and Araullo High School. She retired from teaching in 1993. Death On January 16, 2020, Coloso-Espino was admitted at the Medicus Medical Center in Iloilo, due to chronic respiratory infection. She was able to recover from hospitalization but remained frail and asthmatic. Later confined in her residence in Mandurriao in Iloilo City, she died on August 12, 2021, sixteen days before her 84th birthday. Legacy With ten medals (3 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze medals), Coloso-Espino holds the record for the most number of medals won by a Filipino athlete - male or female - in the Asian Games. She and fellow swimmer Jocelyn von Giese were the first Filipina athletes to win gold medals in the Asian Games. She is one of few Pinays to win at least three gold medals in the quadrennial multi-sport meet, along with sprinter Mona Sulaiman and bowler Bong Coo. In 2016, Coloso-Espino was inducted into the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame as part of the second batch of inductees. She is the first Filipina swimmer to earn the accolade. References External links 1937 births 2021 deaths Filipino female swimmers Olympic swimmers of the Philippines Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 1954 Asian Games Swimmers at the 1958 Asian Games Swimmers at the 1962 Asian Games Sportspeople from Iloilo Filipino female freestyle swimmers Filipino female butterfly swimmers Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines Asian Games silver medalists for the Philippines Asian Games bronze medalists for the Philippines Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games Filipino expatriates Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines