Wanda Rijo | |
National Team: | Dominican Republic |
Birth Date: | 26 November 1979 |
Birth Place: | San Pedro de Macoris |
Sport: | Weightlifting |
Wanda Rijo Contreras (born November 26, 1979) is a female former weightlifter from the Dominican Republic. She twice competed at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Rijo won the only gold medal for the Dominican Republic at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A year later she carried the flag for her native country at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
She is currently a pastor at Monte de Dios, La Romana.[1] She was inducted to the Dominican Republic Hall of Fame in 2016.[2]