Diego Salazar

Colombian weightlifter (born 1980)

Diego Salazar

Personal information

Born

(1980-10-03) 3 October 1980 (age 43)
Barranquilla, Colombia

Medal record

Representing Colombia

Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	– 62 kg
World Championships
	2006 Santo Domingo	– 62 kg
Pan American Games
	2003 Santo Domingo	– 62 kg
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	– 62 kg
	2011 Guadalajara	– 62 kg
Pan American Championships
	2008 Callao	– 62 kg
	2010 Guatemala City	– 62 kg
Central American and Caribbean Games
	2006 Cartagena	– 62 kg

Diego Fernando Salazar Quintero (born 3 October 1980) is a Colombian weightlifter, Olympic medalist and two times gold medal winner at the Pan American Games. He was born in Baranquilla.^[1]

Salazar participated in the men's -62 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the bronze medal, finishing behind Qiu Le and Oscar Figueroa. He snatched 131 kg and clean and jerked an additional 164 kg for a total of 295 kg, 13 kg behind winner Qiu.^[2]

He ranked sixth in the 62 kg category at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships, lifting a total of 293 kg.^[3]

At the 2008 Pan American Weightlifting Championships he won the silver medal in the 62 kg category, lifting 302 kg in total.^[4]

2008 Summer Olympics performance

Salazar won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics behind China's Zhan Xiangxiang. Salazar lifted 167 kg and took the silver medal with a total weight of 305 kg.

References

^ "DIEGO FERNANDO SALAZAR QUINTERO" (PDF) (in Spanish). Comité Olímpico Colombiano.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 75th MEN'S and 18th WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS -62 KG MEN Archived December 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, iwf.net
^ "SALAZAR Diego". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27.
^ "SALAZAR Diego". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27.