Tamara Salazar

Tamara Yajaira Salazar Arce (born 9 August 1997) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo 87 kg Olympic competition, and silver and bronze medals at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships.

Career

In the Weightlifting World Championship in 2018, Ecuadorian Tamara Salazar won silver and bronze. Salazar, raised 137 kilos (302.03 pounds) in the Clean & Jerk and won the silver medal. The Belarusian Darya Naumava raised the same, but took the gold for having less body weight. The bronze went to Lidia Valentín of Spain with 136 kg. In the total, Salazar completed 242 kg and took bronze. Valentín (249 kg) and Naumava (245 kg) took gold and silver respectively.

Salazar won the silver medal in the women's 87kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Salazar won the gold medal in the women's 87kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. She also won medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.

She won the bronze medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina.

Major results