Lidia Valentín

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Valentín and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.
Lidia Valentín

Lidia Valentín in 2012.
Personal information
Birth name Lidia Valentin Perez
Nationality Spanish
Born (1985-02-10) February 10, 1985
Ponferrada, Spain[1][2]
Years active 2002-
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Country  Spain
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) 75 kg
Club Cas-Leonesa, CLE
Coached by Matias Fernandez
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 124 kg (2014, Almaty)
  • Clean & Jerk: 147 kg (2014)
  • Total: 268 kg (2014)
Updated on 17 April 2015.

Lidia Valentín Pérez (born February 10, 1985) is a Spanish weightlifter competing mainly in the Women's 75 kg category.

Career

At the 2007 World Championships she ranked overall sixth in the 75 kg category with a total of 240 kg.[3] At the 2013 World Championships Lidia placed 3rd in the snatch until Olga Zubova got disqualified for using a banned substance in competition,[4] which increased Lidia's position to third in the total and second in the snatch.[5]

Valentín competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, finishing in fifth and fourth place, respectively.[6][7]

At the European Championships, she won overall one gold medal in 2014, three silver medals in 2008, 2012 and 2013 and another three bronze medals in 2007, 2009 and 2011, with two gold medals and four silver medals in the snatch and one gold medal, one silver medal and five bronze medals in the clean and jerk.[3]

See also

Notes and references

  1. "Lidia, I de España y III de Europa" (in Spanish). Diario de León. 2009-04-12. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
  2. "Lidia Valentín logra el bronce en el Europeo de 75 kilos" (in Spanish). Marca. 2009-04-10. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
  3. 1 2 "Valentin Lidia (ESP)". IAT Weightlifting Database.
  4. http://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctioned-athletes/
  5. http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=253
  6. Lidia Valentín . sports-reference.com
  7. "Diploma olímpico para la haltera Lidia Valentín" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2009-04-18.

External links


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