Lydia Valentín

Spanish weightlifter (born 1985)

  • Snatch: 124 kg (2014, Almaty)
  • Clean & Jerk: 147 kg (2014, Tel Aviv)
  • Total: 268 kg (2014, Tel Aviv)
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London –75 kg
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing –75 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro –75 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Anaheim –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ashgabat –81 kg
Silver medal – second place 2019 Pattaya –81 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Wrocław –75 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Tel Aviv –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2015 Tbilisi –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2017 Split –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Bucharest –75 kg
Silver medal – second place 2008 Lignano –75 kg
Silver medal – second place 2009 Bucharest –75 kg
Silver medal – second place 2012 Antalya –75 kg
Silver medal – second place 2013 Tirana –75 kg
Silver medal – second place 2019 Batumi –76 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Strasbourg –75 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Minsk –75 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Kazan –75 kg
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Mersin -75kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tarragona -75 kg

Lydia Valentín Pérez[1][2][3][4] (born 10 February 1985) is a Spanish retired[5] weightlifter, Olympic Champion, 2 time World Champion and 4 time European Champion competing in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[6] Lydia has won three Olympic Medals (Silver in 2008, Gold in 2012 and Bronze in 2016), two World Weightlifting Championships (2017 and 2018), as well as four European Weightlifting Championships.[3][7][8]

Career

At the 2007 World Championships, she ranked sixth in the 75 kg category with a total of 240 kg.[9]

At the 2013 World Championships, she won bronze in the snatch and placed fourth in the total, being promoted to silver and bronze respectively when Olga Zubova was disqualified for failing a doping test.[10][11] In 2017, Lydia won the World Weightlifting Championship held in Anaheim, United States.[3]

At the European Championships, she won four gold medals for the total in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 three silver medals (in 2008, 2012 and 2013) and three bronze medals (in 2007, 2009 and 2011), with three gold and four silver medals in the snatch, and two gold, one silver and five bronze medals in the clean and jerk.[9]

Olympics

In 2008, Valentín competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 75 kg category finishing in fifth place at the time of competition with a 250 kg total.[12][13] In 2016, retests of samples from the 75 kg category at the 2008 Olympics returned positive results for the original gold medalist Cao Lei[14] and bronze medalist Nadezhda Evstyukhina.[15] Both were disqualified, and Valentín was awarded the silver medal.[16][17]

In 2012, Valentín competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 75 kg category, and finished in fourth place with a 265 kg total, behind the eight new Olympic Records set by Svetlana Podobedova and Natalia Zabolotnaya. In 2016, during retests, all three original medalists returned positive results, thus disqualifying them.[4][18][19] Valentín was declared the Olympic Champion, and in March 2019, she was awarded her gold medal.[20]

In 2016, while waiting for confirmation of these medals, Valentín had competed in the 2016 Olympics, where she lifted a total of 257 kg and won the bronze medal. It was, at the time, Spain's first medal ever in weightlifting (retrospectively third).[21][22]

In 2021, she competed in the women's 87 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[23]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2008 China Beijing, China 75 kg 110 110 115 2 130 135 138 3 250 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2012 United Kingdom London, United Kingdom 75 kg 115 115 120 1 140 145 148 1 265 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 75 kg 112 116 116 2 135 138 141 3 257 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2020 Japan Tokyo, Japan 87 kg 100 103 106 10 122 – – 11 225 10
World Championships
2002 Poland Warsaw, Poland 63 kg 80 80 80 – 92.5 92.5 120 13 – –
2005 Qatar Doha, Qatar 75 kg 100 105 107 7 115 115 120 13 220 11
2006 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 75 kg 100 100 100 13 120 120 120 – – –
2007 Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand 75 kg 105 110 115 5 125 130 135 5 240 6
2009 South Korea Goyang, South Korea 75 kg 112 118 119 4 130 136 136 9 242 6
2010 Turkey Antalya, Turkey 75 kg 112 112 117 6 135 135 135 – – –
2011 France Paris, France 75 kg 112 117 120 4 133 138 142 7 258 5
2013 Poland Wrocław, Poland 75 kg 117 122 122 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 138 146 146 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 260 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2014 Kazakhstan Almaty, Kazakhstan 75 kg 120 120 124 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 140 147 148 4 264 4
2015 United States Houston, United States 75 kg – – – – – – – – – –
2017 United States Anaheim, United States 75 kg 110 115 118 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 135 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 258 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Turkmenistan Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 81 kg 108 110 113 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 136 136 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 249 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 81 kg 105 108 112 5 130 134 138 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 246 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships
2005 Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria 75 kg 100 100 105 6 110 115 120 7 215 6
2006 Poland Władysławowo, Poland 75 kg 103 103 108 5 118 122 125 7 225 7
2007 France Strasbourg, France 75 kg 105 110 115 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 125 130 132 4 247 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2008 Italy Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy 75 kg 110 115 118 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 130 135 135 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 245 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2009 Romania Bucharest, Romania 75 kg 112 117 120 1st place, gold medalist(s) 132 132 132 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 252 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2010 Belarus Minsk, Belarus 75 kg 110 115 115 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 132 137 140 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 255 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2011 Russia Kazan, Russia 75 kg 112 117 122 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 132 142 146 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 264 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2012 Turkey Antalya, Turkey 75 kg 112 117 123 1st place, gold medalist(s) 135 143 146 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 260 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2013 Albania Tirana, Albania 75 kg 115 120 124 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 135 140 142 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 260 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2014 Israel Tel Aviv, Israel 75 kg 115 120 121 1st place, gold medalist(s) 137 144 147 1st place, gold medalist(s) 268 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2015 Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia 75 kg 112 116 118 1st place, gold medalist(s) 135 141 145 1st place, gold medalist(s) 263 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017 Croatia Split, Croatia 75 kg 112 115 118 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 132 137 – 1st place, gold medalist(s) 252 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Romania Bucharest, Romania 75 kg 107 112 115 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 135 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 250 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Georgia (country) Batumi, Georgia 76 kg 105 108 110 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 133 136 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 241 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Mediterranean Games
2013 Turkey Mersin, Turkey 75 kg 112 115 120 1st place, gold medalist(s) 135 140 145 1st place, gold medalist(s) 265 –
2018 Spain Tarragona, Spain 75 kg 105 110 112 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 137 -- 1st place, gold medalist(s) 249 –

See also

References

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