Yenny Sinisterra (born 4 May 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 lift ...

. She won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event at the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019 ( qu, Limaq 2019), were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Spo ...

held in Lima, Peru. A month earlier, at the

2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships The 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships were held in Suva, Fiji at the National Gymnasium from 1 to 8 June 2019. Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean ...

held in Suva, Fiji, she won the silver medal in the women's 55kg event. In 2017, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the

Bolivarian Games The Bolivarian Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Bolivarianos'', full name ''Juegos Deportivos Bolivarianos'') are a regional multi-sport event held in honor of Simón Bolívar, and organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (''Organización Deport ...

held in Santa Marta, Colombia. In that same year, she also competed in the women's 53 kg event at the

2017 World Weightlifting Championships The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Anaheim, California, United States from 28 November to 5 December 2017. Doping bans Nine countries were banned from competing at the World Championships due to their history of doping at pre ...

held in Anaheim, United States. The following year, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the

2018 South American Games The 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was the 11th edition of the ODESUR South American Games. A total of 373 sporting events are scheduled to be contested across a variety of sports. B ...

held in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She also competed in the women's 55 kg event at the

2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design fi ...

held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In 2019, she competed in the women's 55 kg event 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 categori ...

held in Pattaya, Thailand. She finished in 5th place. In February 2020, she was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroid

boldenone Boldenone (developmental code name RU-18761), is a naturally occurring anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) and the 1(2)- dehydrogenated analogue of testosterone. Boldenone itself has never been marketed; as a pharmaceutical drug, it is used as ...

. , her case is being contested at the

Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; french: Tribunal arbitral du sport, ''TAS'') is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and its co ...

as she may have ingested it after eating tainted meat and in Colombia boldenone is used for fattening cattle.

References

External links

* Living people 2000 births Place of birth missing (living people) Colombian female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting South American Games gold medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2018 South American Games Colombian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in weightlifting 21st-century Colombian women {{Colombia-weightlifting-bio-stub