Bella Nancy Paredes Arreaga (born 25 February 2002) is an Ecuadorian

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76kg event at the

2023 World Weightlifting Championships The 2023 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 4 to 17 September 2023. The event served as a mandatory event to qualify for the weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Summer ...

held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She won two silver medals at the

2022 Bolivarian Games The 2022 Bolivarian Games (), 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 event in Colombia. Participating ...

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 types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

Career

Paredes competed in the girls' +63kg event at the

2018 Summer Youth Olympics The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics (), 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 educational event held from 6 to 18 October 2018 ...

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. Paredes 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, Paredes 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 The International Weightlifting Federation, aka IWF, is the international governing body for the sport of Weightlifting. Headquartered in Lausanne, ...

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'') were the first edition of the Junior Pan American Games, an international multi-sports event for athletes aged 17 to 22 in the Americas, organized by Panam Spor ...

held in Cali and Valle, Colombia. Paredes won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Heraklion, Greece. She won two silver medals at 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. Paredes won the silver medal in the women's 76kg event at the

2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships The 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships were held in Bariloche, Argentina from 27 March to 1 April 2023. Colombian weightlifters did not compete at the competition after Colombia withdrew its entire team due to a dispute over team fees ...

held in Bariloche, Argentina. She also won the silver medal in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events. In that same year, Paredes won the bronze medal in the women's 76kg event at the

held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paredes competed in

artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), ...

before switching to weightlifting.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paredes, Bella Living people 2002 births Place of birth missing (living people) Ecuadorian female artistic gymnasts Ecuadorian female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Ecuadorian sportswomen World Weightlifting Championships medalists Bolivarian Games silver medalists for Ecuador Bolivarian Games medalists in weightlifting