Gerald Vega Morales (born July 22, 1986) is a Puerto Rican

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 ...

. Vega represented

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at the

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, where she competed for the women's lightweight category (58 kg). Vega placed ninth in this event, as she successfully lifted 90 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 112 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

, for a total of 202 kg.

References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile

Geralee Vega Olympics Profile
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