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Team PH: Tokyo Olympics by the numbers

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4 — It’s mission accomplished for Team Philippines at the Tokyo Olympic 2020+1, churning out its best performance ever with a gold, courtesy of Hidilyn Diaz in weightlifting, two silvers from boxers Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam, and a bronze medal by Eumir Marcial, also in boxing.

Hidilyn Diaz

3 — Number of medals won by the Philippines in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, bronze each by swimmer Teofilo Ildefonso, high jumper Simeon Toribio and boxer Jose Villanueva. It was the Olympic edition where the Philippines last won multiple medals.

127 — The number of kilos of Hidilyn Diaz’s final lift in the clean and jerk of the 55kg women’s weightlifting competition. That brought Diaz’s total to 224 kgs. to hand the Philippines its first ever gold medal in the Olympics.

 6 — The amount of gold in grams contained in every gold medal at Tokyo Olympics. Hidilyn Diaz’s medal is actually made of 92.5 silver and as required by the International Olympic Committee, it should be covered with gold weighing no less than six (6) grams.

 1924 — The year Philippines participated for the first time in the Olympics in Paris, France where sprinter David Nepomuceno was the lone representative

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 19 — Total number of Filipino athletes who qualified and participated in the Tokyo summer Games

97 — The years it took for the Philippines to win its first ever gold since its first participation in 1924

 6.21 — The number of mobile phones in millions donated by the public to create the gold, silver and bronze medals for Tokyo 2020 — that's 78,985 tons of small electronic devices!

 14 — The total number of medals won by the Philippines so far in the Olympics, including Hidilyn’s gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze medals

206 — The number of countries participating in Tokyo.

11,000 — Number of participating athletes in Tokyo

339 — Total number of gold medals contested across 33 sports disciplines in Tokyo Olympics

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