Diego Fernando Salazar Quintero is a Colombian weightlifter, Olympic medalist and two times gold medal winner at the Pan American Games. He was born in Barranquilla.
Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter who won four world championships. On 12 December, 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin set two world records in the −105 kg class. He lifted 246 kg in the clean and jerk and 437 kg in the total. Ilyin was named IWF World Weightlifter of the Year four times: in 2005, 2006, 2014, and 2015.
Beatriz Elizabeth Pirón Candelario is a Dominican weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in snatch at the 2011 Youth World Championships and gold at the 2011 Youth Pan American Championships. She went to the 2012 Summer Olympics ranking in the 9th place and the 2016 Summer Olympics ranking fourth.
Fernando Saraiva Reis is a Brazilian weightlifter. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Rio Games, finishing 11th and 5th, respectively. He won a bronze medal in the 2018 World Championships and is a three-time Pan American Games champion.
Gor Minasyan is an Armenian-Bahraini weightlifter, and Olympic silver medalist (2016) competing in the super-heavyweight category.
Génesis Lourdes Rodríguez Gómez is a Venezuelan weightlifter, competing in the 53 kg category and representing Venezuela at international competitions.
Martha Ann "Mattie" Rogers is an American Olympic weightlifter. She is a four-time silver medalist at the World Weightlifting Championships. She holds the United States record in the snatch, clean & jerk, and total in the 76 kg category. She competed for the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 87 kg category.
Adkhamjon Ergashev is an Uzbek weightlifter competing in the 62 kg category until 2018, and the 61 kg and 67 kg categories starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Gaber Ahmed Farhan Mohamed, known as Gaber Mohamed, is an Egyptian male weightlifter, competing in the 105 kg category and representing Egypt at international competitions. He participated in the men's 105 kg event at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing in twelfth position. Mohamed also won the gold medal in the same weight category at the 2015 African Games.
Hernán Moises Viera Espinoza is a Peruvian male weightlifter, competing in the 105 kg category and representing Peru at international competitions. He participated in the men's 105 kg event at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing in thirteenth position.
Parminder Phangura is a Canadian male weightlifter, competing in the +105 kg category and representing Canada at international competitions. He competed at world championships, such as the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships. He participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the +105 kg event.
Lauititi Lui is a Samoan male weightlifter, competing in the +105 kg category and representing Samoa at international competitions. He participated at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the +105 kg event. He won the silver medal at the 2015 Pacific Games, lifting a total of 362 kg and the bronze medal at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships, lifting a total of 368 kg. He won the bronze medal at the 2013 Pacific Mini Games.
Maude G. Charron is a Canadian weightlifter, who competes in the 63/64 kg category and represents Canada at international competitions. She is an Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the women's 64 kg division. Charron also owns the clean & jerk Commonwealth Games record, the snatch and total Canadian weightlifting records, all the Panamerican records in her weight class.
Katherine Vibert is an American weightlifter, Olympian, World Champion, Pan American champion and Junior World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 71 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. She is a winner of the IWF Female Lifter of the Year for 2019.
Francisco Antonio Mosquera Valencia is a Colombian weightlifter, World Champion, three-time Pan American Champion and Pan American Games Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
This article lists the main weightlifting events and their results for 2016.
Clarence Cummings Jr. is an American Olympic weightlifter. He is a two-time Youth Pan-American champion, Junior Pan-American champion, two-time Pan-American Champion, two-time IWF Youth World champion, and four-time IWF Junior World champion. CJ has earned 38 international medals, broken four International Weightlifting Federation Youth and Junior world records, and currently holds 23 USA Weightlifting American records.
Wesley Brian "Wes" Kitts is an American weightlifter, two time Pan American Champion and Pan American Games Champion competing in the 105 kg category until 2018 and 109 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
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