Adeline Dumapong

Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta, born on 13 December 1973, is a Filipina retired Paralympic powerlifter and current coach. She became the first Filipina to win a Paralympic medal when she won bronze at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She was born in Kiangan, Ifugao, one of six children, and contracted polio at the age of three. She spent her school years at Bahay Mapagmahal, a housing institution for youth with disabilities, and at the NOH School for Crippled Children in Quezon City, and later earned a degree in computer secretarial studies from St. Paul University Quezon City. She took up powerlifting in 1997 on the encouragement of her friends and trained at the Philippine Orthopedic Center.