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| Born | 5 July 1998 Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | +87 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Valentyna Kisil (born 5 July 1998 in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She won silver medal at the 2017 European Championships in Split, Croatia, [2] and bronze medal at the 2023 Europeans in Yerevan, Armenia. [3] [4]
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2023 |  Yerevan, Armenia | +87 kg | 105 | 108 | 111 |  | 126 | 130 | 133 | 4 | 244 |  |
| 2022 |  Tirana, Albania | 87 kg | 100 | 6 | 113 | 116 | 7 | 216 | 6 | |||
| 2021 |  Moscow, Russia | 87 kg | 100 | 104 | 5 | 117 | 122 | 11 | 221 | 8 | ||
| 2017 |  Split, Croatia | 90 kg | 105 | 108 | 110 |  | 124 | 127 | 130 | | 240 | |
Tatiana Yuryevna Kashirina is a Russian Olympic weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist, five time World Champion and eight time European Champion competing in the +90 kg and +75 kg categories until 2018 and +87 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. On 9 September 2023, the Court of Arbitration for Sport annulled over four years of her results due to drugs offenses, stating, "All the competitive results obtained by Tatiana Kashirina from 1 April 2013 until 19 June 2017 were disqualified, with all the resulting consequences, including the forfeiture of any titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money."
Kuo Hsing-chun is a Taiwanese Amis weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist, five time world champion, two time Universiade champion, Asian Games champion, and five time Asian champion, competing in the 58 kg division until 2018 and 59 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. She has set 11 senior world records in her career.
Weightlifting was introduced to Armenia in the late 1920s and became widely practiced after World War II. Today, it is one of the country's most popular sports. The sport is regulated by the Armenian Weightlifting Federation. The first weightlifters from Soviet Armenia made successful appearances the international stage in the 1970s. Vardan Militosyan won a silver at the 1976 Olympics, and later Yurik Vardanyan became an Olympic, World and European champion through the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Oksen Mirzoyan and Yurik Sarkisyan rose to top positions in the 1980s. After its independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia successfully held its weightlifting traditions and continues to be one of the strongest nations in Europe. In 2008, the Armenia team placed first at the European Championship. In the 2008 Summer Olympics Armenia won three bronze medals. Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan is Armenia's only world champion with his successful appearance in 2010.
Iryna Mykhailivna Dekha is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She is a two-time Olympian and a four-time European champion.
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.
Dilara Narin is a Turkish weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey. She won the bronze medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania.
Kamila Konotop is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a four-time medalist, including three gold medals, at the European Weightlifting Championships. In 2021, Konotop represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Sarah Fischer is an Austrian weightlifter. She is a three-time medalist at the European Weightlifting Championships. She also represented Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Her brother is weightlifter David Fischer.
Tatev Hakobyan is an Armenian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia. She also won the bronze medal in the women's 90 kg event at the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships held in Split, Croatia.
Nina Sterckx is a Belgian weightlifter. She is a three-time medalist at the European Weightlifting Championships and achieved 5th place representing Belgium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Alina Marushchak is a Ukrainian weightlifter. In 2021, she won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at both the World Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and the European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, Russia.
Elena Cîlcic is a Moldovan weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 87 kg event at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships held in Moscow, Russia.
Izabella Yaylyan is an Armenian weightlifter. In 2021, she represented Armenia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 7th place in the women's 59 kg event. She won the bronze medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia.
Svitlana Samuliak is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She is also a two-time silver medalist at the European Weightlifting Championships.
Anhelina Lomachynska is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She is a silver and bronze medalist of the European Weightlifting Championships.
Mariia Hanhur is a Ukrainian weightlifter, and European Champion. She won the gold medal in the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships in the 64 kg event. She won the silver medal in her event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia.
Daniela Ivanova is a Latvian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia.
Anastasiia Manievska is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She won silver medal at the 2022 European Championships in Tirana, Albania, finishing second behind Solfrid Koanda from Norway. She repeteated the success at the 2023 European Championships.
Nadiia Shpilka is a Ukrainian weightlifter. At the age of 29, she won bronze at the 2023 European Championships in Yerevan, Armenia. She was third behind her teammate Kamila Konotop and Belgium's Nina Sterckx. She also won the bronze medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events.
Hanna Davydova is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She's 2024 European champion in Sofia in 64 kg event.
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