Manuela Andrea Berrío Zuluaga (born 18 June 2000) 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 ...

. She is a two-time medalist at the

World Weightlifting Championships The World Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The first competition, held in March 1891, was won by Edward Lawrence Levy of England. Athletes compete in a total of 20 weight categorie ...

(silver in 2021 and bronze in 2022). She is also a gold medalist at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the

2022 Bolivarian Games The 2022 Bolivarian Games (Spanish:''Juegos Bolivarianos''), officially the XIX Bolivarian Games Valledupar 2022, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Valledupar, Colombia from June 24 to July 5. It was the fifth time of the ev ...

Career

Berrío won the gold medal in the women's 44kg event at the 2016 Youth World Weightlifting Championships held in Penang, Malaysia. Berrío won the gold medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Guatemala City, Guatemala. In 2021, she won the bronze medal in the women's 49kg event at the 2020 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She won the silver medal in the women's 45kg event at the

2021 World Weightlifting Championships The 2021 World Weightlifting Championships was a weightlifting competition held from 7 to 17 December in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Due to concerns about the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron variant and held shortly after 2020 Summer ...

held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She won the bronze medal in the women's 45kg 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berrio, Manuela Living people 2000 births Place of birth missing (living people) Colombian female weightlifters Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Colombian women Sportspeople from Palmira, Valle del Cauca Bolivarian Games gold medalists for Colombia Bolivarian Games medalists in weightlifting