Vencelas Dabaya Tientcheu (born 28 April 1981 in

Kumba Kumba is a metropolitan city in the Meme department, Southwest Region, Western Cameroon, referred as "K-town" in local slang. Kumba is the most developed and largest city in the Meme Department and has attracted people from the local villag ...

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

) is a French

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 ...

. He is a former World Champion, European champion and Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he represented

, and was flag bearer of the Cameroonian team at the opening ceremony. In the Olympic tournament he ranked 5th in the 69 kg category, with a total of 327.5 kg. He represents France since he became naturalized French citizen in November 2004. He won the bronze medal in the 69 kg category at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships. Dabaya participated in the men's -69 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the gold medal, snatching 146 kg and jerking an additional 186 kg for a total of 332 kg. With his gold medal, became weightlifting's 500th World Champion and received the special IWF Award for this honour. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships he ranked 4th in the 69 kg category. He won the silver medal in the 69 kg category at the 2008 European Weightlifting Championships, lifting a total of 333 kg. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the 69 kg category, lifting a total of 338 kg. He won gold in the clean and jerk, bronze in the snatch, and overall silver with a total of 333 kg at the 2009 European Weightlifting Championships in the 69 kg category. He is tall and weighs .

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Athlete Biography
at beijing2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dabaya, Vencelas Living people 1981 births Cameroonian male weightlifters French male weightlifters Cameroonian emigrants to France Olympic weightlifters for Cameroon Olympic weightlifters for France Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Olympic silver medalists for France Naturalized citizens of France People from Southwest Region (Cameroon) Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Cameroon Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting African Games bronze medalists for Cameroon African Games medalists in weightlifting Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games