Lydia de Vega to be honored in soon to be built Philippine Olympic museum

Published August 14, 2022 1:32pm

The Philippine Sports Commission pays tribute to Lydia De Vega through an LED billboard presentation outside the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex along Vito Cruz Street in Manila on Thursday, August 11, 2022. She was Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s for winning the 100-meter gold medal in the 1982 and 1986 Asian Games and ruling the sprint double in the Asian Athletics Championship in 1983 and 1987. She was also a nine-time Southeast Asian Games gold medalist. She died after a battle with breast cancer. She was 57. Photo: DANNY PATA

The achievements of the late Lydia de Vega will be honored in the soon to be built museum of the Philippine Olympic Committee.

POC president and Cavite Rep. Abraham Tolentino promised this to De Vega's family when they visited her wake in Taguig.

“Lydia’s legacy will forever be remembered. So we, the POC, are planning to put all her achievements on a wall inside the Olympic museum,” Tolentino said. “Her achievements in the Southeast Asian Games, Asian Championships and Asian Games, among others, will be immortalized there in the museum.”

“She’ll be an inspiration to all aspiring athletes,” he added.

The museum will be in the soon-to-rise POC headquarters in New Clark City in Tarlac.

De Vega passed away on August 10 after her battle with breast cancer.

—Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA News

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