Weightlifting at the 2015 Pan American Games

Weightlifting at the XVII Pan American Games
Venue Oshawa Sports Centre
Dates July 11–15, 2015
Competitors 121 from 24 nations
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Weightlifting at the
2015 Pan American Games
Men Women
  56 kg     48 kg  
62 kg 53 kg
69 kg 58 kg
77 kg 63 kg
85 kg 69 kg
94 kg 75 kg
105 kg +75 kg
+105 kg

Weightlifting competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto will be held from July 11 to 15 at the General Motors Centre (Oshawa Sports Centre) in Oshawa.[1] Due to naming rights the arena will be known as the latter for the duration of the games.[2] A total of fifteen weightlifting events will be held: eight for men and seven for women.[3]

Venue

The General Motors Centre (Oshawa Sports Centre), in Oshawa, was the venue for the weightlifting competitions

The competitions will take place at the General Motors Centre (Oshawa Sports Centre) located about in the city of Oshawa, about 60 kilometers from the athletes village. The arena will have a reduced capacity (from its normal of about 5,500) of about 3,000 people per session.[2] The venue will also host boxing competitions later during the games.[4]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the weightlifting competitions:[5]

FFinal
Event↓/Date → Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15
Men's 56 kg F
Men's 62 kg F
Men's 69 kg F
Men's 77 kg F
Men's 85 kg F
Men's 94 kg F
Men's 105 kg F
Men's +105 kg F
Women's 48 kg F
Women's 53 kg F
Women's 58 kg F
Women's 63 kg F
Women's 69 kg F
Women's 75 kg F
Women's +75 kg F

Medal table

Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Colombia 8 3 2 13
2 Venezuela 2 4 1 7
3 Cuba 2 2 1 5
4 Brazil 1 1 2 4
5 United States 1 1 0 2
6 Dominican Republic 1 0 3 4
7 Ecuador 0 1 3 4
8 Mexico 0 1 2 3
9 Canada 0 1 1 2
10 Chile 0 1 0 1
Total 15 15 15 45

Medalists

Men's events

Francis Luna-Grenier lifts during the men's 69 kg weightlifting competition at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto
Event Gold Silver Bronze
56 kg
Habib de las Salas
 Colombia
Carlos Berna
 Colombia
Luis García
 Dominican Republic
62 kg
Óscar Figueroa
 Colombia
Francisco Mosquera
 Colombia
Jesús López
 Venezuela
69 kg
Luis Javier Mosquera
 Colombia
Bredni Roque
 Mexico
Francis Luna-Grenier
 Canada
77 kg
Addriel La O
 Cuba
Junior Sánchez
 Venezuela
Jhor Moreno
 Colombia
85 kg
Yoelmis Hernández
 Cuba
Yadier Nuñez
 Cuba
Juan Ruiz Morelos
 Colombia
94 kg
Kendrick Farris
 United States
Norik Vardanian
 United States
Javier Vanega
 Cuba
105 kg
Jesús González
 Venezuela
Mateus Gregorio Machado
 Brazil
Jorge Arroyo
 Ecuador
+105 kg
Fernando Reis
 Brazil
George Kobaladze
 Canada
Fernando Salas Manguis
 Ecuador

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg
Cándida Vásquez
 Dominican Republic
Ana Segura
 Colombia
Beatriz Pirón
 Dominican Republic
53 kg
Rusmeris Villar
 Colombia
Génesis Rodríguez
 Venezuela
Yafreisy Silvestre
 Dominican Republic
58 kg
Lina Rivas
 Colombia
Yusleidy Figueroa
 Venezuela
Quisia Guicho
 Mexico
63 kg
Mercedes Pérez
 Colombia
Marina Rodríguez
 Cuba
Bruna Nascimento Piloto
 Brazil
69 kg
Leydi Solís
 Colombia
Neisi Dajomes
 Ecuador
Aremi Fuentes
 Mexico
75 kg
Ubaldina Valoyes
 Colombia
Fernanda Valdés
 Chile
Jaqueline Ferreira
 Brazil
+75 kg
Yaniuska Espinosa
 Venezuela
Naryury Perez
 Venezuela
Oliba Nieve
 Ecuador

Participating nations

A total of 24 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

A total of 125 weightlifters (69 male and 56 women) will qualify to compete at the games. Qualification was done at the 2013 and 2014 Pan American Championships, where nations had points assigned per athlete's finishing position. The totals of both Championships were added and quotas were then awarded to the top 20 men's teams and 18 women's teams. A further two wildcards (one for each gender) was awarded.[6]

See also

References

  1. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Oshawa Sports Centre". toronto2015.org. TO2015. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. "Weightlifting". toronto2015.org. TO2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. McMillan, Ian (17 July 2014). "Cashing in on the Pan Am Games in Durham". DurhamRegion.com. Metroland Media Group. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  6. "Sport Technical Manual Weightlifting". http://www.scribd.com/. TO2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015. External link in |website= (help)
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