Mabel Mosquera Mena (born July 1, 1969) is a

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 ...

from

Quibdó Quibdó () is the capital city of Chocó Department, in Western Colombia, and is located on the Atrato River. The municipality of Quibdó has an area of 3,337.5 km² and a population of 129,237, predominantly Afro Colombian, including Zambo C ...

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. Born in

Department of Chocó Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

, she started weightlifting in 1999. She competed in the women's 53 kg weight class at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. Lifting 197.5 kg in total, she won the bronze medal in

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1969 births Living people People from Quibdó Olympic weightlifters of Colombia Weightlifters at the 2003 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Colombia Olympic medalists in weightlifting Colombian female weightlifters Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Chocó Department 20th-century Colombian women 21st-century Colombian women {{Colombia-weightlifting-bio-stub