Crismery Santana Earns First Individual Medal by a Dominican Woman at Tokyo Games

2020 Tokyo Games

 

 

 

Crismery Santana is carrying her weight at this year’s Olympics

The 26-year-old Dominican weightlifter claimed the bronze medal in the women’s 87kg weightlifting competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games, becoming the first Dominican woman to get on the podium in an individual sport.

Crismery Santana 

Santana finished the competition with a Snatch total of 116 kg and a Clean & Jerk total of 140 kg, for a grand total weight of 256 kg.

China’s Wang Zhouyu, who notched a total weight of 270 kg, claimed the gold.

Tamara Salazar won the silver with a weight of 263 kg.

By secure a medal, Santana has earned a RD$6 million prize announced by the Dominican government.

Santana joins Zacarías Bonnat (silver in weightlifting) and the 4 x 400 mixed relay (silver in track and field) as this Games’ Dominican medalists to date.

Tamara Salazar Claims Silver in Women’s 87kg Weightlifting Competition at Tokyo Games

2020 Tokyo GamesTamara Salazar has helped lift Ecuador to its strongest showing at an Olympic Games

The 23-year-old Ecuadorian weightlifter claimed the silver medal in the women’s 87kg weightlifting competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games, raising her country’s medal count to three at this year’s Olympics.

Tamara Salazar

Salazar finished second behind China’s Wang Zhouyu, who notched a total weight of 270 kg to Salazar’s 263 kg. The Dominican Republic’s Crismery Santana claimed the bronze with a total weight of 256 kg.

Salazar lifted a total of 263 kg (113 + 150) and Santana lifted 256 (116 + 140), a considerable distance from the 270 kg of Wang (120 + 150), champion of the 2018 and 2019 World Cups.

Tamara Salazar

Salazar was solid in the test by not failing in any of the attempts in both modalities, being the only athlete in the competition to achieve it. And, she credits her mom for helping motivate her onto the medal stand.

“Before competing I received a video call from my mother, who told me ‘mija, you can’. She is my greatest motivation and now I am here, with an Olympic medal, still without believing it. I dreamed it so much, I always asked God to give me the necessary strength and now I live this reality,“ said the weightlifter.

So far, Ecuador has won two gold medals (Richard Carapaz and Neisi Dajomes) and one silver (Tamara Salazar).