Leydi Yesenia Solís Arboleda (born 17 February 1990) is a Colombian

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. She won a gold medal at the

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for her native

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n country, and carried the flag at the opening ceremony. Solís represented Colombia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, finishing in fourth place in her weight division. She won the – 69 kg gold medal in snatch and clean & jerk during the

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2008 Summer Olympics performance

Solís won a silver medal at the

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behind Rusia's

Oxana Slivenko Oksana Nikolayevna Slivenko (russian: Оксана Николаевна Сливенко; born 20 December 1986 in Chekhov, Moscow Oblast), known professionally as Oxana Slivenko, is a Russian weightlifter. Career She won the silver medal at t ...

. Solís lifted 105 kg and took the silver medal with a total weight of 240 kg.

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* * * 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Valle del Cauca Department Olympic weightlifters for Colombia Olympic silver medalists for Colombia Weightlifters at the 2007 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Colombian female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia Female powerlifters Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games World Weightlifting Championships medalists South American Games gold medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2010 South American Games Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Colombian women {{Colombia-weightlifting-bio-stub