Yudelina Mejía Explained

Yudelina Mejía Peguero
Birth Date:1997 6, df=yes
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Country:Dominican Republic
Sport:Weightlifting
Event:81 kg

Yudelina Mejía Peguero (born 4 June 1997)[1] is a Dominican Republic weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.[2] [3] She is also a three-time silver medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships. Mejía represented the Dominican Republic at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

Career

Mejía won the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2021 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[4] She also won the silver medal in the same event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[5] In the same year, Mejía competed in the women's 81kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[6]

Mejía won two medals, including gold, at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games held in San Salvador, El Salvador. She won the gold medal in the women's 87kg Snatch event and the silver medal in the women's 87kg Clean & Jerk event. A few months later, she competed in the women's 81kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[7] In October 2023, Mejía won the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.[2] [3]

In February 2024, Mejía won the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela. In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81kg event at the Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[8]

Achievements

YearVenueWeightSnatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)TotalRank
width=65 1width=65 2width=65 3width=45 Rankwidth=65 1width=65 2width=65 3width=45 Rank
Olympic Games
align=left 111 111 115 145 150 157 256 5
World Championships
align=left 107 112 112 10 136 141 142 9 243 10
align=left 105 105 110 6 130 130 130
Pan American Games
align=left 81 kg 107 111 114 130 133 144 244
Pan American Championships
align=left 81 kg 102 106 109 125 131 136 242 4
align=left 81 kg 105 108 111 130 130 134 241
align=left 81 kg 104 109 113 128 135 139 252

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Women's 81 kg Entry List . https://web.archive.org/web/20231105111542/https://wrs-panam2023-resources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/santiago/reports/WLFW81KG--------------------------.C32C_2_0.pdf . 5 November 2023 . 5 November 2023 . 2023 Pan American Games.
  2. News: Oliver . Brian . 24 October 2023 . Colombia take team honours and American Reeves stars at Pan American Games weightlifting . InsideTheGames.biz . 25 October 2023.
  3. Web site: Weightlifting Medalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20231025102623/https://wrs-panam2023-resources.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/santiago/reports/WLF-------------------------------.C93_11_0.pdf . 25 October 2023 . 25 October 2023 . 2023 Pan American Games.
  4. News: 10 November 2021 . Colombia se impone en el Panamericano de Halterofilia; Ecuador finaliza en el octavo lugar . es . El Universo . 8 August 2022.
  5. 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.
  6. Web site: 2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20221217071304/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/12/Bogota-Results-Book.pdf . 17 December 2022 . 17 December 2022 . IWF.
  7. Web site: 2023 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20230917164936/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/09/2023_KSA_ResultsBook_.pdf . 17 September 2023 . 17 September 2023 . International Weightlifting Federation.
  8. Web site: Weightlifting Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811193408/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WLF/OG2024_WLF_B99_WLF-------------------------------.pdf . 11 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . 2024 Summer Olympics.