Bella Paredes

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Bella Paredes
Personal information
Full nameBella Nancy Paredes Arreaga
Born (2002-02-25) 25 February 2002 (age 22)
Sport
CountryEcuador
SportWeightlifting
Weight class76 kg
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing  Ecuador
Pan American Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Bariloche 76 kg
Bolivarian Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Valledupar 76 kg S
Silver medal – second place 2022 Valledupar 76 kg CJ
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Heraklion 76 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Tashkent 76 kg
Junior Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cali–Valle 87 kg
Youth World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Las Vegas 76 kg

Bella Nancy Paredes Arreaga (born 25 February 2002)[1] is an Ecuadorian weightlifter. She won two silver medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[2] She is also a former artistic gymnast.[3]

Career

She competed in the girls' +63 kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[4] She finished in 4th place.[4] At the time, she finished in 5th place but Supatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance.[4][5] She won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships held in Las Vegas, United States.[6][7]

In 2021, she won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[8][9] She won the gold medal in the women's 87 kg event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali and Valle, Colombia.[1][10]

She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Heraklion, Greece.[11][12] She won two silver medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[13][2] She won the bronze medal in the women's 76 kg Snatch event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[14]

She competed in artistic gymnastics before switching to weightlifting.[3][15]

Achievements

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
World Championships
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 76 kg 101 105 108 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 130 134 135 6 238 5
Bolivarian Games
2022 Colombia Valledupar, Colombia 76 kg 98 102 105 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 126 131 131 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ a b "Women's 87 kg Results" (PDF). 2021 Junior Pan American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Bella Paredes, con el dulce peso de la ilusión". Expreso (in Spanish). 27 November 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ Oliver, Brian (28 November 2019). "Exclusive: Thai weightlifter loses Youth Olympics gold medal for doping". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 23 May 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Diamond, James (13 March 2019). "Yet more clean sweeps at IWF Youth World Championships in Las Vegas". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  7. ^ "2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships" (PDF). IWF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  8. ^ Oliver, Brian (28 May 2021). "Weightlifting glory for Russia and Moldova at Junior World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  9. ^ "2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Bella Paredes, la primera mujer ecuatoriana en conseguir ORO individual en Cali Valle 2021". Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano (in Spanish). 29 November 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  11. ^ Oliver, Brian (7 May 2022). "Weightlifting gold medal for displaced Ukrainian at Junior World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  12. ^ "2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  13. ^ Núñez, Felipe (4 July 2022). "Neisi Dajomes obtiene doble medalla de oro en los Juegos Bolivarianos". Primicias.ec. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  14. ^ "2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). IWF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  15. ^ "Bella Paredes, la pesista de Babahoyo que se coronó campeona mundial". Primicias.ec (in Spanish). 22 May 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

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