Arley Méndez Perez (born 31 December 1993) is a Chilean weightlifter, World Champion and two time Pan American Champion competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and 89 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.

Career

He competed for Chile at the

2017 World Weightlifting Championships The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Anaheim, California, United States from 28 November to 5 December 2017. Doping bans Nine countries were banned from competing at the World Championships due to their history of doping at pre ...

winning the gold medal in all three categories in the –85 kg division, ahead of the Olympic champion and heavy favorite

Kianoush Rostami Kianoush Rostami ( fa, کیانوش رستمی, born 23 July 1991) is an Iranian Kurdish Olympic weightlifter, Olympian weightlifter. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in the 85 kg event, winning the gold medal and setting a new world rec ...

. In 2018 he competed in the newly created 89 kg category at the

2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design fi ...

in Ashgabat winning a gold medal in the Snatch portion of the competition. He represented Chile 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 ...

Major results

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mendez, Arley Living people 1993 births Chilean male weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists Naturalized citizens of Chile Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Chile 20th-century Chilean people 21st-century Chilean people