Hergie Bacyadan

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Hergie Bacyadan
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Bacyadan competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Birth nameHergie Tao-Wag Bacyadan
National teamPhilippines
Born (1994-11-04) November 4, 1994 (age 30)
Quezon City, Philippines
Home town Tanudan, Kalinga
Years active2016–
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
SpouseLady Denily Digo
Sport
CountryPhilippines
Sport Boxing, Kickboxing, Wushu, Vovinam
Boxing career
Statistics
Stance Orthodox [1]
Boxing record [2]
Total fights14
Wins9
Wins by KO0
Losses5
Medal record
Women's wushu
Representing the Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Kazan –65 kg
Sanda World Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2017 Foshan–65 kg
Women's vovinam
Representing the Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Ho Chi Minh–66 kg
SEA Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Cambodia –65 kg
Women's kickboxing
Representing the Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines
Asian Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 Phnom PenhK1 -75 kg

Hergie Tao-Wag Bacyadan (born November 4, 1994) [3] [1] is a Filipino boxer and kickboxer; Also a former wushu and vovinam practitioner, Bacyadan has competed in the women's division in all sports.

Contents

He [a] is the first Vovinam World Championships gold medalist for the Philippines and a boxer who has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career

Martial arts

Bacyadan is a martial artist who engages in wushu and vovinam.

Wushu

Bacyadan first made it to the Philippine national wushu team in 2016. [6] He took part at the inaugural Sanda Asian Cup in 2017 held in Foshan, China, winning a silver in the 65-kilogram division. At the 2017 World Wushu Championships in Kazan, Russia, he won another silver. [7]

Vovinam

Bacyadan would briefly compete in vovinam, and lost weight as part of his preparation for the vovinam competition at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia. [5]

Bacyadan competed in the 2023 Vovinam World Championships in the women's combat 66 kg division title and became the Philippines' first vovinam champion, winning against Mariana Abdeenko in the final. [8]

In response, Russia filed a protest calling to nullify the result and issue a ban against Filipino athletes for future competitions, claiming that it was because Bacaydan is a "man". The Philippine federation condemned its Russian counterpart, with Bacyadan affirming that he is eligible to compete as he is "born female" and has not taken male hormones or gender surgery, due to the fact that such procedures would result in disqualification. [9]

Kickboxing

Bacyadan also have competed in kickboxing. He won a gold medal in the women's K1 -75kg division of the 2024 Asian Kickboxing Championships in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [10] This qualified him a berth in the 2025 World Combat Games in China. [11]

Boxing

Bacyadan’s shift to boxing was marked by his participation at the 2019 ASBC Asian Grand Slam Boxing Championships in Xiamen, China as part of his bid to qualify for in the Summer Olympics. [12]

Bacyadan qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris through winning his quota bout at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 against Maryelis Yriza of Venezuela. [13] [14]

Bacyadan prefers sparring with cisgender male boxers as part of his practice, which he believes benefits him in women's boxing. [15]

In the 2024 Summer Olympics, Li Qian would eliminate him early via unanimous decision in round 16 of the women's 75 kg (middleweight) division. [16] Shortly after the end of his stint, Bacyadan have expressed openness to turn to professional boxing. [17]

Personal life

Bacyadan is a transgender man. [18] [19] He discussed his gender identity in an interview with Preview, acknowledging that he was born as a woman but that his "heart and mind" are that of a man. [20] Despite this, Bacyadan competes in the women’s divisions, as he has not undergone any hormone replacement therapy or surgery which would risk his eligibility. [21]

He has stood by Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yuting of Taiwan who are involved in their own sex verification controversy in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Bacyadan affirmed Khelif and Lin are cis women and are fully qualified to participate and disavowed misinformation in social media that he has called for the ban of the two boxers. [22]

Bacyadan hails from Tanudan, Kalinga [23] and is of the Kalinga ethnic group. [24] [25] [26] [27] He says that his tribe accepts his gender identity, and he is allowed to wear traditional men's clothes such as the bahag . [24]

Bacyadan describes his sexual orientation as being "attracted to women". [9] He married Lady Denily Digo, a bisexual cis woman, in Utah in 2022. The couple are online content creators with a presence on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. [28]

Notes

  1. Hergie Bacyadan is a trans man who was assigned female at birth and competes in women's sports; he has not undergone any surgery for his masculine features. He has no publicly stated pronoun preference, [4] although a One Sports article published through correspondence with Bacyadan's partner asserts he prefers he/him pronouns. [5]

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