Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera
Personal information
NationalityEcuadorian
Born (1998-05-12) 12 May 1998 (age 25)
Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight75.80 kg (167 lb)
Sport
CountryEcuador
SportWeightlifting
Event–76 kg
Coached byMayra Hoyos[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 118 kg (2021)
  • Clean and jerk: 145 kg (2021)
  • Total: 263 kg (2021)
Medal record
Representing  Ecuador
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo –76 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Anaheim –75 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Ashgabat –76 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Pattaya –76 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima –76 kg
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto –69 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Miami –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Santo Domingo –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Guatemala City –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá –81 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Bariloche –81 kg
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Cochabamba –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción –87 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Tbilisi –69 kg
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tokyo –75 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Tashkent –75 kg

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, 4 time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and 3 time Junior World Champion competing 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2] She is the older sister of Angie Palacios.

Career

Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[3] finishing seventh overall.

She became junior world champion in 2017 in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in 2018. She won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.[4]

In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships[5] winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in the 76 kg division.[6] In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led Aremi Fuentes by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal.[7]

Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[8]

She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[9][10] She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.[10] She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[11][12] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[13][14]

Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina.

In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called Shell: Land of Champions.[15]

In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called Neisi: The Power of a Dream. It is expected to be released in November 2023.[16]

Achievements

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Representing  Ecuador
Olympic Games
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 69kg 100 104 107 6 130 135 135 9 237 7
2020 Japan Tokyo, Japan 76kg 111 115 118 1 135 140 145 1 263 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2015 United States Houston, United States 69kg 98 102 103 9 125 130 132 10 233 10
2017 United States Anaheim, United States 75 kg 103 106 108 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 128 132 135 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 240 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018 Turkmenistan Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 76 kg 110 115 117 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 137 142 146 4 259 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Pan American Games
2015 Canada Toronto, Canada 69 kg 98 98 100 2 121 123 125 2 225 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019 Peru Lima, Peru 76 kg 109 112 115 1 135 135 140 1 255 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Weightlifting Championships
2017 United States Miami, United States 75 kg 103 107 110 1st place, gold medalist(s) 128 131 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 241 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 75 kg 107 111 114 1st place, gold medalist(s) 132 137 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 248 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2019 Guatemala Guatemala City, Guatemala 76 kg 104 108 109 1st place, gold medalist(s) 131 136 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 245 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 81 kg 113 117 120 1st place, gold medalist(s) 138 143 143 1st place, gold medalist(s) 263 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
2016 Georgia (country) Tbilisi, Georgia 69 kg 99 103 105 1st place, gold medalist(s) 123 125 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 230 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2017 Japan Tokyo, Japan 75 kg 103 106 108 1st place, gold medalist(s) 128 134 134 1st place, gold medalist(s) 242 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Uzbekistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan 75 kg 105 110 115 1st place, gold medalist(s) 128 134 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 255 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ "Athlete Profile". IWF.net. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  2. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 76 kg
  3. ^ "Neisi Dajomes". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. ^ "76kg Results". IWF.net. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  5. ^ "2019 Pan American Championships Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  6. ^ 2019 Pan American Games Results
  7. ^ "Neisi Dajomes consigue la primera medalla de oro para Ecuador en los Juegos Panamericanos Lima 2019". El Comercio. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Women's 76 kg Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  9. ^ Iveson, Ali (29 July 2022). "Rogers stars for US but Colombia dominate at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Núñez, Felipe (4 July 2022). "Neisi Dajomes obtiene doble medalla de oro en los Juegos Bolivarianos". Primicias.ec. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  12. ^ "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  13. ^ Benitez, Karla (5 October 2022). "Guayanesa Yorgelis Salazar y Orluis Aular aportan oro para Venezuela en Asunción 2022". Primicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  14. ^ "Women's 87 kg" (PDF). 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  15. ^ "Shell: Tierra de campeones: Película documental ecuatoriana en desarrollo". Asociación de Documentalistas del Ecuador (in Spanish). 6 August 2021. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023.
  16. ^ Araujo, Adela (11 October 2023). ""Neisi, la fuerza de un sueño" el documental que relatará la historia de la campeona mundial de halterofilia". Metro Ecuador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 October 2023.

External links

Olympic Champions in Weightlifting – Women's Light Heavyweight
Pan American Champions in Weightlifting – Women's Light Heavyweight
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