Lydia de Vega

Lydia de Vega-Mercado (December 26, 1964 – August 10, 2022) was a Filipino athlete. She was known as Asia's fastest woman in the 1980s. She represented the Philippines at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
In 2018, De Vega was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. She died on August 10, 2022 from the disease at a hospital in Makati, Philippines at the age of 57.