Mexican weightlifting gold winner dead at 36
Weightlifter Soraya Jimenez, who became the first Mexican woman to win an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games, died of a heart attack on Thursday.
Weightlifter Soraya Jimenez, who became the first Mexican woman to win an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games, died of a heart attack on Thursday.
Pocket-sized Mary Flor Diaz of Zamboanga City scored big in weightlifting even as tracksters of host Leyte Sports Academy shone yesterday in the POC-PSC Batang Pinoy 2012 Visayas leg at Leyte Sports Development Center here.
Holley Mangold weighs nearly 155 kilograms (340 pounds)—and she’s proud of it.
Filipino lady weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz came up short for a podium finish in the women’s 58kg in the 2012 London Olympics but it was enough to make her country proud.
China could strengthen its grip on the Olympic weightlifting competition Sunday after Wang Mingjuan’s gold medal in the opening event.
Wang Mingjuan of China secured the first gold medal of the London Olympics weightlifting competition, winning the women’s 48-kilogram title with a total weight of 205 kilograms.
The International Olympic Committee on Saturday barred Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku in the first official doping ban after the start of the London Games.
IT WOULD be unfair and down-right unpatriotic to simply ignore the Olympic bids of the Filipino athletes going to London this July.
A neophyte in the last Olympics, weightlifting’s Hidilyn Diaz is expected to be a contender in her second stint in sports’ biggest stage.
The next generation of weightlifting stars may have been found here at the Mindanao qualifying round of Batang Pinoy 2011.
And they carry familiar surnames.
BACOLOD CITY—Hidilyn Diaz veritably stood way over her 4-foot-11 frame yesterday after shattering six records in the here. The 20-year-old lifter from Zamboanga City reset her own marks in the women’s Open and junior 58-kilogram categories of the weightlifting competitions that saw a total of 15 national records fall all on the same day at [...]
WEIGHTLIFTING WONDER Patricia Llena has been selected as the Philippines’ flag bearer in the opening ceremonies of the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
