Yenny Sinisterra Explained

Yenny Sinisterra
Birth Date:2000 5, df=yes
Country:Colombia
Sport:Weightlifting

Yenny Sinisterra (born 4 May 2000)[1] is a Colombian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.[2] [3] A month earlier, at the 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Suva, Fiji, she won the silver medal in the women's 55kg event.[1]

In 2017, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the Bolivarian Games held in Santa Marta, Colombia.[4] In that same year, she also competed in the women's 53 kg event at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, United States.[5] The following year, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2018 South American Games held in Cochabamba, Bolivia.[6] She also competed in the women's 55 kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.[7]

In 2019, she competed in the women's 55 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Pattaya, Thailand.[8] She finished in 5th place.

In February 2020, she was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroid boldenone.[9], her case is being contested at the Court of Arbitration for Sport as she may have ingested it after eating tainted meat and in Colombia boldenone is used for fattening cattle.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200526190705/https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2019/06/Results_book.pdf. 26 May 2020. 4 June 2020. IWF.
  2. News: Gillen . Nancy . 29 July 2019 . Mixed day for Canada in Lima 2019 rugby sevens as women retain Pan American title . InsideTheGames.biz . 27 July 2022.
  3. Web site: Weightlifting Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200306144833/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/lima-2019/WL_Results_Book_1.0.pdf. 6 March 2020. 22 August 2020. 2019 Pan American Games.
  4. Web site: 2017 Bolivarian Games. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711193950/https://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=411. 11 July 2020. 23 August 2020. IWF.
  5. Web site: 2017 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210625132851/https://lsaf.lt/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ResultsBook_Anaheim.pdf. 25 June 2021. 25 June 2021. lsaf.lt.
  6. Web site: 2018 South American Games. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200711063520/https://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=430. 11 July 2020. 23 August 2020. IWF.
  7. Web site: 2018 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20181111043844/https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2018/11/Results_Book_2018_Ashgabat.pdf. 11 November 2018. 23 June 2021. International Weightlifting Federation.
  8. Web site: 2019 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210725001808/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2019/09/job_934-Pattaya_2019.pdf. 25 July 2021. 25 July 2021. International Weightlifting Federation.
  9. News: Oliver. Brian. 22 December 2020. Colombia faces outright ban from Tokyo 2020 weightlifting after trio suspended. InsideTheGames.biz. live. 30 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201228075256/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1102317/weightlifting-colombia-tokyo-2020-doping. 28 December 2020.
  10. News: Oliver. Brian. 30 December 2020. Exclusive: Colombian weightlifting chief vows "we will compete in Tokyo – we do not support cheating". InsideTheGames.biz. live. 30 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201230190128/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1102508/colombia-vows-to-compete-in-tokyo. 30 December 2020.

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