Lydia de Vega-Mercado, Asia’s sprint queen in the ... athlete rose as a track superstar winning two Asian Games gold medals, four Asian Championships top honors and nine Southeast Asian ...

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 ...

Knoll almost broke Lydia De Vega’s record in the same event of ... Knott won a total of three gold medals if you include the 4x100m relay. Well, let’s wait and see if she could do it.

MANILA, Philippines—Stephanie Mercado-de Koenigswarter and Jonathan Mercado, children of the late Lydia De Vega-Mercado ... Southeast Asian Games gold medal tally of nine.

Lydia de Vega has run her last race ... two in 1983 and two more in 1987 – and bagged two Asian Games gold medals in 1982 and 1986. Filipinos also relished her golden 100m dash in in the ...

[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 ...

De Vega also won gold medals at the 1982 and 1986 Asian Games in the 100m. In addition, she competed at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, but did not make the podium. Lydia de Vega competes alongside ...

MANILA - Track legend Lydia de Vega - once hailed as Asia's fastest ... Let us pray for her peace," he said. De Vega won 15 gold medals throughout her career, including nine in the South-east ...

Sprint queen Lydia de Vega helped put the country in the athletics ... and 3 bronzes for a total of 24 medals in international competitions, namely the Asian Athletics Championships, Asian Games ...

LYDIA de Vega-Mercado, one of the greatest ... Ms. De Vega-Mercado staged some of her many epic victories including three Southeast Asian Games gold medals—two in 1981 and another one a decade later. ...

Lydia de Vega, the name that became synonymous with PT Usha in India in the 1980s, died after a four-year battle with cancer late on Wednesday. She was 57. The rivalry between the Payyoli Express ...