Visitacion Badana Ribagorda was an athlete who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. She is one of a select few Filipino women to win an Asian Games gold medal in athletics.
At the age of 21, she won the gold medal in the Women's Long Jump with a leap of 5.64 meters. She then competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, finishing 24th of 30 athletes in the Women's long jump with a leap of 5.59 meters. She held the National Record until it was broken by Lydia Rosalada (later Lydia Silva Netto) with a leap of 5.70 meters and then surpassed in 1970 by Heptathlete Lolita Lagrosas at the Pre-UAAP meet who leaped 5.71 meters.
At the age of 21, she won the gold medal in the Women's Long Jump with a leap of 5.64 meters. She then competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, finishing 24th of 30 athletes in the Women's long jump with a leap of 5.59 meters. She held the National Record until it was broken by Lydia Rosalada (later Lydia Silva Netto) with a leap of 5.70 meters and then surpassed in 1970 by Heptathlete Lolita Lagrosas at the Pre-UAAP meet who leaped 5.71 meters.
GAMES
1960 Summer Olympics, Rome