{"id":30754,"date":"2021-07-27T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=197865"},"modified":"2021-07-27T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:20:36","slug":"best-moments-tokyo-2020-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-moments-tokyo-2020-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Incredible Female Weightlifter Who Won The Philippines’ First Ever Olympic Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz of Team Philippines poses with the gold medal during the medal ceremony for the Weightlifting – Women’s 55kg Group A on day three of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo International Forum on July 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Chris Graythen\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is the heartwarming news we all need right about now. Today, female weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz became the first ever Olympic gold medalist for the Philippines. She won the 55kg category and set an Olympic record with a clean and jerk of 124kg and then lifting 127kg.<\/p>\n

As Diaz stepped onto the podium on Tuesday, she broke into tears. The road to victory was certainly not easy with the athlete spending much of 2020 stuck in Malaysia where she was stranded from family and friends and forced to train using bottles of water. In April of last year, Diaz was traveling to Peru for an Olympic qualifying event when travel bans were put into effect.<\/p>\n

On Instagram she shared her home lifting technique. “No barbel, no problem,” she wrote. “Bamboo stick and two big bottles of water.”<\/p>\n

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