[Sport] Ecuador reaches three world vice championships in weightlifting, youth category

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The Guayaquil Bella Paredes hung a bronze medal and two silver in the 76 kilogram division.

The Guayaquil Bella Paredes gave Ecuador a joy, this Friday, by obtaining two silver and one bronze medals during the World Weightlifting Championship, youth category, which is held in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan; while her compatriot Javier Grefa hung a silver medal.

The tricolor, who competes in the 76 kg division, at the start was 1 kg (98-99) behind the American Anna McElderry, to obtain the silver medal; while the winner of this specialty, the Russian Iana Sotieva, lifted 118 kilograms.

Paredes in his first start of the boot lifted 91 kilos over her head, in the second presentation of her on the platform he increased the bar to 95 kilograms and at the end of her participation he kept the 98 kilos that gave him the medal made of bronze.

In the clean and jerk, the Ecuadorian was stronger. She started with 112 on the bar; Then, for her second outing, she increased the weight to 116 kilograms and closed her participation with 119 kilos that were unattainable for Ryna Litoshyk, from Belarus, who reached 117 kilos in her two outings and when she was looking to pass the Ecuadorian mark, with 120 kilos on the bar, could not finish the lift.

The Russian was out of the lot since she only needed two exits to the platform to reach the 125 kilos that allowed her to seize her second world gold medal.

With the marks in the snatch and clean and jerk, the Ecuadorian completed 217 kilos in the Olympic total to finish in the second box and secured her second world silver medal. The first place was occupied by the Russian who reached 233 kilos, while the Belarusian, with 215 kilos, settled in third place.

In another participation of the selected ladies from Ecuador, Jenifer Samanta Becerra finished in sixth place of the Olympic total of the 59 kilogram division.

Regarding the participation of the new world vice-champion, Luis Zambrano, president of the Ecuadorian Federation of Weightlifting (FELP), said: “The FELP is fulfilling processes that aim to strengthen this sport in high sport competition, we set short objectives In the medium term, the development of the National Championships is maintained at an early age and we are strengthening the permanent concentrates with the best talents in our sport. There is sports wood, you just have to know how to carve it ”.

 

In males

The men's participation allowed Ecuador to achieve two bronze medals and one silver medal.

The first bronze metal was obtained by Benjamín Zurita, in the clean and jerk during the 55 kilogram competition. He lifted 127 kilos, while before, at the start, he finished fourth with 101 kilos. The Olympic total left the tricolor weightlifter in third place with 228, overtaken by Uzbekistan's Ogabek Nefasov, who reached 233 kilos, and secured silver; while Ablay Auyelkhanov, from Kazakhstan, completed 248 kilos to seize the gold medal.

In another tricolor participation, Javier Grefa, in the 89 kilogram division, hung a silver medal by placing himself in second place in the clean and jerk with 190 kilos, 1 behind the champion Tudor Bratu, from Moldova, who left in 191 as his best record.

At the start, the Ecuadorian did not perform well as he settled in eleventh place with 141 kilograms with two wrong lifts. In the Olympic total, the Ecuadorian completed 331 kilograms that did not reach him to be on the podium.