Bella Nancy Paredes Arreaga (born 25 February 2002) is an Ecuadorian

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 won two silver medals at the

2022 Bolivarian Games The 2022 Bolivarian Games (Spanish:''Juegos Bolivarianos''), officially the XIX Bolivarian Games Valledupar 2022, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Valledupar, Colombia from June 24 to July 5. It was the fifth time of the ev ...

held in Valledupar, Colombia. She is also a former

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

Career

She competed in the girls' +63kg event at the

2018 Summer Youth Olympics The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held ...

held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She finished in 4th place. At the time, she finished in 5th place but Supatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships held in Las Vegas, United States. In 2021, she won the silver medal in the women's 76kg event at the

Junior World Weightlifting Championships The IWF Junior World Championships is organised by the International Weightlifting Federation The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Lausanne, is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlif ...

held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She won the gold medal in the women's 87kg event at the

2021 Junior Pan American Games The 2021 Junior Pan American Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Panamericanos Junior 2021'') was an international multi-sports event for athletes aged 17 to 22 in the Americas, organized by Panam Sports held in Cali and Valle, Colombia between November 2 ...

held in Cali and Valle, Colombia. She won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Heraklion, Greece. She won two silver medals at the

held in Valledupar, Colombia. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76kg Snatch event at the

2022 World Weightlifting Championships The 2022 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held in Bogotá, Colombia in December 2022. It was scheduled to be held in Chongqing, China but this changed in March 2022 as a result of COVID-19 measures in China. The ...

held in Bogotá, Colombia. She competed in

artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

before switching to weightlifting.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paredes, Bella Living people 2002 births Place of birth missing (living people) Ecuadorian female artistic gymnasts Ecuadorian female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century Ecuadorian women