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| Born | 9 January 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Venezuela | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's 58 kg | ||||||||||||||
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Yusleidy Figueroa (born 9 January 1993) is a Venezuelan weightlifter. She competed in the women's 58 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [1] She also represented Venezuela at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 6th place in the women's 59 kg event. [2]
Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera is a Colombian weightlifter, and Olympic Champion (gold-medalist) competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. He was born in the rural township of Zaragoza, located in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Aisuluu Tynybekova is a Kyrgyz freestyle wrestler. She won the silver medal in the women's 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also competed in the women's 63 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the first woman to wrestle for Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics. A legal dispute threatened to prevent Tynybekova from competing in London, but the case was delayed until after the Games. Tynybekova was eliminated in the 1/8 finals by Henna Johansson.
Taybe Mustafa Yusein is a Bulgarian wrestler. She competes in the 59 kg division and has won a total of six World championship medals, and eight European championship medals.
Ecuador competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1924.
Elvismar Rodríguez Ruiz is a judoka from Venezuela. She represented her country in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women's 70 kg competition, but lost to Antónia Moreira of Angola in the first round via ippon. She also competed in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Sabine Kusterer is a German weightlifter. She competed in the women's 58 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also competed in the women's 59 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Neisi Patricia Barrera Dájomes is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, 4 time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and 3 time Junior World Champion competing 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. She is the older sister of Angie Palacios.
Julia Figueroa is a Spanish judoka. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's 48 kg event, in which she was eliminated in the second round by Dayaris Mestre Álvarez.
Venezuela 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, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's nineteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Sarah Ann Hildebrandt is an American freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She is a three-time medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a gold medalist at the Pan American Games. She is also a seven-time gold medalist at the Pan American Wrestling Championships.
Anastasia Nichita is a Moldovan freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the 59 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She is a three-time gold medalist in the 59 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships. She also represented Moldova at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Lyubov Mikhailovna Ovcharova is a Russian freestyle wrestler. She won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. In 2021, she competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Claudymar Garcés Sequera is a Venezuelan karateka. She won the silver medal in the women's kumite 61 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.
Ghofrane Belkhir is a Tunisian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She also won the gold medal in the 58 kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Belkhir broke the world record for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total in the women's 59-kilogram class weightlifting event at the 5th International Solidarity Weightlifting Championship in Cairo, Egypt in December 2018. As of May 2020, she holds the African junior records for these events in the women's 59 kg weight class.
Karen León is a Venezuelan judoka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 78 kg event at the 2020 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Anriquelis Barrios is a Venezuelan judoka. She is a gold medalist in the women's 63 kg event at the Central American and Caribbean Games. She is also a silver medalist in her event at the Pan American Games and the Pan American Judo Championships.
Alla Belinska is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a three-time medalist, including gold, at the European Wrestling Championships. She represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Veronika Gennadievna Chumikova is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Chuvash heritage. She is a silver medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. She also won a medal at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on five occasions.
Dora Tchakounté is a French weightlifter born in Yaoundé, Cameroon. She won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships held in Moscow, Russia. At the time, she won the bronze medal but in October 2021, this became the silver medal after original gold medalist Boyanka Kostova of Azerbaijan was banned for testing positive for traces of stanozolol. She also represented France at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Jowita Wrzesień is a Polish freestyle wrestler. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 59 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.
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