Hidilyn Diaz
Jul 03, 2020
3 minutes
The Zamboanga-born Olympian and airwoman began her journey as an athlete at 11 years old. Inspired by seeing her male cousins exercising, she started using () sticks and then cement weights and jeepney mag wheels before finally graduating to proper weightlifting barbells and plates. In 2008, when Diaz was 17, she became the first female weightlifter to represent the Philippines at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. She went on to represent the country again in London 2012, but it was
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