Hidilyn Diaz with Workforce HD on their strategy to Hanoi, Vietnam for the thirty first SEA Video games. HIDILYN DIAZ INSTAGRAM
VINH PHUC, Vietnam. – Though she’s the odds-on choose to elevate the gold in her division, Olympic champion Hidilyn Diaz refused to look previous the opposition within the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games weightlifting battle on Might 19-22 on the Hanoi Sports activities Coaching and Competitors Middle.
It’s not for lack of coaching or want. She simply acknowledged the truth that on any given day, somebody may simply spring a shock.
“Everybody of us can win a gold medal and I can’t cite names as a result of all of us are doing our greatest to carry out on the highest stage,” mentioned Diaz, refusing to make any prediction within the regional multi-sporting competitors.
“I can’t make any prediction since all of the athletes are able to successful a gold medal,” added the 2021 Philippine Sportswriters Affiliation Athlete of the Yr who ended the nation’s quest for a golden win within the Tokyo Olympics.
A day after arriving in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, the 31-year-old Zamboangueña plunged into coaching at Metal Saigon fitness center to arrange for her gold medal bid within the ladies’s 55kg class on Might 20. She reigned supreme in her division within the 2019 Philippine SEA Video games.
“I’ll prepare for one week right here in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis to arrange myself,” mentioned Diaz.
Serving to Diaz attain topnotch kind on competitors day are members of the HD workforce who arrived along with her final Tuesday in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis — head coach Julius Naranjo, nutritionist Jeaneth Aro and sports activities psychologist Dr. Karen Trinidad.
Diaz’s teammates on the ladies’s workforce, who will fly to Hanoi on Might 16 after their inflexible coaching on the Rizal Memorial Sports activities Advanced, are reigning Asian champion Vanessa Sarno (-71 kg), Tokyo Olympian Erleen Ann Ando (64 kg), 2019 SEA Video games gold medalist Kristel Macrohon (+71 kg), 2019 SEA Video games silver medalist Margaret Colonia, Asian Championships silver winner Mary Flor Diaz (45 kg) and Rosegie Ramos (49 kg).
The lads’s workforce members are Rio Olympics wager Nestor Colonia (67 kg), Fernando Agad (55kg), John Dexter Tabique (-89kg), Rowel Garcia (61kg), John Kevin Padullo (+89kg), and Lemon Tarro (73kg). They are going to be joined by coaches Gregorio Colonia, Nicolas Jaluag, Gary Hortelano and Patrick Lee.
Diaz, earlier than successful the gold in Tokyo Summer time Olympic Video games final July, had already gained the silver medal in 2016 Rio Olympics and a gold medal within the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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