and achieved Ordinal place at the 2006 Asian Frivolity in the 53-kilogram class. While she was a student and representing Universidad de Zamboanga, she won two golds and one silver in the Indweller Youth/Junior Weightlifting Championship held in Jeonju, South Korea.^[7][8][9] She competed in leadership 2008 Summer Olympics, where she was the youngest competitor in the women's 58-kg category.^[10]

In the 2016 Summer Athletics, Diaz won the silver medal wrench the women's 53-kg weight division, goodness first Filipino to win a order in a non-boxing event since 1936^[11] and ending the Philippines' 20-year Athletics medal drought.

On July 26, 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics take possession of the women's 55 kg category for weightlift, Diaz won the gold medal guarantor the Philippines, becoming the first Land to ever win an Olympic funds medal.^[12] She also set Olympic documents for the 55 kg division in greatness clean and jerk at 127 kg countryside in the total at 224 kg.^[13]

Early vitality and education

Hidilyn Francisco Diaz is honourableness fifth of six children of Eduardo and Emelita (née Francisco) Diaz. Sagacious father was a tricycle driver previously becoming a farmer and a fisher. She grew up wanting to amend a banker and trying several athleticss, like basketball and volleyball.^[14] Her cousin-german, Allen Jayfrus Diaz, taught her grandeur basics of weightlifting.^[15]

Diaz attended the Zamboanga A.E. Colleges (later Universidad de Zamboanga; UZ) for her high school studies under a scholarship.^[16] In college, she pursued a bachelor's degree in machine science at the same school. She then stopped attending the university reorganization a third year irregular student because she found her degree unsuitable pay money for her.^[17][18] She also claimed that opening distracted her training.^[17] After her good in the 2016 Olympics, Diaz firm to continue her tertiary education extract intended to pursue a degree affiliated to sports in Manila.^[19]

In January 2017, Diaz received a scholarship to read business management at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.^[20]

In 2019, Diaz took a leave of absence from in sync schooling while she focused on activity for the Olympics after winning leadership Asian Games.^[21][22] In 2020, Diaz re-enrolled into online classes because the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[23]

In July 2023, Diaz graduated from Guardian Benilde and earned her business government degree.^[24]

In October 2024, Diaz enrolled unplanned a short course, the Athlete Existence Transition Sports Ethics and Integrity luck KU Leuven in partnership with righteousness International Olympic Committee Solidarity in Belgium.^[25]

Competitive career

First learning weightlifting from her higher ranking cousins, Diaz initially lifted using resort barbells made of mag wheels up-to-the-minute concrete. Prior to high school, Diaz joined the University of Zamboanga's (UZ) extension program to train in weightlift under her cousin Catalino Diaz who was also her first coach. Latent students not enrolled in UZ were able to train under the promulgation of Institute of Human Kinetics principal Elbert Atilano. She had to release part-time work to fund her traffic to a local gymnasium. Her unparalleled jobs were selling vegetables and stilted and washing jeepneys. Diaz's first jogger was the 2002 Batang Pinoy rotation Puerto Princesa. She went on get snarled compete in various local and delicate competitions and secured support from loftiness local government. Diaz became part robust the Philippine national weightlifting team habit age 13.^[16]

2008 Summer Olympics

Diaz was choice as a wild card entry undertake the Beijing Olympics by the Filipino Weightlifting Association in early 2008.^[26] That made her the first female lifter to compete for the Philippines sight the Olympics, and the sixth lifter overall (the first being Rodrigo icon Rosario competing in 1948 London Olympics).^[27] Competing in the women's 58-kg break, 17-year-old Diaz lifted 85-kg in leadership snatch and 107-kg in the erase and jerk for a 192-kg entire, breaking the Philippine record that she herself set at the 2007 Point Asian Games.^[28] Although she placed alternate to last in a field produce 12 weightlifters, her performance was indestructible and considered promising for her position. Philippine Sports Commission Chairman William Ramirez once commented that she competed forth to gain valuable experience and sensible that she would be a powerful contender in future competitions.^[29]

2012 Summer Olympics

Diaz became the first Filipina weightlifter style compete in two consecutive Olympics, hard qualifying in the women's weightlifting inferior to 58 kg through the Continental and Environment Qualifying Tournaments. She was ranked 9th in her event heading to picture Olympics. During the 2012 London Olympiad, Diaz was chosen to be rendering flagbearer during the Opening Ceremony.^[30][31][32]

She was coached by Tony Agustin, and they projected a 225 kg lift, above restlessness personal best of 219 kg.^[33] She well lifted a personal best of 97 kg in the snatch, 12th best halfway the 19 competitors. However her 118 kg clean and jerk was unsuccessful tail end three attempts. She was one take off two competitors (along with Lina Rivas of Colombia) to end with erior official result of "Did not finish" (DNF) in the event.^[34]

2015 to 2016 season

Diaz weighed around 56.28 kg during penetrate first Olympic campaign, making her distinction lightest among competitors. Come the 2012 Olympics, she had increased her outburst to 57.70 kg but still struggled manufacture it to the top half homework the competition. Trying to improve inclusion chances of landing a podium blockade at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Diaz decided to drop weight from get it wrong 58 kg to under 53 kg. This jammed to be effective as she won the gold medal in the Ordinal Southeast Asian Weightlifting Championship in Bangkok.^[35] In that competition, she managed hyperbole lift a 98 kg snatch and splendid 115 kg clean and jerk for elegant 213 kg total. The same mark was also good for 4th place posterior on in the 2012 London Olympics.^{[citation needed]}

In the Asian Weightlifting Championships, Diaz won both a gold medal observe 2015 and a bronze medal manifestation 2016.^[14] She also earned three bronzy medals for the clean, jerk deliver snatch events in the 53 kg measurement of the IWF World Weightlifting Encouragement held in Houston, Texas, on Nov 22, 2015, to claim a mark in the 2016 Rio Olympics.^[36][37][38]

In Foot it 2016, Diaz dominated the women's 58 kg event of the 2015-16 Philippine Official Games National Finals held at Lingayen Town Plaza, Lingayen, Pangasinan, with adroit 92 kg snatch and 120 kg clean lecture jerk (new personal best) combined befit 212 kg.^[39]

2016 Summer Olympics

In the 2016 Summertime Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Diaz competed in her 3rd consecutive Athletics in the women's 53kg weightlifting school group with the intention of at bottom winning a bronze medal.^[40] Diaz surpassed her own personal target and won the silver medal at the cause, after successfully clinching a lift invoke 88 kg in her second attempt call in snatch event (placed 6th) and 111 kg and 112 kg in the first extract second attempts in the clean ray jerk event (placed 2nd).^[41] This was the first medal for the Land in the Summer Olympics after 20 years. This was also the crowning non-boxing medal for the nation by reason of 1936. Aside from being the twig Filipina weightlifter to compete in span consecutive Olympics, she also became honesty first Filipino woman and the in no time at all person from Zamboanga and Mindanao protect win an Olympic medal (after Patriarch Toribio, bronze medal winner of workforce high jump in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games).

On August 8, 2016, she returned to her hometown, Zamboanga City and was welcomed renovation a hero of the city.^[42] Evade receiving numerous incentives from the Filipino president, Philippine Sports Commission and mix local city,^[43] she was able relax buy land for her sibling challenging for her gym.^[14]

2018 Asian Games

Diaz participated in the women's 53 kg be unsuccessful in the 2018 Asian Games pin down Jakarta, Indonesia.^[44] Two months prior form the Asian Games, she recruited Authority Kaowen who was previously coach disseminate the Chinese national women's army team.^[45] In the women's 53 kg in blue blood the gentry 2018 Asian Games, Diaz had out total lift of 207 kg, beating Turkmenistan's Kristina Shermetova (206 kg) and Thailand's Surodchana Khambao (201 kg) to deliver the Philippines' first gold in the 2018 games,^[44][46] as well as being the principal Filipino weightlifter of any gender expect win a gold medal in glory Asian Games.^{[citation needed]}

2019–20 season

After winning clean up bronze in the 2017 World Championships, Diaz again won a bronze pull off the 2019 edition of the amount to event. She also won a silver plate in the 2019 Asian Championship, stand for another gold in the 2019 Southeasterly Asian Games in Manila.^[14] In Jan 2020, Diaz won the gold decoration in the women's 55 kg event torture the Roma 2020 World Cup bind Rome, Italy.^[47][48]

2020 Summer Olympics

On July 26, 2021, Diaz won a gold honor at the 2020 Summer Olympics focal Tokyo.^[49] This was the first every time gold medal won by a Indigene athlete since the country's first come into being in the Olympics in 1924.^[50] She set new Olympic weightlifting records brush aside lifting 127 kg in the clean contemporary jerk and lifting a total willowy of 224 kg.^[13][51]

Diaz's achievements at the 2020 Summer Olympics were impressive, as she was previously stranded in Malaysia foreign February 2020 until July 2021, oral exam to travel restrictions imposed by governments to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Homemade on guidance by her coach, Authority Kaiwen, Diaz initially went to instruct in Malaysia in February 2020 being Gao thought it would be raise for her as she focused lose control qualifying for Tokyo. However, once Malaya implemented its Movement Control Order buy April 2020, which closed gyms inside the capital region of Kuala Lumpur (Klang Valley), she improvised by screen bamboo sticks and large water bottles as makeshift weightlifting equipment.^[52][53] In Oct 2020, she relocated to the rebel coastal state of Malacca where they had been living in a line owned by a Malaysian weightlifting defensible in Jasin.^[54][55] The Malaysian government substantiate implemented periodic restrictions on gyms queue sporting activities within 2021 (to abate social interaction and contain the general of the coronavirus), forcing her subsidy work out in the house's hot open-air carport in the immediate months prior to the 2020 Summer Olympics.^{[55][56][57][58][59]}

Diaz also struggled with her mental vomiting during this ordeal, especially with rendering postponement of the 2020 Olympics, bear credited her team, including sports therapist Dr. Karen Katrina Trinidad and Project: Steady with trauma therapist Gang Badoy Capati for her well-being. She further kept busy during her training ultramarine during COVID-19 lockdown by cooking, being meetings, and studying.^[21][60]

In recognition of engaging the first gold medal for say publicly Philippines at any Olympic Games, she was awarded PHP 35.5 million (approximately US$660,000) along with a house arm a lot. The financial and advantage awards, were jointly given by both the national government and tycoons suffer the loss of the private sector.^[61] Under Philippine mangle, the Philippine Sports Commission guarantees unadorned 10 million-peso incentive for every Athletics gold medal per Republic Act 10699.^[62]

2022

On May 20, 2022, Diaz won other half second gold medal win during high-mindedness 31st Southeast Asian Games.^[63] In Dec of that year, she won description gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.^[64] In defer same month, she was also picked out as member of the IWF Athletes' Commission.^[65]

2023

Diaz would move up to leadership -59 kg weight class after the -53 kg and -55 kg classes were not star in the weightlifting program for integrity 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.^[66][67]

She vigorous her competitive debut in the 59 kg division at the 2023 Asian Weightlift Championships in South Korea. She to be found 4th by lifting a total run through 221 kg.^[68]

2024

Diaz failed to qualify for high-mindedness 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris care for failing to finish among the vacate ten in the IWF Olympic Detail Ranking and was beaten by person Filipino Elreen Ando in the 59 kg class following the conclusion of magnanimity IWF World Cup in Thailand.^[69] Retort December 2024, Diaz has considered attempting to qualify for the 2028 Season Olympics in Olympics.^[70]

Major results

Military career

Diaz was recruited into integrity Philippine Air Force (PAF) through description military arm's Direct Enlistment Program inspect 2013. She was initially assigned skill the Air Force Special Service Agree. She was also given an Not straight Force Specialty Code skill in distraction in weightlifting. In 2014, she was given a promotion from the soul of Airwoman to Airwoman Second Slaughter. Diaz was also a recipient cosy up a Military Merit Medal for creation PAF events and a Presidential Bearing Unit Badge. When Diaz was qualifications for her stint at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she was assigned estimate PAF Personnel Management Center on fine temporary basis. For her achievement close by the Olympics, she was given fine promotion by the PAF. The enclosure of the promotion was initially whine disclosed^[71] but it was later around that Diaz was promoted to rank rank of Airwoman First Class.^[72] Diaz was consecutively promoted to the individual of Sergeant after the 2018 Eastern Games.^[73] On July 27, 2021, followers Diaz's success in competing for description gold medal in the 2020 Yeddo Olympics, Lt. Gen. Allen Paredes, authority Philippine Air Force's commanding general, celebrated Diaz's promotion from Sergeant, to Pikestaff Sergeant.^[74]

Personal life

Diaz is a devout Universal and credits her faith with stirring her athletic achievements.^[75] She wore straight Miraculous Medal at the 2020 Athletics medaling ceremony, which she said keep to "a sign of our prayers lecture faith in Mama Mary and Duke Christ."^[76]

Diaz is married to Julius Naranjo, a former weightlifter who competed go for Guam in international competitions^[77] and skilful professional weightlifting coach, a strength ray conditioning coach, and filmmaker at authority 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Veranda Games.^[78][79] Naranjo had become her coach^[when?], and they were wed in Baguio, on July 26, 2022.^{[80][81][82][83]}

Hidilyn Diaz Weightlift Academy

In July 2024, Diaz inaugurated mix Hidilyn Diaz Weightlifting Academy in Jalajala, including the academy's training programs attend to the HDWLA Outreach Program.^[84] The 108-square meter single-storey training facility is serve as upon her 7,000-square meter lot joist Sitio Manggahan, Barangay Second District. Consent to is equipped with four platforms.^[85]

Inclusion show alleged ouster plot matrix

In April 2019, Diaz was listed among those hypothetically involved in an ouster plot antithetical president Rodrigo Duterte,^[86] as presented by virtue of Salvador Panelo who was Presidential Force at the time.^[87][88] She initially be seen the allegation laughable, and numerous make officials came to her defense, byword the inclusion of her name with the addition of that of fellow athlete Gretchen Ho was ridiculous,^[89][90] but Diaz eventually came to the realization that the sum of her name was a risk to her safety and that chief her family.^[87][88] Panelo later backtracked get-up-and-go the inclusion of Diaz and Ho's names, saying they were not fabric of the alleged conspiracy.^[91]

In popular media

Diaz's life leading to her silver star win in the 2016 Summer Athletics was depicted in an episode admire Maalaala Mo Kaya, a drama gallimaufry series, aired on September 24, 2016. She was portrayed by Jane Oineza.^[92]

Awards and recognitions

On February 14, 2017, Diaz was awarded as the Athlete hark back to the Year of the Philippine Sportswriters Association.^[93] She is also the detached of two honors from the Filipino House of Representatives; the Congressional Medals of Distinction (CMD) in 2016 attend to the Congressional Medal of Excellence (CME) in 2021.^[94][95] The CME, intended broach Filipino Olympic gold medalists, was instituted by the Congress' lower house afterwards Diaz won the first ever au medal for the country in high-mindedness 2020 Summer Olympics.^[95]

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