{"id":2701,"date":"2023-12-01T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gqq.gfl.temporary.site\/website_23b9925e\/first-philippine-gold-in-vovinam-sports-won-by-lgbtq-cordilleran-athlete\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:29:33","slug":"first-philippine-gold-in-vovinam-sports-won-by-lgbtq-cordilleran-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"First Philippine Gold In Vovinam Sports Won By LGBTQ+ Cordilleran Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Filipino champion forever in history, Hergie Tao-Wag Bacyadan is the first-ever Filipino LGQBT+ athlete to clinch a gold medal in the history of Vovinam sports in the 7th WVVF World Vovinam Championship 2023.<\/p>\n

Bacyadan fought in the -66kg category and won against Russian athlete Mariana Avdeenko in the final game, scoring eight points in the first round and an additional two points in the second round.<\/p>\n

She accumulated a total overall score of 10 points, with one of the game\u2019s highlights being Avdeenko falling from Bacyadan\u2019s punch after 38 seconds in the second round.<\/p>\n

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Baycadan\u2019s win was worth all the training she had to go through with Coach Glenn Mondol. \u201cSulit pagod, sakripisyo, at gutom,\u201d she wrote as a caption on her Facebook post.<\/p>\n

She started posting behind-the-scenes training sessions starting early October, including jogging and hiking until evening in Mount Balagbag Montalban, air punching while it was raining, bug punching, and sparring with teammates.<\/p>\n

While Baycadan set the standard in Philippine Vovinam history, he also set a good example of becoming a loving spouse and citizen in his residence in Sitio Balagbag.<\/p>\n

In November, she and her wife, Lady, held an outreach program for the children in Sitio Balagbag and opened a water station for the residents to have a nearby water facility.<\/p>\n

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Baycadan\u2019s outstanding feat will remain in history forever; who knows, she might turn her previous 2023 Southeast Asian Games silver medal into gold in 2024.<\/p>\n

Her will and strength have brought her to reach what others deemed impossible; only if you raise your flag proudly will you be able to raise yourself higher than what you first aimed for.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hergiebacyadanofficial<\/credit><\/h6>\n
Source:
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/glenncabiara.mondol, https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hergiebacyadanofficial, https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hergiebacyadanofficial04<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go for gold and go for glory! Hergie Tao-Wag Bacyadan marks a historical feat for the country as the first Filipino LGBTQ+ international champion in Vovinam history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}