Keydomar Vallenilla

Venezuelan weightlifter (born 1999)
  • 89 kg
  • 96 kg
Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing  Venezuela
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 96 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá 89 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Tashkent 96 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Riyadh 89 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago 89 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima 96 kg
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción 96 kg
Silver medal – second place 2018 Cochabamba 85 kg
Bolivarian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Valledupar 96 kg CJ
Silver medal – second place 2022 Valledupar 96 kg S
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Guayaquil 96 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Bariloche 89 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Caracas 96 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Bogotá 89 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Miami 85 kg

Keydomar Giovanni Vallenilla Sánchez (born 8 October 1999) is a Venezuelan weightlifter. In 2021, he won the silver medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[2][3]

Career

Vallenilla won the bronze medal in the Clean & Jerk in the men's 89 kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.[4][5] He also won the bronze medal in the Snatch in the men's 89 kg event at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships held in Pattaya, Thailand.[6]

In 2019, he won the bronze medal in the men's 96 kg event at the Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.[7]

In 2021, Vallenilla won the silver medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[8] He won the gold medal in his event at the 2021 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[9][10] In that same year, he won the bronze medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[11][12]

He won two medals, including gold, at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[13][14] He won the silver medal in his event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[15][16] He also set new Panamerican records in both the Snatch and the Clean & Jerk which were all improved upon during the competition by Brayan Rodallegas of Colombia.[16]

Vallenilla won the gold medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[17] In December 2022, Vallenilla won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[2][3] In that same month, he was also elected as member of the IWF Athletes' Commission.[18]

Vallenilla won the gold medal in the men's 89 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. He also won the gold medal in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events. In September 2023, he won the bronze medal in the men's 89 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[19]

In 2024, he won the gold medal in the men's 96 kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.

Achievements

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Summer Olympics
2021 Japan Tokyo, Japan 96 kg 172 175 177 — 210 215 216 — 387 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships
2018 Turkmenistan Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 89 kg 160 165 167 9 195 201 204 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 369 6
2019 Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 89 kg 164 167 169 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 195 200 200 12 364 8
2021 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 96 kg 172 175 177 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 210 214 214 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 391 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 89 kg 171 171 175 1st place, gold medalist(s) 210 213 215 4 385 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 89 kg 165 169 171 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 205 209 210 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 381 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Pan American Games
2019 Peru Lima, Peru 96 kg 165 169 171 — 200 205 207 — 374 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2023 Chile Santiago, Chile 89 kg 168 172 177 — 208 211 — — 383 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Championships
2017 United States Miami, United States 85 kg 150 156 160 4 189 194 195 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 351 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2018 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 85 kg 151 158 162 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 192 192 192 7 354 6
2020 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 96 kg 170 175 175 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 210 210 210 — — —
2021 Ecuador Guayaquil, Ecuador 96 kg 164 169 174 1st place, gold medalist(s) 205 209 214 1st place, gold medalist(s) 388 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 89 kg 162 167 171 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 202 206 210 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 377 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2023 Argentina Bariloche, Argentina 89 kg 167 176 176 1st place, gold medalist(s) 202 212 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 379 1st place, gold medalist(s)
South American Games
2018 Bolivia Cochabamba, Bolivia 85 kg 152 160 164 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 192 200 202 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 360 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022 Paraguay Asunción, Paraguay 96 kg 168 174 178 — 204 211 216 — 394 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Bolivarian Games
2022 Colombia Valledupar, Colombia 96 kg 167 167 167 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 201 206 210 1st place, gold medalist(s) — —

References

  1. ^ "Keydomar Vallenilla corona una brillante trayectoria con una medalla olímpica". 31 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b Oliver, Brian (11 December 2022). "Teenager Nasar gets world record after bomb-out at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b "2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). IWF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  4. ^ Etchells, Daniel (6 November 2018). "Russia win first medals of 2018 IWF World Championships as Okulov holds onto take double gold in men's 89kg". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ^ "2018 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  6. ^ "2019 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2019 Pan American Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  8. ^ Oliver, Brian (31 July 2021). "Weightlifter Meso wins Qatar's first ever Olympic gold medal". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  9. ^ Oliver, Brian (8 November 2021). "Mixed fortunes for Tokyo medallists at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Colombia se impone en el Panamericano de Halterofilia; Ecuador finaliza en el octavo lugar". El Universo (in Spanish). 10 November 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  11. ^ Oliver, Brian (14 December 2021). "Weightlifting world record for Colombia's Paredes as Olympic champion Meso beaten". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  12. ^ "2021 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Keydomar Vallenilla, lucha y baloncesto 3x3 ganaron oro en Valledupar 2022". Primicia (in Spanish). 4 July 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  14. ^ "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  15. ^ Iveson, Ali (27 July 2022). "Records for Rodallegas as Colombia lead medals table at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "Men's 96 kg" (PDF). 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  18. ^ Oliver, Brian (21 December 2022). "Three Olympic weightlifting champions and 700,000 Instagram followers - the new IWF Athletes Commission". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  19. ^ "2023 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.

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