Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian

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, who is the 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, a 6-time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and a 3-time Junior World Champion. As of 2024, she is the only female Ecuadorian athlete to win multiple Olympic medals. She competed in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories. She is the older sister of the 2023 Pan American champion and Olympic medalist weightlifter

Angie Palacios Angie Paola Palacios Dájomes (born September 12, 2000) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter and two time Youth World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federat ...

. As of 2 June 2025 Neisi Dajomes has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for presence of

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metabolite, which may be used to mitigate some of the adverse effects associated with synthetic steroid abuse.

Career

Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the

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, finishing seventh overall. She became junior world champion in

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in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in

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. She won a silver medal at the

World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the

World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the

World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total. In April 2019 she competed at the

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winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the

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in the 76 kg division. In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led

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by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal. Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the

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in Tokyo, Japan. She won the gold medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition. She won two gold 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 won the gold medal in her event at the

2022 South American Games The XII South American Games (Spanish language, Spanish: ''XII Juegos Suramericanos Asunción 2022'') was a multi-sport event held between 1–15 October 2022 in Asunción, Paraguay. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organiza ...

held in Asunción, Paraguay. Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81kg 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. In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the

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held in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called ''Shell: Land of Champions''. In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called ''Neisi: The Power of a Dream''. It is expected to be released in November 2023. On 6 June 2024, the

Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee The Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee (ECU; ) was created in 1948 and recognized by the IOC in 1959. In 2012, it had its autonomy reinstated "following domestic issues whereby the Sports Ministry interfered in the activities of the National ...

, named her and the ecuadorian olympic walker Brian Pintado as the official flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, however was the dressage rider

Julio Mendoza Loor Julio Cesar Mendoza Loor (born 8 April 1979) is an Ecuadorian dressage rider. He has competed at three Pan American Games and became the first Ecuadorian dressage rider to compete at the World Equestrian Games. Mendoza Loor grew up near Quito, ...

, who was the partner in carry the flag in the opening ceremony, replacing to Pintado. In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81kg event. She was leading after the Snatch with a 122 kg lift and went down to the third place after the Clean & Jerk with a total of 267 kg.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dajomes, Neisi 1998 births Living people Ecuadorian female weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Ecuador Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2024 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists in weightlifting Pan American Games silver medalists for Ecuador World Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2015 Pan American Games South American Games gold medalists for Ecuador South American Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Competitors at the 2022 South American Games Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in weightlifting Olympic gold medalists for Ecuador 21st-century Ecuadorian sportswomen People from Pastaza Province Bolivarian Games gold medalists for Ecuador Bolivarian Games medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Ecuador