{"id":23695,"date":"2017-12-05T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=23695"},"modified":"2017-12-05T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:59:11","slug":"filipina-wins-2-medals-at-iwf-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/12\/05\/filipina-wins-2-medals-at-iwf-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipina wins 2 medals at IWF World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipina Olympic silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz bagged two medals at the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships held November 30 in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23696\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/24174605_1768327116535133_6877981920103423951_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Hidilyn Diaz finished 3rd in the overall 53 kg women&#8217;s weightlifting division. \/IMAGE International Weightlifting Federation Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Diaz lifted 113 kg on the second try in the clean &amp; jerk category, which earned her the silver medal. However, she landed on the 6th place in the snatch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Overall, Diaz came\u00a0in 3rd place in the 53 kg women&#8217;s division after lifting a total of 199 kg, for which she earned the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23697\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/24293907_1768327596535085_1090942072235835155_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/24293907_1768327596535085_1090942072235835155_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/24293907_1768327596535085_1090942072235835155_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/24293907_1768327596535085_1090942072235835155_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Thailand&#8217;s <\/em><em>Sopita<\/em><em> Tanasan came on 1st place, followed by Turkmenistan&#8217;s Kristina Shermatova on 2nd place and the Philippines&#8217; Hidilyn Diaz on 3rd place.\u00a0\/IMAGE International Weightlifting Federation Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Diaz previously won the silver medal in the 53kg women&#8217;s weightlifting category during the 2016 Rio Olympics. She also plans to join the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iwfnet\/\">International Weightlifting Federation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/sports\/12\/01\/17\/hidilyn-diaz-bags-twin-medals-in-2017-weightlifting-championship\">ABS-CBN News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/sports\/2017\/12\/01\/1764260\/diaz-hauls-silver-bronze-medals-2017-worlds\">PhilStar<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Images grabbed from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iwfnet\/\">International Weightlifting Federation Facebook page<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was also the winner of a silver medal in 2017 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[983,1624,4642,4641,1731,2621,4640,2353],"class_list":["post-23695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-983","tag-hidilyn-diaz","tag-international-weightlifting-federation","tag-iwf","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-weightlifting","tag-world-weightlifting-championship"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/12\/24174605_1768327116535133_6877981920103423951_n-e1512461169833.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23706,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions\/23706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}