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Neisi Dajomes

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Dájomes and the second or maternal family name is Barrera.

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera
Personal information
Born (1998-05-12) 12 May 1998 (age 26)
Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight75.80 kg (167 lb)
Sport
CountryEcuador
SportWeightlifting
Event–76 kg
Coached byMayra Hoyos[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 118 kg (2021)
  • Clean and jerk: 145 kg (2021)
  • Total: 263 kg (2021)
Medal record
Representing  Ecuador
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo –76 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris –81 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Anaheim –75 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Ashgabat –76 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Pattaya –76 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima –76 kg
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto –69 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Miami –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Santo Domingo –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Guatemala City –76 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá –81 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Bariloche –81 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Caracas –81 kg
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Cochabamba –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción –87 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Tbilisi –69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tokyo –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –75 kg

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, who is the 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, a 6 time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and a 3 time Junior World Champion. As of 2024, she is the only female Ecuadorian athlete to win multiple Olympic medals. She competed in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2] She is the older sister of Angie Palacios.

Career

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Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[3] finishing seventh overall.

She became junior world champion in 2017 in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in 2018. She won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.[4]

In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships[5] winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in the 76 kg division.[6] In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led Aremi Fuentes by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal.[7]

Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[8]

She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[9][10] She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.[10] She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[11][12] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[13][14]

Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called Shell: Land of Champions.[15]

In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called Neisi: The Power of a Dream. It is expected to be released in November 2023.[16]

On 6 June 2024, the Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee, named her and the ecuadorian olympic walker Brian Pintado as the official flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, however was the dressage rider Julio Mendoza Loor, who was the partner in carry the flag in the opening ceremony, replacing to Pintado.[17] In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81 kg event.[18] She was leading after the Snatch with a 122 kg lift and went down to the third place after the Clean & Jerk with a total of 267 kg.[18]

Achievements

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Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 69 kg 100 104 107 — 130 135 135 — 237 7
2020 Tokyo, Japan 76 kg 111 115 118 — 135 140 145 — 263 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Paris, France 81 kg 118 118 122 — 145 145 151 — 267 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships
2015 Houston, United States 69 kg 98 102 103 9 125 130 132 10 233 10
2017 Anaheim, United States 75 kg 103 106 108 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 128 132 135 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 240 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 76 kg 110 115 117 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 137 142 146 4 259 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2019 Pattaya, Thailand 76 kg 110 115 116 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 135 139 139 4 245 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2022 Bogotá, Colombia 81 kg 116 116 117 4 141 145 146 5 258 5
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 81 kg 115 118 120 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) — — — — — —
IWF World Cup
2024 Phuket, Thailand 81 kg 118 121 123 1st place, gold medalist(s) 143 146 — 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 269 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto, Canada 69 kg 98 98 100 — 121 123 125 — 225 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019 Lima, Peru 76 kg 109 112 115 — 135 135 140 — 255 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Championships
2017 Miami, United States 75 kg 103 107 110 1st place, gold medalist(s) 128 131 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 241 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 75 kg 107 111 114 1st place, gold medalist(s) 132 137 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 248 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Guatemala City, Guatemala 76 kg 104 108 109 1st place, gold medalist(s) 131 136 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 245 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Bogotá, Colombia 81 kg 113 117 120 1st place, gold medalist(s) 138 143 143 1st place, gold medalist(s) 263 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Bariloche, Argentina 81 kg 106 111 115 1st place, gold medalist(s) 136 141 145 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 256 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Caracas, Venezuela 81 kg 115 118 121 1st place, gold medalist(s) 141 141 146 1st place, gold medalist(s) 262 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Junior World Championships
2016 Tbilisi, Georgia 69 kg 99 103 105 1st place, gold medalist(s) 123 125 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 230 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017 Tokyo, Japan 75 kg 103 106 108 1st place, gold medalist(s) 128 134 134 1st place, gold medalist(s) 242 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 75 kg 105 110 115 1st place, gold medalist(s) 128 134 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 255 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

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  1. ^ "Athlete Profile". IWF.net. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  2. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 76 kg
  3. ^ "Neisi Dajomes". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. ^ "76kg Results". IWF.net. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  5. ^ "2019 Pan American Championships Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  6. ^ 2019 Pan American Games Results
  7. ^ "Neisi Dajomes consigue la primera medalla de oro para Ecuador en los Juegos Panamericanos Lima 2019". El Comercio. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Women's 76 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  9. ^ Iveson, Ali (29 July 2022). "Rogers stars for US but Colombia dominate at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  10. ^ a b "2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  11. ^ Núñez, Felipe (4 July 2022). "Neisi Dajomes obtiene doble medalla de oro en los Juegos Bolivarianos". Primicias.ec. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  12. ^ "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  13. ^ Benitez, Karla (5 October 2022). "Guayanesa Yorgelis Salazar y Orluis Aular aportan oro para Venezuela en Asunción 2022". Primicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  14. ^ "Women's 87 kg" (PDF). 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  15. ^ "Shell: Tierra de campeones: Película documental ecuatoriana en desarrollo". Asociación de Documentalistas del Ecuador (in Spanish). 6 August 2021. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023.
  16. ^ Araujo, Adela (11 October 2023). ""Neisi, la fuerza de un sueño" el documental que relatará la historia de la campeona mundial de halterofilia". Metro Ecuador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 October 2023.
  17. ^ "Neisi Dajomes y Daniel Pintado son los abanderados de Ecuador para los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024" (in Spanish). El Universo.com. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  18. ^ a b "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Ecuador
Paris 2024
With: Julio Mendoza Loor 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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