Beatriz Pirón

Beatriz Elizabeth Pirón Candelario (born February 27, 1995) is a retired Dominican weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in snatch at the 2011 Youth World Championships and gold at the 2011 Youth Pan American Championships. As of 2026, she is the only Dominican woman to have attended four Olympic Games.

She was among the participants of the 2026 Enhanced Games. At the Enhanced Breakers 1 series, as an enhanced athlete, she broke the 53 kg snatch record by lifting 100 kg.

Personal life Born Beatriz Elizabeth Pirón Candelario on February 27, 1995, in San Pedro de Macorís, she is tall . Her parents are Kenia Candelario and Augusto Pirón, have a daughter named Yamilka and Berlyn is the niece of the three times Pan American Games medalist Guillermina Candelario. She is a member of the Dominican Republic National Police and she had her rank lifted to second lieutenant at the time she completed her bachelor's degree in accounting.

Career

2009 Pirón ranked 5th at 1st Youth World championships held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, participating in the under 44 kg, having a 54 kg lift in snatch, 64 kg in clean & jerk and a total of 118 kg.

2011 In April Pirón won three gold medals in the 2011 Youth Pan American Championship in the under 44 kg, setting two continental records in snatch with 62 kg and total 128 kg; she also lifted 76 kg in clean & jerk. She participated under the guidance of the coaches Rómula Hidalgo, Bienvenido Rodríguez. In May, she won the bronze medal in snatch with a 60 kg lift in snatch in the 44 kg division of the 2011 Youth World Championships held in Lima, Peru. She also had 76 in clean&jerk and a total of 136 kg. She was crowned in July in the National Junior Championship winning the gold medal in snatch with 80 kg and total with 146 kilograms, also winning the silver medal in clean & jerk with 66.

The San Pedro de Macorís Hall of Fame invited Pirón in September to be one the pageant on the memorial where Tony Fernández and Tetelo Vargas were among the inductees.

2012 With a 6th place at the Pan-American Championship held in Antigua, Guatemala Pirón started the 2012 competing in the under 48 kg category with a total lifted of 158 kg. She earned the gold medal lifting 65 kg in snatch, 85 kg in clean & jerk and 150 kg in total in the National Schools Games representing the East region.

She was named along Yuderqui Contreras to represent the Dominican Republic at the London Olympic Games, practicing under the Guidance of Leonild Goncharenko. she ranked 7th in snatch and finished in 9th place at the 48 kg category of the Olympic tournament, with 90 kg in clean & jerk and 167 kg in total.

2015–2016 Pirón competed in 2015 Pan American Games and won the bronze medal being her National Police ranking being lifted to Corporal because of her medal. She won three gold medals in the 48 kg category, setting new Pan American marks with 81 kg in snatch, 97 kg in clean & jerk and a total amount of 178 kg. Pirón won two gold medals in snatch and total and a silver in clean and jerk, participating in the 53 kg category of the 2016 Pan American Championships. She took part of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, finishing in the fourth place in the 48 kg category lifting 85 kg in snatch, 102 kg in clean and jerk and a total of 187 kg, just one kilo under the bronze medal.

2021 She represented the Dominican Republic at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 8th place in the women's 49 kg event.

2023 She won the bronze medal in the women's 49kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.

2024 In August 2024, Pirón competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. She lifted 85 kg in Snatch and 107 kg in Clean & Jerk setting 192 kg in total placing seventh in her forth Olympic Games.

2025-2026 Pirón announced her retirement at the end of 2025, thanking with an emotional letter in social media to her family and institutions who helped her throughout her career and being the only four times Olympian Dominican woman.

In 2026, she competed in the first edition of the Enhanced Games, participating in the 53 kg category, she lifted 118 kg in the clean and jerk, the world record being 126 kg, and failed three times in snatch with 100 kg trying to break the world record of 99 kg. Even though, there were already reports that she had broken the record during training. During an interview before the games, she justified that she had to scale up from 49 kg to the 53 category in order to achieve the strengh and muscle mass to pursue the world record and that she was training with the help of substance that would be doping within the Olympic Sport..

On 11 July 2026, Piron participated at the Enhanced Breakers 1 series where she broke the 53 kg snatch record by lifting 100 kg. It was disclosed that she could not complete this lift during the first edition of the Enhanced Games because she was injured and spent six weeks of a personalized enhancement and recovery protocol that allow her to quickly heal and breake the record, that she did in front of a large group of creators in order to help spread the news.

Achievements Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank 1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank Summer Olympics 2012 London, Great Britain 48 kg 72 75 77 87 90 92 167 9 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 48 kg 85 87 87 102 105 105 187 4 2021 Tokyo, Japan 49 kg 78 81 83 90 93 95 176 8 2024 Paris, France 49 kg 85 88 88 102 107 110 192 7 World Championships 2015 Houston, United States 48 kg 80 80 83 11 95 98 100 13 180 11 2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 49 kg 81 84 84 100 103 105 5 187 4 2019 Pattaya, Thailand 49 kg 83 86 88 6 101 103 103 9 187 7 2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 49 kg — — — — — — — — — —IWF World Cup2019 Fuzhou, China 49 kg 75 78 78 90 94 98 5 176 2024 Phuket, Thailand 49 kg — — — — — — — — — — Pan American Games 2015 Toronto, Canada 48 kg 80 84 84 95 98 99 175 2019 Lima, Peru 49 kg 82 85 87 100 104 106 193 2023 Santiago, Chile 49 kg 80 84 86 97 102 102 181 Pan American Championships 2012 Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala 48 kg 68 71 71 4 84 87 88 5 158 6 2013 Margarita Island, Venezuela 48 kg 77 80 82 91 96 98 176 2016 Cartagena, Colombia 53 kg 87 90 91 105 108 111 199 2017 Miami, United States 53 kg 85 88 88 4 104 106 108 191 2018 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 53 kg 88 90 92 106 109 110 4 196 2019 Guatemala City, Guatemala 49 kg 82 85 85 99 102 102 184 2021 Guayaquil, Ecuador 49 kg 78 81 82 4 91 96 98 5 174 5 2022 Bogotá, Colombia 49 kg 82 82 82 5 97 102 105 5 184 5 2024 Caracas, Venezuela 49 kg — — — — — — — — — — 2025 Cali, Colombia 53 kg 88 91 94 107 110 112 201