Bella Nancy Paredes Arreaga (born 25 February 2002)
is an Ecuadorian
weightlifter
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...
. She won two silver medals at the
2022 Bolivarian Games
The 2022 Bolivarian Games (Spanish:''Juegos Bolivarianos''), officially the XIX Bolivarian Games Valledupar 2022, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Valledupar, Colombia from June 24 to July 5. It was the fifth time of the ...
held in Valledupar, Colombia.
She is also a former
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
.
Career
She competed in the
girls' +63kg event at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international multi-sport event, sports, cultural, and edu ...
held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She finished in 4th place.
At the time, she finished in 5th place but Supatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance.
She won the bronze medal in the women's 76kg event at the
2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships held in Las Vegas, United States.
In 2021, she won the silver medal in the women's 76kg event at the
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
The IWF Junior World Championships is organised by the International Weightlifting Federation
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held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
She won the gold medal in the
women's 87kg event at the
2021 Junior Pan American Games
The 2021 Junior Pan American Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Panamericanos Junior 2021'') was an international multi-sports event for athletes aged 17 to 22 in the Americas, organized by Panam Sports held in Cali and Valle, Colombia between November 25 ...
held in Cali and Valle, Colombia.
She won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the
2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships
The 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships were held in Heraklion, Greece, from 2 to 10 May 2022.
Medalists
Men
Women
Medal table
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch an ...
held in Heraklion, Greece.
She won two silver medals at the
2022 Bolivarian Games
The 2022 Bolivarian Games (Spanish:''Juegos Bolivarianos''), officially the XIX Bolivarian Games Valledupar 2022, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Valledupar, Colombia from June 24 to July 5. It was the fifth time of the ...
held in Valledupar, Colombia.
She won the bronze medal in the
women's 76kg Snatch event at the
2022 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2022 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held in Bogotá, Colombia in December 2022. It was scheduled to be held in Chongqing, China but this changed in March 2022 as a result of COVID-19 measures in China. The ne ...
held in Bogotá, Colombia.
She competed in
artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
before switching to weightlifting.
Achievements
References
External links
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Living people
2002 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ecuadorian female artistic gymnasts
Ecuadorian female weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
21st-century Ecuadorian women