Roger Berrio Hernández (born October 30, 1972) is a retired male

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 ...

from Colombia, who twice won a medal for his native

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n country at the

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: in 1995 and 1999. He twice competed at the

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(1992 and 1996), finishing in 26th place in the men's featherweight division in

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(1996).

Major results

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1972 births Living people Colombian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Colombia Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1995 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 1999 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Colombia Pan American Games bronze medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games 20th-century Colombian people 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-weightlifting-bio-stub