Welisson Rosa da Silva (born November 22, 1983, in Viçosa, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian weightlifter. He represented Brazil at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing, where he placed eighteenth in the men's lightweight category (69 kg), with a snatch of 135 kg, and a

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

of 155 kg, for a total of 290 kg.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1983 births Living people Brazilian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Brazil Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Minas Gerais 21st-century Brazilian people People from Viçosa, Minas Gerais {{Brazil-weightlifting-bio-stub