Sports icon Lydia de Vega, the late track and field superstar who earned the title as Asia's sprint queen, will join the Philippine Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.
MANILA, Philippines – Sprint queen Lydia de Vega will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame of the Philippine Sportswriters Association during its Annual Awards Night on March 6 at the Diamond Hotel.in August last year after a years-long battle with cancer, will be recognized for her astounding achievements in Philippine athletics history.
Among the prominent discoveries of the Palarong Pambansa, De Vega was a proud product of Project Gintong Alay. She shot to prominence as a 17-year-old lass and bagged back-to-back gold medals in the 200m and 400m events of the 1981 Southeast Asian Games in Manila. In all, De Vega won nine SEA Games gold medals, including her memorable run before a jampacked, wildly-cheering crowd at the Rizal Memorial Track and Field Stadium in the 1991 edition of the biennial meet.De Vega was likewise a two-time Olympian as part of the Philippine team to the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Games, respectively.
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