DIDAL Margielyn

Date of Birth: 19 Apr 1999

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.55/5'1''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
Additional Information
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Skateboarding	Women's Street

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Qiantang Roller Sports Centre	Women's Street Qualification Heat 1 #7	Finished
	Qiantang Roller Sports Centre	Women's Street Final #11	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Asian Games
1	Women's Street	2018	Indonesia	30.4
Olympic Games
7	Women's Street	2020	Tokyo, JPN	7.52
X Games
12	Women's Street	2018	Minneapolis, MN, USA	62.00
WS World Championships
14	Women's Street	2018	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	20.00
15	Women's Street	2019	Sao Paulo, BRA	10.40
17	Women's Street	2021	Rome, ITA	8.04
86	Women's Street	2022	Sharjah, UAE	0.02
World Cup Skateboarding
1	Women's Street	2022	Encinitas, CA, USA
Pro Tour
18	Women's Street	2022/2023	Rome, ITA	43.79
52	Women's Street	2022/2023	Rome, ITA	17.03
WS SLS World Tour
5	Women's Street	2019	Los Angeles, CA, USA	21.70
8	Women's Street	2018	London, GBR	9.6
14	Women's Street	2018	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	20.00
15	Women's Street	2019	Sao Paulo, BRA	10.40
17	Women's Street	2021	Rome, ITA	8.04
19	Women's Street	2019	London, GBR	14.00
5 Star Event
10	Women's Street	2019	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9.88
21	Women's Street	2019	Long Beach, CA, USA	8.03
Dew Tour
21	Women's Street	2019	Long Beach, CA, USA	8.03
South East Asian Games
1	Women's Street	2019	Tagaytay, PHI	12.70
1	Women's Game of Skate	2019	Tagaytay, PHI

Margie (sports, 17 Jul 2019)

Spending time with family and friends. (hypebae, 08 Oct 2021)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, Filipino

Dani Bautista [national]; Anthony Claravall [national]

In October 2022 she fractured her left ankle while competing in Florianopolis, Brazil, and needed surgery. (sports, 22 Feb 2023; Instagram profile, 27 Nov 2022, 29 Oct 2022; manilastandard, 30 Oct 2022)

In January 2022 she was involved in a motorcycle accident, which resulted in facial wounds, an injury to her lip, and some scratches to her body. (bworldonline, 11 Jan 2022; Facebook profile, 06 Jan 2022)

She sustained an ankle injury while she was competing in the women's street event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She ended up reaching the finals and placed seventh. (philstar, 06 Aug 2021; spin, 28 Jul 2021)

Her preparation for the 2019 South East Asian Games in the Philippines was troubled by a recurring ankle injury dating back to 2014. (rappler, 28 Nov 2019)

She injured her right arm and fractured her collarbone in 2014, and was unable to compete for three months. (Olympics YouTube channel, 24 Jun 2021; spin, 29 Aug 2018; Facebook profile, 24 Nov 2014)

She first tried skateboarding in her early teens at Concave Park, a former private skate park in Cebu, Philippines. While her mother sold food outside the park, she would roam the park and make friends with the skateboarders there, including Jeff Gonzales and Daniel Bautista. She would borrow the boards of her new skater friends, until they eventually gave her enough parts to make her own board. "My parents, at first, they didn't want me to skate because it's not a 'girly thing'. It was a lifestyle. It instantly felt natural to me and I was just comfortable being on a skateboard - I was honestly surprised I could balance myself." (hypebae, 08 Oct 2021; spin, 07 Sep 2021, 10 Aug 2021; espn, 31 Aug 2018)

Her potential was noticed by Daniel Bautista, who became her first coach. He was impressed at the speed at which she could learn new tricks. "She asked if I could teach her this trick - the 360 flip. And she did it in like a matter of hours. I was like, 'Yo, that took me years!' Amazing right?" Bautista recalled. (Olympics YouTube channel, 24 Jun 2021; rappler, 29 Aug 2018; espn, 31 Aug 2018)

To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (inquirer, 06 Mar 2019; philstar, 04 Mar 2019)

Competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (hypebeast, 18 Oct 2021)

Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. (refinery29, 10 May 2021)

Philosophy:

"The moment you ride a skateboard, it's like you don't think of anything. You just want to ride. You want to enjoy it. The best way to escape problems is through a skateboard. Enjoy and treasure every moment." (scmp, 28 Jan 2020)

She was named the 2020 Skater of the Year at the Asia Skate Awards. (rappler, 04 Mar 2021)

She was flag bearer for the Philippines at the opening ceremony of the 2019 South East Asian Games in the Philippines. (sports, 30 Nov 2019)

In 2018 she was named the Philippine Sportswriters Association [PSA] Athlete of the Year. (philstar, 04 Mar 2019)

She was flag bearer for the Philippines at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (news, 31 Aug 2018)

She was recognised as one of the 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018 by Time magazine. (scmp, 28 Jan 2020)

Additional Information

Preferred stance
Goofy (vogue, 27 Aug 2022)

General
PROMOTING SKATEBOARDING
After winning gold at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, she was described by ESPN as the 'face of Philippine skateboarding'. She also competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and hoped her profile would increase cultural acceptance of the sport and public investment in parks in the Philippines. "I hope other people's perception [of skateboarding] will change. Skateboarding needs support, especially in the Philippines, in Cebu. Our wish as skaters is that we get indoor and outdoor skate parks. If you want more gold medals or medals in skate events, then support skateboarding. We have to wake up. Can you imagine if we have facilities, I'm sure there will be more medals to come. I hope they saw that here in skateboarding that there is really a big chance to enter the Olympics." (sports, 04 Aug 2021, 06 Dec 2019; espn, 31 Aug 2018)

FAMILY
She is the fourth of five children. Her father is a carpenter, and her mother sells street food in the Lahug area of Cebu, Philippines. She left school after grade seven to focus on skateboard training, and has used her prize money from skating to support her family. "I didn't have to stop studying, but I stopped because I wanted to help my parents earn some money, and to put my family in a better place. I use the money to help my family. Maybe build a family business, so that my mum and dad do not have to work anymore." (Olympics YouTube channel, 24 Jun 2021; olympics, 07 Aug 2020; scmp, 28 Jan 2020; philippines, 29 Aug 2018)

Milestones

She won the first gold medal in women's street skateboarding at the Asian Games when the sport made its debut at the 2018 Games in Indonesia. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Apr 2020)

She became the first Filipino skateboarder to receive an invitation to the X Games after being invited to the 2018 X Games in Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. In 2018 she also became the first Filipino skateboarder to compete in the Street League Skateboarding [SLS] by taking part in the SLS Pro Open in London, England. (Skateboarding and Roller Sports Association of the Philippines Facebook page, 19 Jun 2018; xgames, 2018; mylifeonboard, 26 May 2018; Street League Skateboarding Facebook page, 26 May 2018)

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event