Birth name Adeline Dumapong Name Adeline Dumapong Sport Powerlifting | Nationality Philippines | |
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Full name Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta Weight 111.80 kg (246.5 lb) (2014) | ||
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Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta (born December 13, 1973) is a Filipina Paralympic Powerlifter. She became the first Filipina to win a Paralympic medal ever when she won bronze at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
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- Samsung blogger adeline dumapong ancheta paralympics 2012
- Team ams introducing adeline dumapong
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Team ams introducing adeline dumapong
Early life
Adeline Dumapong was born in Kiangan, Ifugao to a family of six children. She contracted polio when she was three years old. She spent her elementary and high school days in Bahay Mapagmahal, a housing institution for youth with disabilities and went to school at NOH School for Crippled Children inside the compound of Philippine Orthopedic Center, Quezon City.
Career
The International Paralympic Committee later discovered Dumapong when the Rehab Department of the Philippine Orthopedic Center sent Dumapong's powerlifiting record. Since then, she has won in tournaments outside the Philippines. She was also offered free training under Coach Ramon Debuque of the Zest Power Gym.
She competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia and competed at the women's −82.5 kg powerlifting event. She managed to win a bronze medal and became the first Paralympic representative of the Philippines to win a medal up until the 2016 Paralympics.
Dumapong also competed at the 2014 Asian Para Games at the +86 kg event. She won a silver medal registering 115 kg. Her South Korean opponent, Lee Hyun-Jung registered the same mark but won gold due to weighing 100.08 kg, lighter than Dumapong's 111.80 kg.
Personal life
After the 2000 Paralympics, Dumapong played and worked with the Rondalla, a group of musically-inclined youth with disabilities. She also assists the Philippine Sports Association of the Differently Abled in various events. Dumapong gave birth to Alyssa Mei in May 2002, her first child and daughter.