Lesman Paredes Montaño (born 5 March 1996) is a Colombian
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 ...
who won a
Gold medal at the
2021 World Championships. He represents Bahrain since July 2022. He also won the gold medal in the
men's 96kg event at the
2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.
He set a new
world record
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in the snatch of 187 kilograms (412.2 pounds) at the
2021 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2021 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held from 7 to 17 December in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Due to concerns about the rapid spread of Omicron variant and held shortly after Olympics and Chinese National Games, t ...
in
96 kg category.
He is also a two-time gold medalist in the men's 102 kg event at the
Pan American Weightlifting Championships.
He won the gold medal in his event at the
2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships was held in Manama, Bahrain from 6 to 16 October 2022. It was the 50th men's and 31st women's championship.
Medal summary Men
Women
Medal table
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals
Ranking by a ...
held in Manama, Bahrain.
Paredes was born in
Cali
Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the secon ...
and raised in
Buenaventura.
Major results
References
External links
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Lesman Paredes Montanoat The-Sports.org
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1996 births
Living people
Colombian male weightlifters
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Cali
People from Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca
21st-century Colombian people