Weightlifting at the 2011 Pan American Games

Weightlifting at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue
Dates	October 23 – October 27
Competitors	124 from 22 nations
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Weightlifting at the 2011 Pan American Games
Qualification
	Men	Women
	56 kg	48 kg
	62 kg	53 kg
	69 kg	58 kg
	77 kg	63 kg
	85 kg	69 kg
	94 kg	75 kg
	105 kg	+75 kg
	+105 kg
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Weightlifting competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara were held from October 23 to October 27 at the .^[1]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	4	0	0	4
2	Colombia (COL)	3	4	4	11
3	Ecuador (ECU)	3	1	1	5
4	Venezuela (VEN)	1	8	1	10
5	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
6	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	0	0	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	0	0	1
9	Mexico (MEX)*	0	1	5	6
10	Chile (CHI)	0	1	0	1
11	United States (USA)	0	0	3	3
Totals (11 nations)		15	15	15	45

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Sergio Álvarez  Cuba	Sergio Rada  Colombia	José Montes  Mexico
62 kg details	Óscar Figueroa  Colombia	Jesús López  Venezuela	Diego Salazar  Colombia
69 kg details	Israel Rubio  Venezuela	Junior Sanchez  Venezuela	Doyler Sánchez  Colombia
77 kg details	Iván Cambar  Cuba	Ecuador	Chad Vaughn  United States
85 kg details	Yoelmis Hernández  Cuba	Carlos Andica  Colombia	Kendrick Farris  United States
94 kg details	Cuba	Herbys Márquez  Venezuela	Eduardo Guadamud  Ecuador
105 kg details	Jorge Arroyo  Ecuador	Julio Luna  Venezuela	United States
+105 kg details	Fernando Reis  Brazil	Venezuela	George Kobaladze  Canada

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Lely Burgos  Puerto Rico	Betsi Rivas  Venezuela	Colombia
53 kg details	Yuderquis Contreras  Dominican Republic	Inmara Henriquez  Venezuela	Mexico
58 kg details	Maria Escobar  Ecuador	Jackelina Heredia  Colombia	Lina Rivas  Colombia
63 kg details	Christine Girard  Canada	Colombia	Luz Acosta  Mexico
69 kg details	Mercedes Pérez  Colombia	Cinthya Domínguez  Mexico	Aremi Fuentes  Mexico
75 kg details	Ubaldina Valoyes  Colombia	Maria Valdes  Chile	Venezuela
+75 kg details	Ecuador	Yaniuska Espinoza  Venezuela	Mexico

Schedule[]

All times are Central Standard time (UTC-6).

Qualification[]

The top eighteen teams with the combined scores at the 2009 and 2010 Pan American Championship would qualify athletes, with the teams finishing higher, qualifying more athletes. Mexico as hosts enters a full team for each gender.^[1]

Qualification timeline[]

Event	Date	Venue
2009 Pan American Championship	June 3 to May 8, 2011	Chicago[2]
2010 Pan American Championship	May 23 to May 31, 2011	Guatemala City[3]

Summary[]

NOC	Men	Women	Total athletes
Argentina	2	2	4
Brazil	2	2	4
Canada	2	1	3
Chile		3	3
Colombia	7	6	13
Costa Rica	1		1
Cuba	7	2	9
Dominican Republic	5	6	11
Ecuador	6	5	11
El Salvador	2	1	3
Guatemala	4	2	6
Haiti	1		1
Honduras	1	1	2
Mexico	7	6	13
Nicaragua	1	1	2
Panama	1		1
Peru	1	2	3
Puerto Rico	4	6	10
United States	6	5	11
Uruguay	1		1
Venezuela	7	5	12
Total athletes	68	56	124
Total NOCs	19	17	21

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