Weightlifting at the 2007 Pan American Games
Venue	Complexo Esportivo Riocentro
Dates	July 14–18, 2007
«2003 2011»

Weightlifting at the 2007 Pan American Games
	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 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil were held between July 14 and 18, 2007 at the Complexo Esportivo Riocentro.

Competition schedule

There were at most three sessions of competition on each day of the 2007 Pan American Games Weightlifting program:

• Early afternoon session: 14:00–15:30 BRT
• Afternoon session: 16:00–17:30 BRT
• Evening session: 18:00–19:30 BRT

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Colombia	5	3	1	9
2	Cuba	5	1	0	6
3	Ecuador	2	0	1	3
4	Mexico	1	2	0	3
5	Dominican Republic	1	0	2	3
6	Chile	1	0	1	2
7	Venezuela	0	3	4	7
8	United States	0	2	2	4
9	Argentina	0	1	2	3
10	El Salvador	0	1	1	2
11	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Peru	0	1	0	1
13	Honduras	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		15	15	15	45

Medalists

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Sergio Álvarez  Cuba	Marvin López  El Salvador	Jaime Iturra  Chile
62 kg details	Diego Salazar  Colombia	Miñan Mogollon  Peru	David Mendoza  Honduras
69 kg details	Yordanis Borrero  Cuba	Edwin Mosquera  Colombia	Ricardo Flores  Ecuador
77 kg details	Iván Cambar  Cuba	José Ocando  Venezuela	Octavio Mejías  Venezuela
85 kg details	José Oliver Ruiz  Colombia	Jadier Valladares  Cuba	Herbys Márquez  Venezuela
94 kg details	Yoandry Hernández  Cuba	Julio Luna  Venezuela	Wilmer Torres  Colombia
105 kg details	Joel Mackenzie  Cuba	Pedro Stetsiuk  Argentina	Damián Abbiate  Argentina
+105 kg details	Cristián Escalante  Chile	Casey Burgener  United States	Victor Heredia  Venezuela

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Carolina Valencia  Mexico	Betsi Rivas  Venezuela	Guillermina Candelario  Dominican Republic
53 kg details	Yuderqui Contreras  Dominican Republic	Ana Margot Lemos  Colombia	Melanie Roach  United States
58 kg details	Alexandra Escobar  Ecuador	Rusmeris Villar  Colombia	María Cecilia Floriddia  Argentina
63 kg details	Leydi Solís  Colombia	Christine Girard  Canada	Natalie Woolfolk  United States
69 kg details	Tulia Medina  Colombia	Cinthya Domínguez  Mexico	Vanessa Nuñez  Venezuela
75 kg details	Ubaldina Valoyes  Colombia	Damaris Aguirre  Mexico	Eva Dimas  El Salvador
+75 kg details	Oliba Nieve  Ecuador	Emmy Vargas  United States	Yinelis Burgos  Dominican Republic

Participating nations

A total of 22 countries qualified athletes. The number of weightlifters a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country. A total of 118 lifters were entered.