Jackeline Rentería

Jackeline Rentería

Rentería at the 2015 Pan Am Games
Personal information
Full name	Jaqueline Rentería Castillo
Born	February 23, 1986 (1986-02-23) (age 38) Cali, Colombia
Medal record Women's freestyle wrestling Representing Colombia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 55 kg 2012 London 55 kg World Championships 2017 Paris 63 kg Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro 55 kg 2019 Lima 62 kg 2015 Toronto 63 kg

Jackeline Rentería Castillo (born February 23, 1986 in Cali, Colombia) is a female wrestler from Colombia. She won a bronze medal in the women's freestyle 55 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and repeated the feat in the women's freestyle 55 kg category at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. She reached the semifinals in both tournaments, losing to the eventual silver medalists and winning the repechage bout. With her second medal she tied Helmut Bellingrodt, an Olympic Sports Shooter as the most decorated Colombian Olympian. In the Rio 2016 Olympics, they were joined by Óscar Figueroa in Weightlifting, Caterine Ibargüen in Triple Jump and Mariana Pajón in BMX. She is studying at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and also at the Universidad de Thomas Gomez.

References

• "Jackeline RENTERIA". Beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-19.
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jackeline Rentería". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15.
• Jackeline RENTERIA at Olympics.com