Tamara Yajaira Salazar Arce (born 9 August 1997) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter.[2] She won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo 87 kg Olympic competition, and both silver and bronze medals at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships.[3]
![]() Tamara Salazar at the Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, California in 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Pusir Grande, Carchi Province, Ecuador[1] | 9 August 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85.15 kg (188 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Land | Ecuador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | –87 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Federacion Deportiva del Carchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editIn the Weightlifting World Championship in 2018, Ecuadorian Tamara Salazar won silver and bronze. Salazar, raised 137 kilos (302.03 pounds) in the Clean & Jerk and won the silver medal. The Belarusian Darya Naumava raised the same, but took the gold for having less body weight. The bronze went to Lidia Valentín of Spain with 136 kg. In the total, Salazar completed 242 kg and took bronze. Valentín (249 kg) and Naumava (245 kg) took gold and silver respectively.[4]
Salazar won the silver medal in the women's 87 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[5][6]
Salazar won the gold medal in the women's 87 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[7][8] She also won medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.[8]
She won the bronze medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina.
Major results
editYear | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2021 | Tokyo, Japan | 87 kg | 108 | 111 | 113 | 3 | 144 | 147 | 150 | 2 | 263 | |
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2017 | Anaheim, Vereinigte Staaten | 90 kg | 95 | 99 | 101 | 8 | 125 | 130 | 133 | 6 | 234 | 6 |
2018 | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 81 kg | 101 | 105 | 5 | 133 | 137 | 242 | ||||
2019 | Pattaya, Thailand | 87 kg | 105 | 108 | 4 | 140 | 144 | 252 |
References
edit- ^ Flores, Christian (24 April 2021). "A Tamara Salazar no hay quién le quite Tokio". Expreso.ec (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ IWRP profile
- ^ 2018 World Weightlifting Championships –81 kg results
- ^ "Ecuatoriana Tamara Salazar gana plata y bronce en Mundial de Halterofilia". 8 November 2018.
- ^ "Women's 87 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Samantha Arévalo se clasifica a sus terceros Juegos Olímpicos". Hola News. 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
- ^ Iveson, Ali (29 July 2022). "Rogers stars for US but Colombia dominate at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ a b "2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
External links
edit- Tamara Salazar at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Tamara Salazar at the International Weightlifting Results Project
- Tamara Salazar at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
- Tamara Salazar at Olympedia