Mercedes Pérez
Appearance
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Birth name | Mercedes Isabel Pérez Tigreros | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | August 7, 1987 Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia | (age 37)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mercedes Isabel Pérez Tigreros (born August 7, 1987 in Santa Marta, Magdalena) is a female Colombian weightlifter competing in the 63 kg category until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[1]
Career
Olympics
She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing in the 63 kg division. Originally she finished ninth but the original silver medalist Irina Nekrassova failed a doping control and her results were disqualified,[2] as a result, Mercedes got moved up to eight place.
In 2016 she competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 63 kg division finishing fourth overall.
Major results
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2008 | ![]() |
63 kg | 93 | 97 | 8 | 120 | 8 | 217 | 8 | |||
2016 | ![]() |
63 kg | 100 | 104 | 5 | 125 | 130 | 4 | 234 | 4 | ||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2005 | ![]() |
58 kg | 82 | 86 | 88 | 8 | 105 | 109 | 9 | 197 | 9 | |
2006 | ![]() |
58 kg | 90 | 8 | 105 | 111 | 8 | 201 | 6 | |||
2007 | ![]() |
63 kg | 97 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
2009 | ![]() |
63 kg | 95 | 100 | 13 | 122 | 125 | 8 | 225 | 11 | ||
2010 | ![]() |
63 kg | 95 | 99 | 10 | 125 | 9 | 224 | 8 | |||
2011 | ![]() |
69 kg | 95 | 98 | 100 | 12 | 125 | 130 | 7 | 230 | 10 | |
2013 | ![]() |
69 kg | 100 | 105 | 7 | 130 | 7 | 235 | 7 | |||
2014 | ![]() |
63 kg | 101 | 104 | 12 | 127 | 11 | 231 | 11 | |||
2015 | ![]() |
63 kg | 97 | 12 | 125 | 130 | 8 | 227 | 8 | |||
2017 | ![]() |
63 kg | 97 | 101 | 4 | 124 | 4 | 225 | ![]() | |||
2018 | ![]() |
64 kg | 100 | 105 | 5 | 127 | ![]() |
232 | 4 |
References
- Mercedes Pérez at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
External links
Categories:
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Olympic weightlifters of Colombia
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2011 Pan American Games
- People from Magdalena Department
- Colombian female weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Female powerlifters
- Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia
- South American Games silver medalists for Colombia
- South American Games gold medalists for Colombia
- South American Games medalists in weightlifting
- Competitors at the 2018 South American Games
- Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- South American weightlifting biography stubs
- Colombian sportspeople stubs