Sprint legend and Filipino sports icon Lydia de Vega-Mercado passed away on Wednesday after her long battle with breast cancer. She was 57.

Her daughter Stephanie Mercado-de Koenigswarter announced her death in a Facebook post.

"On behalf of our family, it is with absolute grief that I announce the death of my mother, Lydia De Vega this evening, August 10, 2022, at the Makati Medical Center," she wrote.

"She fought the very good fight and is now at peace," she added.

Last July 20, Mercado-De Koenigswarter made public her mother’s health status, noting that the Philippine sports great “is in very critical condition.”

She then asked the public for prayers and donations as the retired sports star had been battling stage 4 breast cancer since 2018.

During the 2019 Southeast Asian Games held in the Philippines, De Vega carried the SEA Games Federation along with other sports legends in the country.