Aremi Fuentes Zavala (born 23 May 1993) is a Mexican

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

. She competes in the 69 and 76 kg categories, in addition to representing Mexico in international competitions.

Career

She competed at world championships, including at the

2015 World Weightlifting Championships The 2015 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Houston, United States. The event took place from November 19 to 28, 2015. This event was, together with the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships, the first stage of the Qualification Pro ...

. In 2021, Fuentes competed at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in the women's 76 kg weightlifting competition by lifting 108 kg and 137 kg in the snatch and clean & jerk phases respectively for a total of 245 kg to win the bronze medal, being this the third bronze one earned for her country.

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* * * * 1993 births Living people Mexican female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Weightlifters at the 2011 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2015 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in weightlifting Olympic bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Sportspeople from Chiapas People from Tonalá, Chiapas Olympic weightlifters of Mexico 21st-century Mexican women {{Mexico-weightlifting-bio-stub