Neisi Dajomes’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Neisi Patricia Barrera Dajomes (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, Olympian, 3 time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and 3 time Junior World Champion competing 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. She is the older sister of Angie Palacios.

Career

She competed in the women’s 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 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.

In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships 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. 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.

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