Loredana Toma

Toma in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Loredana Elena Toma
Nickname	Tomanator
Nationality	Romanian
Born	(1995-05-10) 10 May 1995 (age 28)
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	63.95 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Country	Romania
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	–71 kg
Club	Clubul Sportiv Botoșani
Coached by	Constantin Urdaș[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Snatch: 119 kg (2022, CWR) Clean and jerk: 137 kg (2022) Total: 256 kg (2022)
Medal record Representing  Romania World Championships 2017 Anaheim –63 kg 2022 Bogotá –71 kg 2018 Ashgabat –64 kg 2019 Pattaya –64 kg European Championships 2017 Split –63 kg 2018 Bucharest –63 kg 2019 Batumi –64 kg 2021 Moscow –64 kg 2023 Yerevan –71 kg 2013 Tirana –58 kg 2014 Tel Aviv –58 kg European Junior Championships 2011 Bucharest –58 kg 2012 Eilat –58 kg Youth World Championships 2012 Košice –63 kg European Youth Championships 2012 Bucharest –63 kg

Loredana Elena Toma (born 10 May 1995) is a Romanian weightlifter,^[2] two time World Champion and four time European Champion competing in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.^[3] She now competes at the 71kg category. In 2014 she tested positive for Stanozolol and was banned for two years by the International Weightlifting Federation.^[4]

Career

World Championships

After winning the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships she competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in the 63 kg division. She won gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and total, finishing with a total of 237 kg, a full 12 kg over the silver medalist Lina Rivas.^[5] She won the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in the 71kg division, snatching a new world record of 119kg and clean and jerking 137kg for a total of 256kg.^[6]

European Championships

After winning two silver medals in the 58 kg categories at the 2013 and 2014 European Weightlifting Championships she moved up weight classes to the 63 kg in 2017. At the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships she won gold medals in all lifts to win her first European Championship.

In 2018, fresh off of a World Championships gold medal, she competed at the 2018 European Weightlifting Championships^[7] in her home country of Romania. She again won gold medals in all lifts, with her final total of 236 kg being 17 kg over the silver medalist Irina Lepșa, and 6 kg over the gold medallist of the next highest (69 kg) category.^[8]

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
World Championships
2013	Wrocław, Poland	58 kg	91	95	98	6	111	116	118	5	213	4
2017	Anaheim, United States	63 kg	103	106	109		123	126	128		237
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	64 kg	106	110	112		124	128	129	7	234
2019	Pattaya, Thailand	64 kg	107	112	116		127	127	128	4	240
2022	Bogotá, Colombia	71 kg	113	117	119 WR		133	137	140	4	256
European Championships
2012	Antalya, Turkey	63 kg	77	82	85	6	97	102	105	9	187	7
2013	Tirana, Albania	58 kg	89	93	96		108	113	117		210
2014	Tel Aviv, Israel	58 kg	90	93	96		111	115	119		211
2017	Split, Croatia	63 kg	100	104	104		121	126	130		226
2018	Bucharest, Romania	63 kg	100	105	110		121	126	131		236
2019	Batumi, Georgia	64 kg	106	111	114		125	128	132		239
2021	Moscow, Russia	64 kg	101	107	114		123	130	137		244
2023	Yerevan, Armenia	71 kg	105	110	115		125	130	130		240
IWF World Cup
2020	Rome, Italy	64 kg	100	105	113		122	130	136		249