Luis Miguel Pineda Madrid (born August 3, 1988 in
Montería
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,
Córdoba) is a Colombian
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 lif ...
. Pineda represented
Colombia at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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, where he competed for the
men's lightweight category (69 kg), along with his teammate
Edwin Mosquera Edwin Mosquera may refer to:
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. Pineda placed thirteenth in this event, as he successfully lifted 132 kg in the single-motion
snatch, and hoisted 167 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead
clean and jerk, for a total of 299 kg. He won the silver medal at the
2008 Pan American Weightlifting Championships.
Major results
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
Colombian male weightlifters
1988 births
Living people
Olympic weightlifters for Colombia
Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Antioquia Department
Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
21st-century Colombian people
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