Ismael Borrero Molina is a Greco-Roman wrestler from Cuba. He competed in the 59 kg weight category at the 2013, 2014 and 2015 World Championships and won gold medals in 2015 and 2019. Borrero won three consecutive Pan American Championships in 2012–2014 and a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics.
Aremi Fuentes Zavala is a Mexican weightlifter. She competes in the 69 and 76 kg categories, in addition to representing Mexico in international competitions.
Joseph Émilienne Essombe Tiako is a Cameroonian wrestler. She competed in the women's freestyle 53 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which she was eliminated in the round of 16 by Betzabeth Argüello.
Clementine Meukeugni Noumbissi is a Cameroonian weightlifter. She competed in the women's 90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. She competed in the women's 87 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Cuba competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cuban delegation was their smallest since 1964, which coincidentally was also in Tokyo. It was the nation's twenty-first appearance at the Summer Olympics. Cuba improved on its 2016 result, by winning 7 gold and 15 total medals after 5 and 11 in Rio.
Brayan Santiago Rodallegas Carvajal is a Colombian weightlifter, Pan American Champion and Pan American Games Champion competing in the 77 kg and 85 kg categories until 2018 and 89 kg and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Angie Paola Palacios Dájomes is an Ecuadorian weightlifter and two time Youth World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. She is the younger sister of three time Junior World Champion Neisi Dajomes.
Nour Abdelsalam is an Egyptian taekwondo practitioner. She is a gold medalist in the women's 49 kg event at the Islamic Solidarity Games, the African Games and several editions of the African Taekwondo Championships. She also represented Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Yusneylys Guzmán Lopez is a Cuban freestyle wrestler. She is a silver medalist at the Pan American Games and a gold medalist at the Pan American Wrestling Championships. She is also a two-time medalist at the Central American and Caribbean Games. She also competed in the women's 50 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Jourdan Elizabeth Delacruz is an American weightlifter. She is a four-time medalist, including three gold medals, at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships. In 2021, she represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
The Women's 49 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 24 July at the Tokyo International Forum.
Windy Cantika Aisah is an Indonesian weightlifter. She won the gold medal at the 2019 SEA Games and the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 49 kg event.
Verónica Estela Saladín Tolentino is a weightlifter from the Dominican Republic. She won the silver medal in the women's +87 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. She is also a three-time silver medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships and a two-time medalist, including gold, at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Jeanne Gaëlle Eyenga Mbo'ossi is a Cameroonian weightlifter. She represented Cameroon at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and she won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event. She won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 African Weightlifting Championships held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Olfides Sáez Vera is a Cuban weightlifter. In 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event at the Roma 2020 World Cup in Rome, Italy. He is also a four-time medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships.
Nancy Genzel Abouke is a weightlifter representing Nauru, one of only two athletes representing the country in the 2020 Summer Olympics after she was given a tripartite invitation. She participated in the Women's 76 kg category finishing 10th.
Rckaela Maree Ramos Aquino is a Guamanian freestyle wrestler. In the 57 kg category, Aquino won gold at the 2018 Micronesian Games. She won gold at the Oceanian Championships in 2018 and 2019 as well as silver in 2017. She qualified for the women's freestyle 53 kg into the Olympic competition, by progressing to the top two finals at the 2021 African & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Hammamet, Tunisia. She was eliminated in her first match in the women's 53 kg event.
Kuinini Manumua is a Tongan-American weightlifter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the Women's +87 kg category, the first athlete representing Tonga to do so. She placed in eighth.
Laura Herin Ávila is a Cuban wrestler. She competed in the women's freestyle 53 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She lost her first match against Pang Qianyu of China and she was then eliminated in the repechage by Jacarra Winchester of the United States. A few months later, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali, Colombia.
Hayley Marie Reichardt is an American weightlifter. She is a four-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships.
