Mari Leivis Sánchez, silver medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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The Colombian weight lifting team started its concentration in Cali with a view to the Elite Pan American Championship, which will take place between July 12 and 18, at the Miguel Calero Coliseum in the Vallecaucana capital. The National Delegation is composed of 16 athletes.
The Ministry of Sports allocated an investment of 300 million pesos for the organization of this event. Between March and June, this portfolio has invested 6,000 million pesos in 21 large international events in the country. In the first semester, nine had this impulse.
Within the group of athletes formalized by the Colombian Federation of Weights Lifting, are the Olympic medalists in Paris 2024: Jeison López and Mari Leivis Sánchez. They will also say present Pan American and World Medalists such as Rafael Cerro, Gelen Torres and Francisco Mosquera.
In the Colombian women's branch it will have eight representatives: Rohelis Galvis (53kg), Gelen Torres (58kg), Yenny Sinisterra (63kg), Julieth Rodríguez (69kg), Concepción Úsuga (63kg), Mari Leivis Sánchez (77kg), Darli Sánchez (77kg) and Valeria Rivas (86kg).
There will also be eight Colombians in competition in the male branch: Jeison López (88kg), Marcos Bonilla (94kg), Rafael Cerro (+110kg), Francisco Mosquera (65kg), Hugo Montes (79kg), Sebastián Olivares (71kg), Duván Ferrer (60kg) and Santiago Cossio (+110kg).
The National Delegation, which trains double day at the Colosseum of the Federation, has the support of the professionals of the Sports Sciences Center of the Ministry of Sports, who monitor the health and monitoring of the sports performance of the athletes.
The athletes who will represent Colombia in the Pan American Pesos Lifting Championship will be officially presented before the media this Saturday, June 28 at 9:30 am, at the Federation Coliseum, in Cali.
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