Jourdan Elizabeth Delacruz (born May 20, 1998) is an American

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. She is a two-time gold medalist at the

Pan American Weightlifting Championships The Pan American Weightlifting Championships is the continental weightlifting championships for nations from North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean organised by Pan American Weightlifting Federation (PAWF). Senior editio ...

. In 2021, she represented the United States at the

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in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

She won the silver medal in the women's 53 kg event at the

2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 Junior World Weightlifting Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, itali ...

held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In that same year, she competed in the women's 55 kg event 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, Turkmenistan. At the

2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships The 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships was held in Guatemala City, Guatemala from 23 to 27 April 2019. Medal summary Men Women Medals tables Results including snatch and clean & jerk medals Total results Team ranking Men ...

held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, she won the gold medal in the women's 55kg event. She also represented the United States at the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...

in Lima, Peru in the women's 55 kg event. She finished in 4th place. In that same year, she competed in the women's 55 kg event at the

2019 World Weightlifting Championships The 2019 World Weightlifting Championships was held in Pattaya, Thailand from 18 to 27 September 2019. On September 12, Egypt was banned from competing at these Championships due to multiple doping offenses. The host nation, Thailand, was also ban ...

held in Pattaya, Thailand. After this competition, she began competing in the 49kg

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and she won the gold medal in this event at the 2019 International Naim Suleymanoglu Tournament held in Gaziantep, Turkey. In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 49kg event at the

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in Rome, Italy. She also won the gold medals in both the 49kg Snatch and 49kg Clean & Jerk events. In 2021, she won the gold medal in the women's 49kg event at the

2020 Pan American Weightlifting Championships The 2020 Pan American Weightlifting Championships were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 19 to 24 April 2021. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and ...

held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She also won the gold medal in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events. She represented the United States at the

in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 49kg event where she did not rank after failing to register a result in the Clean & Jerk. She won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. She also won the gold medal in the Clean & Jerk event in this competition. She finished in 7th place in the women's 49kg 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.

Achievements

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delacruz, Jourdan Living people 1998 births Place of birth missing (living people) American female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for the United States Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of the United States 21st-century American women