Filipina boxer Nesthy Petecio just became a two-time Olympic medalist, joining a prestigious list of athletes from the Philippines to have won more than one medal in the Olympic Games.
Petecio, who already held a silver medal from the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, secured a bronze in the 2024 Paris Olympics after a semifinal finish in the women’s 57 kg division.
Over the weekend, Carlos Yulo also joined the list following his historic two-gold feat in the men’s gymnastics competition in Paris.
Here is the full list of athletes with two medals from the Summer Games:
Teofilo Yldefonso
Swimmer Teofilo Yldefonso is the country’s first Olympic medalist as he claimed bronze in the 200m breaststroke event in the 1928 Summer Games in Netherlands. He then notched another bronze in the next edition of the Olympics in Los Angeles.
Hidilyn Diaz
Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz broke the Philippines’ Olympic medal drought when she claimed the silver medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Prior to this, the Philippines last claimed an Olympic medal in 1996 from Mansueto ‘Onyok’ Velasco.
After her silver in Rio, Diaz eventually won the country’s historic first-ever gold medal in Tokyo.
Carlos Yulo
Gymnast Carlos Yulo carved his own place in history in Paris becoming the first male Filipino athlete to win a gold medal, the first Filipino to win two gold medals, and the first to win two medals in a single edition of the Olympics.
He ruled the men’s floor exercise and the men’s vault events to claim his two golds.
Nesthy Petecio
In Tokyo 2020, the Filipino boxer claimed silver in the featherweight event.
Now in Paris, Petecio punched a ticket to the semifinals which guaranteed her at least an Olympic bronze. Despite falling short against 20-year-old Julia Szeremeta of Poland, she becomes one of the most decorated Olympians in the history of the Philippines.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
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