David Sánchez López (born 20 July 1994) is a Spanish

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

who competes in the 69 kg category. He placed tenth at the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, and competed at the

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2015 World Weightlifting Championships The 2015 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Houston, United States. The event took place from November 19 to 28, 2015. This event was, together with the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships, the first stage of the Weightlifting at t ...

. Taking up the sport as a fifteen-year-old teen, Sánchez was named Male Sportsperson of the Year in 2013.

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* 1994 births Living people Spanish male weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists Olympic weightlifters for Spain Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games competitors for Spain Weightlifters at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from Melilla 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-weightlifting-bio-stub