2008 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Explained

The 2008 Pan American Weightlifting Championships were held in Callao, Peru from 19 March to 23 March 2008.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg ^[1]	Marvin López	Julio Salamanca	Diego Soto
62 kg	Oscar Figueroa	Diego Salazar	Lazaro Ruiz
69 kg	Edwin Mosquera	Luis Pineda	Raúl Sánchez
77 kg	José Ocando	Iván Cambar	Gabriel Mena
85 kg	Herbys Márquez	Jadier Valladares	Héctor Ballesteros
94 kg	Yoandry Hernández	Eduardo Guadamud	Jeffrey Wittmer
105 kg ^[2]	Bruno Laport Brandão	Akos Sandor	Boris Burov
+ 105 kg ^[3]	Casey Burgener	Victor Heredia	Julio Arteaga

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg ^[4]	Betsi Rivas	Lely Burgos	Karla Moreno
53 kg	Yuderqui Contreras	Ana Margot Lemos	Jackelina Heredia
58 kg	Alexandra Escobar	Geralee Vega	Rusmeris Villar
63 kg	Mercedes Pérez	Solenny Villasmil	Iriner Jimenez
69 kg ^[5]	Leydi Solís	Noemi Rivera	Jaqueline Antonia Ferreira
75 kg ^[6]	Jean Elisabeth Lassen	Ubaldina Valoyes	Natividad Domínguez
+ 75 kg	Seledina Nieves	Eva Dimas	Yinely Burgos

Notes and references

• Results

Notes and References

1. Efrain de la Rosa (DOM), originally 3rd, was disqualified
2. Yoel Sotolongo (CUB), originally 1st, and Victor Osorio (CHI) were disqualified
3. Joel Makencie (CUB), originally 1st, was disqualified
4. Yesenia Baldera (DOM), originally 3rd, was disqualified
5. Leuzkis Farias (VEN), originally 2nd, and Vanessa Nuñez (VEN), originally 3rd, were disqualified
6. Claret Bellorin (VEN), originally 3rd, was disqualified