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Lydia de Vega memorial wall to be put up at POC Museum in Clark. POC to honor Lydia de Vega with memorial wall in Clark. by from the wires. Aug 14, 2022. THE Philippine Olympic Committee (POC ...
De Vega won the gold medal in the 100-meter dash on Usha’s turf in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, serving notice that there was a new queen of the track. ... LYDIA DE VEGA. BrandSpace Articles.
[See Lydia De Vega in critical condition] The father-and-daughter duo soon started collecting several medals for the Philippines. Her performance would level up in the 1982 and 1986 Asian Games ...
Had Lydia de Vega been alive Monday, the former Asian Sprint Queen would have been celebrating her 58th birthday. Or commemorating with mother Aleng Mary and her family the 22nd death anniversary ...
MANILA, Philippines — EJ Obiena has pledged to donate his incentives from the Philippine Sports Commission to the ailing Lydia De Vega. Obiena, who will receive Php 250,000 from the PSC after ...
De Vega dominated track and field in the region in her prime, winning back-to-back Asian Games 100 meters gold medals in New Delhi 1982 and Seoul 1986, two 100 and two 200 meters titles in the ...
De Vega won 15 gold medals throughout her career, including nine in the South-east Asian Games. She became a track superstar in the Philippines when, at just 16 years old, she won golds in the ...
Lydia de Vega, the name that became ... Usha suffered the biggest heartbreak of her career when she missed out on a medal in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
MANILA, Philippines—Stephanie Mercado-de Koenigswarter and Jonathan Mercado, children of the late Lydia De Vega-Mercado, received the Philippine Sportswriters' Association’s Hall of ...
Knott erased the three-decade-old record set by Lydia de Vega (11.28) ... Congratulations Kristina Marie Knott for winning a silver medal at the 2020 @DrakeUniversity Blue Oval Showcase in Iowa, ...