Elizabeth Francesca Poblete Fernández (born 28 September 1987 in

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) is a Chilean weightlifter. Poblete represented

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at the

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, where she competed for the women's heavyweight category (75 kg). Poblete placed twelfth in this event, as she successfully lifted 91 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 106 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

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, for a total of 197 kg. On 8 December 2009, Poblete was featured in the world headlines, when she unexpectedly gave birth to a boy during a training session in Brazil, not even realizing that she was pregnant. Her boy was three months premature, and was taken to a local hospital in

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with his mother, where he remained in the intensive care unit. Unfortunately, the boy named Eric Jose died within a week.

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