Angie Palacios

Angie Palacios
Personal information
Birth nameAngie Paola Palacios Dájomes
Born (2000-09-12) September 12, 2000 (age 24)
Shell, Ecuador
Weight63.30 kg (140 lb)
Sport
Country Ecuador
SportWeightlifting
Event64 kg
Coached byHugo Quelal, Jorge Rivero[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 105 kg (2019)
  • Clean and jerk: 123 kg (2019)
  • Total: 228 kg (2019)
Medal record
Representing  Ecuador
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris –71 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Riyadh –71 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Bogotá –71 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago –71 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima –64 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá –71 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Bariloche –71 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Caracas –71 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Santo Domingo –64 kg
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción –76 kg
Junior World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Suva –64 kg

Angie Paola Palacios Dájomes (born September 12, 2000) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter and two time Youth World Champion[2] competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3]

Career

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She competed in the 64 kg division at the 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Fiji winning silver medals in the snatch, clean & jerk, and total.[4] Later she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games[5] in the 64 kg division winning a bronze medal.[6]

Palacios represented Ecuador at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[7][8] She placed sixth with a total of 226 kg.

Palacios won the gold medal in the women's 71 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[9] She also won medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.[9]

Palacios won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[10] She won the gold medal in the women's 71 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. In the same year, she won the silver medal in the women's 71 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[11]

She won the gold medal in the women's 71 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.[12] In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 2024, Palacios competed in the women's 71 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[13] She won a bronze medal with a total of 256 kg. She was second after the Snatch.

Personal life

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She is the younger sister of three time Junior World Champion and Olympic champion Neisi Dajomes.

Achievements

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Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2021 Tokyo, Japan 64 kg 100 104 108 122 127 127 226 6
2024 Paris, France 71 kg 110 114 116 135 138 140 256 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships
2017 Anaheim, United States 69 kg 90 94 95 9 112 116 120 11 215 9
2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 64 kg 91 95 100 9 115 120 122 11 222 9
2019 Pattaya, Thailand 64 kg 101 101 101 115 23
2022 Bogotá, Colombia 71 kg 110 115 116 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 132 136 140 5 252 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 71 kg 113 113 117 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 131 135 138 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 255 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
IWF World Cup
2024 Phuket, Thailand 71 kg 113 113 116 4 132 136 8 245 6
Pan American Games
2019 Lima, Peru 64 kg 98 103 105 118 118 123 228 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2023 Santiago, Chile 71 kg 110 115 118 130 135 253 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Championships
2017 Miami, United States 69 kg 95 99 101 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 115 120 123 4 222 4
2021 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 64 kg 100 105 108 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 115 120 125 6 225 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2022 Bogotá, Colombia 71 kg 107 111 113 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 134 137 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 247 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Bariloche, Argentina 71 kg 106 110 111 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130 135 137 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 248 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Caracas, Venezuela 71 kg 105 110 1st place, gold medalist(s) 125 130 1st place, gold medalist(s) 240 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Junior World Championships
2019 Suva, Fiji 64 kg 93 96 101 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 116 119 119 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 220 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

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  1. ^ "Athlete Bio". IWF.net. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. ^ "2017 IWF Youth World Championships Bangkok, THA overall". IWF.net. 11 April 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group C world championship entrants in 64 kg
  4. ^ "Chinese team booked the fourth victory in W64kg". IWF.net. 4 June 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  5. ^ "201 deportistas de 22 de las 24 provincias compiten en Lima". El Comercio. 25 July 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  6. ^ "2019 Pan American Games 64 kg results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  7. ^ "Samantha Arévalo se clasifica a sus terceros Juegos Olímpicos". Hola News. 2021-06-19. Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  8. ^ "Weightlifting - PALACIOS DAJOMES Angie Paola". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  9. ^ a b "2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Women's 76 kg" (PDF). 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  11. ^ "2023 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Women's 71 kg Results" (PDF). 2023 Pan American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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