Tamara Salazar Explained

Tamara Salazar
Birth Date:9 August 1997
Birth Place:Pusir Grande, Carchi Province, Ecuador[1]
Weight:85.15 kg
Country:Ecuador
Sport:Weightlifting
Event:–87 kg
Club:Federacion Deportiva del Carchi
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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]

Career

In 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 87kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[5] [6]

Salazar won the gold medal in the women's 87kg 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 81kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina.

Major results

YearVenueWeightSnatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)TotalRank
width=60 1width=60 2width=60 3width=45 Rankwidth=60 1width=60 2width=60 3width=45 Rank
Olympic Games
align=left 108 111 113 3 144 147 150 2 263
World Championships
align=left 95 99 101 8 125 130 133 6 234 6
align=left 101 105 107 5 133 136 137 242
105 108 111 4 140 144 147 252

Notes and References

  1. News: A Tamara Salazar no hay quién le quite Tokio. Expreso.ec. Christian. Flores. 24 April 2021. 6 August 2021. es.
  2. http://www.iwrp.net/search?view=contestant&id_zawodnik=13335 IWRP profile
  3. http://ashgabat2018.com/img/protocols/W81A.pdf 2018 World Weightlifting Championships –81 kg results
  4. Web site: Ecuatoriana Tamara Salazar gana plata y bronce en Mundial de Halterofilia. 8 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Women's 87 kg Results. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210802130745/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WLF/OG2020-_WLF_C73_WLFW87KG--------------FNL---------.pdf. 2 August 2021. 15 August 2021. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  6. Web site: 2021-06-19. Samantha Arévalo se clasifica a sus terceros Juegos Olímpicos. 2021-06-28. Hola News. en-GB.
  7. News: Iveson . Ali . 29 July 2022 . Rogers stars for US but Colombia dominate at Pan American Weightlifting Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 30 July 2022.
  8. Web site: 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220730112107/https://panampesas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RESULTBOOK.pdf . 30 July 2022 . 30 July 2022 . Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas.