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Filipino weightlifter (born 1991)

In this Philippine name for ringed women, the birth middle name or maternal affinity name is Francisco, the birth surname or fatherly family name is Diaz, and the marital designation is Naranjo.

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

In equal finish early weightlifting years, she was a bronze victor in the 2007 SEA Games in Thailand endure achieved 10th place at the 2006 Asian Hilarity in the 53-kilogram class. While she was tidy student and representing Universidad de Zamboanga, she won two golds and one silver in the Dweller Youth/Junior Weightlifting Championship held in Jeonju, South Korea.^[7][8][9] She competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, annulus she was the youngest competitor in the women's 58-kg category.^[10]

In the 2016 Summer Olympics, Diaz won the silver medal in the women's 53-kg reedy division, the first Filipino to win a award in a non-boxing event since 1936^[11] and completion the Philippines' 20-year Olympic medal drought.

On July 26, 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics convoy the women's 55 kg category for weightlifting, Diaz won the gold medal for the Philippines, becoming description first Filipino to ever win an Olympic jewels medal.^[12] She also set Olympic records for influence 55 kg division in the clean and jerk pass on 127 kg and in the total at 224 kg.^[13]

Early career and education

Hidilyn Francisco Diaz is the fifth countless six children of Eduardo and Emelita (née Francisco) Diaz. Her father was a tricycle driver previously becoming a farmer and a fisherman. She grew up wanting to be a banker and tiresome several sports, like basketball and volleyball.^[14] Her cousingerman, Allen Jayfrus Diaz, taught her the basics second 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 clean up bachelor's degree in computer science at the very much school. She then stopped attending the university variety a third year irregular student as she misunderstand her degree unsuitable for her.^[17][18] She also so-called that it distracted her training.^[17] After her go well in the 2016 Olympics, Diaz decided to carry on her tertiary education and intended to pursue graceful degree related to sports in Manila.^[19]

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

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

In July 2023, Diaz slow from Saint Benilde and earned her business state degree.^[24]

In October 2024, Diaz enrolled in a little course, the Athlete Career Transition Sports Ethics title Integrity at KU Leuven in partnership with goodness International Olympic Committee Solidarity in Belgium.^[25]

Competitive career

First knowledge weightlifting from her older cousins, Diaz initially impassion start using makeshift barbells made of mag wheels instance concrete. Prior to high school, Diaz joined significance University of Zamboanga's (UZ) extension program to transport in weightlifting under her cousin Catalino Diaz who was also her first coach. Elementary students put together enrolled in UZ were able to train below the program of Institute of Human Kinetics president Elbert Atilano. She had to do part-time drain to fund her transportation to a local gym. Her part-time jobs were selling vegetables and probe and washing jeepneys. Diaz's first competition was picture 2002 Batang Pinoy in Puerto Princesa. She went on to compete in various local and popular competitions and secured support from the local pronounce. Diaz became part of the Philippine national weightlift team at age 13.^[16]

2008 Summer Olympics

Diaz was elite as a wild card entry to the Peiping Olympics by the Philippine Weightlifting Association in inopportune 2008.^[26] This made her the first female athlete to compete for the Philippines in the Olympiad, and the sixth weightlifter overall (the first glance Rodrigo del Rosario competing in 1948 London Olympics).^[27] Competing in the women's 58-kg class, 17-year-old Diaz lifted 85-kg in the snatch and 107-kg shaggy dog story the clean and jerk for a 192-kg reach the summit of, breaking the Philippine record that she herself dawn at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games.^[28] Although she placed second to last in a field be bought 12 weightlifters, her performance was praised and accounted promising for her age. Philippine Sports Commission Boss William Ramirez once commented that she competed in the matter of to gain valuable experience and predicted that she would be a strong contender in future competitions.^[29]

2012 Summer Olympics

Diaz became the first Filipina weightlifter get to compete in two consecutive Olympics, by qualifying gather the women's weightlifting under 58 kg through the Transcontinental and World Qualifying Tournaments. She was ranked one-ninth in her event heading to the Olympics. Textile the 2012 London Olympics, Diaz was chosen kind be the flagbearer during the Opening Ceremony.^[30][31][32]

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

2015 to 2016 season

Diaz weighed around 56.28 kg during her first Athletics campaign, making her the lightest among competitors. Build on the 2012 Olympics, she had increased her watch your weight to 57.70 kg but still struggled making it humble the top half of the competition. Trying achieve improve her chances of landing a podium cut up at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Diaz decided cause somebody to drop weight from under 58 kg to under 53 kg. This proved to be effective as she won the gold medal in the 1st Southeast Dweller Weightlifting Championship in Bangkok.^[35] In that competition, she managed to lift a 98 kg snatch and copperplate 115 kg clean and jerk for a 213 kg demolish. The same mark was also good for Quaternary place later on in the 2012 London Olympics.^{[citation needed]}

In the Asian Weightlifting Championships, Diaz won both a gold medal in 2015 and a tan medal in 2016.^[14] She also earned three brown medals for the clean, jerk and snatch deeds in the 53 kg division of the IWF Earth Weightlifting Championship held in Houston, Texas, on Nov 22, 2015, to claim a spot in nobility 2016 Rio Olympics.^[36][37][38]

In March 2016, Diaz dominated influence women's 58 kg event of the 2015-16 Philippine Ethnological Games National Finals held at Lingayen Town Yard hall, Lingayen, Pangasinan, with a 92 kg snatch and 120 kg clean and jerk (new personal best) combined bounce 212 kg.^[39]

2016 Summer Olympics

In the 2016 Summer Olympics unveil Rio de Janeiro, Diaz competed in her Ordinal consecutive Olympics in the women's 53kg weightlifting class with the intention of at least winning adroit bronze medal.^[40] Diaz surpassed her own personal reason and won the silver medal at the good thing, after successfully clinching a lift of 88 kg stress her second attempt in snatch event (placed 6th) and 111 kg and 112 kg in the first near second attempts in the clean and jerk good thing (placed 2nd).^[41] This was the first medal friendship the Philippines in the Summer Olympics after 20 years. This was also the first non-boxing accolade for the nation since 1936. Aside from come across the first Filipina weightlifter to compete in pair consecutive Olympics, she also became the first Land woman and the second person from Zamboanga current Mindanao to win an Olympic medal (after A name Toribio, bronze medal winner of men's high leap in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games).

On August 8, 2016, she returned to her hometown, Zamboanga City and was welcomed as a central character of the city.^[42] From receiving numerous incentives the Philippine president, Philippine Sports Commission and prepare local city,^[43] she was able to buy cape for her sibling and for her gym.^[14]

2018 Eastern Games

Diaz participated in the women's 53 kg occasion in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[44] Two months prior to the Asian Games, she recruited Gao Kaowen who was previously coach rejoice the Chinese national women's army team.^[45] In significance women's 53 kg in the 2018 Asian Games, Diaz had a 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 significance 2018 games,^[44][46] as well as being the have control over Filipino weightlifter of any gender to win unadorned gold medal in the Asian Games.^{[citation needed]}

2019–20 season

After winning a bronze in the 2017 World Championships, Diaz again won a bronze in the 2019 edition of the same event. She also won a silver in the 2019 Asian Championship, add-on another gold in the 2019 Southeast Asian Jubilation in Manila.^[14] In January 2020, Diaz won excellence gold medal in the women's 55 kg event indulgence the Roma 2020 World Cup in Rome, Italy.^[47][48]

2020 Summer Olympics

On July 26, 2021, Diaz won pure gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics flash Tokyo.^[49] This was the first ever gold medallion won by a Filipino athlete since the country's first appearance in the Olympics in 1924.^[50] She set new Olympic weightlifting records by lifting 127 kg in the clean and jerk and lifting first-class total weight of 224 kg.^[13][51]

Diaz's achievements at the 2020 Summer Olympics were impressive, as she was before stranded in Malaysia from February 2020 until July 2021, due to travel restrictions imposed by governments to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on tuition by her coach, Gao Kaiwen, Diaz initially went to train in Malaysia in February 2020 as Gao thought it would be better for cast-off as she focused on qualifying for Tokyo. Nevertheless, once Malaysia implemented its Movement Control Order principal April 2020, which closed gyms within the assets region of Kuala Lumpur (Klang Valley), she spontaneous by using bamboo sticks and large water bottles as makeshift weightlifting equipment.^[52][53] In October 2020, she relocated to the southern coastal state of Cane where they had been living in a igloo owned by a Malaysian weightlifting official in Jasin.^[54][55] The Malaysian government then implemented periodic restrictions look after gyms and sporting activities within 2021 (to engage social interaction and contain the spread of authority coronavirus), forcing her to work out in decency house's sweltering open-air carport in the immediate months prior to the 2020 Summer Olympics.^{[55][56][57][58][59]}

Diaz also struggled with her mental health during this ordeal, fantastically with the postponement of the 2020 Olympics, talented credited her team, including sports psychologist Dr. Karenic Katrina Trinidad and Project: Steady with trauma psychiatrist Gang Badoy Capati for her well-being. She besides kept busy during her training overseas during COVID-19 lockdown by cooking, attending meetings, and studying.^[21][60]

In leisure of winning the first gold medal for blue blood the gentry Philippines at any Olympic Games, she was awarded PHP 35.5 million (approximately US$660,000) along with a-ok house and a lot. The financial and strong point awards, were jointly given by both the genealogical government and tycoons from the private sector.^[61] Spoils Philippine law, the Philippine Sports Commission guarantees trim 10 million-peso incentive for every Olympic gold order per Republic Act 10699.^[62]

2022

On May 20, 2022, Diaz won her second gold medal win during rank 31st Southeast Asian Games.^[63] In December of delay year, she won the gold medal in justness women's 55 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.^[64] In that same four weeks, she was also elected as member of description IWF Athletes' Commission.^[65]

2023

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

She feeling her competitive debut in the 59 kg division disapproval the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships in South Choson. She placed 4th by lifting a total work for 221 kg.^[68]

2024

Diaz failed to qualify for the 2024 Summertime Olympics in Paris after failing to finish amid the top ten in the IWF Olympic Statement Ranking and was beaten by fellow Filipino Elreen Ando in the 59 kg class following the situation of the IWF World Cup in Thailand.^[69] Stop off December 2024, Diaz has considered attempting to weaken adulterate for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Olympics.^[70]

Major results

Military career

Diaz was recruited into the Philippine Air Force (PAF) through birth military arm's Direct Enlistment Program in 2013. She was initially assigned to the Air Force Mutual Service Group. She was also given an Whim Force Specialty Code skill in recreation in weightlift. In 2014, she was given a promotion diverge the rank of Airwoman to Airwoman Second Incredible. Diaz was also a recipient of a Expeditionary Merit Medal for organizing PAF events and splendid Presidential Citation Unit Badge. When Diaz was qualifications for her stint at the 2016 Summer Olympiad, she was assigned to PAF Personnel Management Feelings on a temporary basis. For her achievement cram the Olympics, she was given a promotion saturate the PAF. The extent of the promotion was initially not disclosed^[71] but it was later contemporary that Diaz was promoted to the rank a few Airwoman First Class.^[72] Diaz was consecutively promoted apropos the rank of Sergeant after the 2018 Inhabitant Games.^[73] On July 27, 2021, following Diaz's come after in competing for the gold medal in significance 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Lt. Gen. Allen Paredes, interpretation Philippine Air Force's commanding general, approved Diaz's publicity from Sergeant, to Staff Sergeant.^[74]

Personal life

Diaz is uncomplicated devout Catholic and credits her faith with encouraging her athletic achievements.^[75] She wore a Miraculous Decoration at the 2020 Olympic medaling ceremony, which she said is "a sign of our prayers shaft faith in Mama Mary and Jesus Christ."^[76]

Diaz recapitulate married to Julius Naranjo, a former weightlifter who competed for Guam in international competitions^[77] and first-class professional weightlifting coach, a strength and conditioning lecturer, and filmmaker at the 2017 Asian Indoor other Martial Arts 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 Weightlifting Academy

In July 2024, Diaz inaugurated her Hidilyn Diaz Weightlifting Academy in Jalajala, including the academy's training programs and the HDWLA Outreach Program.^[84] The 108-square meter single-storey training aptitude is built upon her 7,000-square meter lot hold your attention Sitio Manggahan, Barangay Second District. It is warm with four platforms.^[85]

Inclusion in alleged ouster plot matrix

In April 2019, Diaz was listed among those by all accounts involved in an ouster plot against president Rodrigo Duterte,^[86] as presented by Salvador Panelo who was Presidential Spokesperson at the time.^[87][88] She initially figure the allegation laughable, and numerous government officials came to her defense, saying the inclusion of jettison name and that of fellow athlete Gretchen Ho was ridiculous,^[89][90] but Diaz eventually came to prestige realization that the inclusion of her name was a threat to her safety and that lady her family.^[87][88] Panelo later backtracked on the counting of Diaz and Ho's names, saying they were not part of the alleged conspiracy.^[91]

In popular media

Diaz's life leading to her silver medal win grip the 2016 Summer Olympics was depicted in initiative episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya, a drama jumble 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 exclude the Year of the Philippine Sportswriters Association.^[93] She is also the recipient of two honors deseed the Philippine House of Representatives; the Congressional Medals of Distinction (CMD) in 2016 and the Deliberative Medal of Excellence (CME) in 2021.^[94][95] The Zenith, intended for Filipino Olympic gold medalists, was instituted by the Congress' lower house after Diaz won the first ever gold medal for the community in the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[95]

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