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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Dájomes and the second or maternal family name is Barrera.

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera
Dajomes in 2021
Personal information
Born (1998-05-12) 12 May 1998 (age 27)
Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight75.80 kg (167 lb)
Sport
CountryEcuador
SportWeightlifting
Event
–76 kg
Coached byMayra Hoyos[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 118 kg (2021)
  • Clean and jerk: 145 kg (2021)
  • Total: 263 kg (2021)
Medal record
Representing  Ecuador
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo–76 kg
Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris–81 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2017 Anaheim–75 kg
Bronze medal – third place2018 Ashgabat–76 kg
Bronze medal – third place2019 Pattaya–76 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Lima–76 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 Toronto–69 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 Miami–75 kg
Gold medal – first place2018 Santo Domingo–75 kg
Gold medal – first place2019 Guatemala City–76 kg
Gold medal – first place2022 Bogotá–81 kg
Gold medal – first place2023 Bariloche–81 kg
Gold medal – first place2024 Caracas–81 kg
South American Games
Gold medal – first place2018 Cochabamba–75 kg
Gold medal – first place2022 Asunción–87 kg
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place2016 Tbilisi–69 kg
Gold medal – first place2017 Tokyo–75 kg
Gold medal – first place2018 Tashkent–75 kg

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, who is the 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, a 6-time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and a 3-time Junior World Champion. As of 2024, she is the only female Ecuadorian athlete to win multiple Olympic medals. She competed in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2] She is the older sister of the 2023 Pan American champion and Olympic medalist weightlifter Angie Palacios.

As of 2 June 2025 Neisi Dajomes has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for presence of clomifene metabolite.[3][4]

Career

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Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[5] finishing seventh overall.

She became junior world champion in 2017 in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in 2018. She won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.[6]

In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships[7] winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in the 76 kg division.[8] In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led Aremi Fuentes by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal.[9]

Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[10]

She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[11][12] She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.[12] She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[13][14] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[15][16]

Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called Shell: Land of Champions.[17]

In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called Neisi: The Power of a Dream. It is expected to be released in November 2023.[18]

On 6 June 2024, the Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee, named her and the ecuadorian olympic walker Brian Pintado as the official flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, however was the dressage rider Julio Mendoza Loor, who was the partner in carry the flag in the opening ceremony, replacing to Pintado.[19] In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81 kg event.[20] She was leading after the Snatch with a 122 kg lift and went down to the third place after the Clean & Jerk with a total of 267 kg.[20]

Achievements

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YearVenueWeightSnatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)TotalRank
123Rank123Rank
Olympic Games
2016Rio de Janeiro, Brazil69 kg100104107N/a130135135N/a2377
2020Tokyo, Japan76 kg111115118N/a135140145N/a2631st place, gold medalist(s)
2024Paris, France81 kg118118122N/a145145151N/a2673rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships
2015Houston, United States69 kg9810210391251301321023310
2017Anaheim, United States75 kg1031061082nd place, silver medalist(s)1281321353rd place, bronze medalist(s)2402nd place, silver medalist(s)
2018Ashgabat, Turkmenistan76 kg1101151173rd place, bronze medalist(s)13714214642593rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2019Pattaya, Thailand76 kg1101151163rd place, bronze medalist(s)13513913942453rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2022Bogotá, Colombia81 kg116116117414114514652585
2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia81 kg1151181203rd place, bronze medalist(s)——————
IWF World Cup
2024Phuket, Thailand81 kg1181211231st place, gold medalist(s)143146—3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2691st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Games
2015Toronto, Canada69 kg9898100N/a121123125N/a2252nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019Lima, Peru76 kg109112115N/a135135140N/a2551st place, gold medalist(s)
Pan American Championships
2017Miami, United States75 kg1031071101st place, gold medalist(s)1281311401st place, gold medalist(s)2411st place, gold medalist(s)
2018Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic75 kg1071111141st place, gold medalist(s)1321371401st place, gold medalist(s)2481st place, gold medalist(s)
2019Guatemala City, Guatemala76 kg1041081091st place, gold medalist(s)131136—1st place, gold medalist(s)2451st place, gold medalist(s)
2022Bogotá, Colombia81 kg1131171201st place, gold medalist(s)1381431431st place, gold medalist(s)2631st place, gold medalist(s)
2023Bariloche, Argentina81 kg1061111151st place, gold medalist(s)1361411452nd place, silver medalist(s)2561st place, gold medalist(s)
2024Caracas, Venezuela81 kg1151181211st place, gold medalist(s)1411411461st place, gold medalist(s)2621st place, gold medalist(s)
Junior World Championships
2016Tbilisi, Georgia69 kg991031051st place, gold medalist(s)123125—1st place, gold medalist(s)2301st place, gold medalist(s)
2017Tokyo, Japan75 kg1031061081st place, gold medalist(s)1281341341st place, gold medalist(s)2421st place, gold medalist(s)
2018Tashkent, Uzbekistan75 kg1051101151st place, gold medalist(s)1281341401st place, gold medalist(s)2551st place, gold medalist(s)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Athlete Profile". IWF.net. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  2. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 76 kg
  3. ^ IWF Anti-Doping Rule Violations
  4. ^ "Neisi Dajomes suspendida: qué pasará con sus medallas olímpicas". El Comercio (in Spanish). 13 June 2025.
  5. ^ "Neisi Dajomes". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  6. ^ "76kg Results". IWF.net. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  7. ^ "2019 Pan American Championships Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  8. ^ 2019 Pan American Games Results
  9. ^ "Neisi Dajomes consigue la primera medalla de oro para Ecuador en los Juegos Panamericanos Lima 2019". El Comercio. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Women's 76 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  11. ^ Iveson, Ali (29 July 2022). "Rogers stars for US but Colombia dominate at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  12. ^ a b "2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  13. ^ Núñez, Felipe (4 July 2022). "Neisi Dajomes obtiene doble medalla de oro en los Juegos Bolivarianos". Primicias.ec. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  14. ^ "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  15. ^ Benitez, Karla (5 October 2022). "Guayanesa Yorgelis Salazar y Orluis Aular aportan oro para Venezuela en Asunción 2022". Primicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  16. ^ "Women's 87 kg" (PDF). 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Shell: Tierra de campeones: Película documental ecuatoriana en desarrollo". Asociación de Documentalistas del Ecuador (in Spanish). 6 August 2021. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023.
  18. ^ Araujo, Adela (11 October 2023). ""Neisi, la fuerza de un sueño" el documental que relatará la historia de la campeona mundial de halterofilia". Metro Ecuador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 October 2023.
  19. ^ "Neisi Dajomes y Daniel Pintado son los abanderados de Ecuador para los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024" (in Spanish). El Universo.com. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  20. ^ a b "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neisi_Dajomes&oldid=1307462442"

    Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera
    Dajomes in 2021
    Personal information
    Born (1998-05-12) 12 May 1998 (age 27)
    Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
    Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
    Weight75.80 kg (167 lb)
    Sport
    CountryEcuador
    SportWeightlifting
    Event
    		–76 kg
    Coached byMayra Hoyos[1]
    Achievements and titles
    Personal bests
    • Snatch: 118 kg (2021)
    • Clean and jerk: 145 kg (2021)
    • Total: 263 kg (2021)
    Medal record
    Representing  Ecuador
    Women's weightlifting
    Olympic Games
    Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo–76 kg
    Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris–81 kg
    World Championships
    Silver medal – second place2017 Anaheim–75 kg
    Bronze medal – third place2018 Ashgabat–76 kg
    Bronze medal – third place2019 Pattaya–76 kg
    Pan American Games
    Gold medal – first place2019 Lima–76 kg
    Silver medal – second place2015 Toronto–69 kg
    Pan American Championships
    Gold medal – first place2017 Miami–75 kg
    Gold medal – first place2018 Santo Domingo–75 kg
    Gold medal – first place2019 Guatemala City–76 kg
    Gold medal – first place2022 Bogotá–81 kg
    Gold medal – first place2023 Bariloche–81 kg
    Gold medal – first place2024 Caracas–81 kg
    South American Games
    Gold medal – first place2018 Cochabamba–75 kg
    Gold medal – first place2022 Asunción–87 kg
    Junior World Championships
    Gold medal – first place2016 Tbilisi–69 kg
    Gold medal – first place2017 Tokyo–75 kg
    Gold medal – first place2018 Tashkent–75 kg

    Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, who is the 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, a 6-time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and a 3-time Junior World Champion. As of 2024, she is the only female Ecuadorian athlete to win multiple Olympic medals. She competed in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2] She is the older sister of the 2023 Pan American champion and Olympic medalist weightlifter Angie Palacios.

    As of 2 June 2025 Neisi Dajomes has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for presence of clomifene metabolite.[3][4]

    Career

    Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[5] finishing seventh overall.

    She became junior world champion in 2017 in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in 2018. She won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.[6]

    In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships[7] winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in the 76 kg division.[8] In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led Aremi Fuentes by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal.[9]

    Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[10]

    She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[11][12] She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition.[12] She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.[13][14] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.[15][16]

    Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.

    In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called Shell: Land of Champions.[17]

    In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called Neisi: The Power of a Dream. It is expected to be released in November 2023.[18]

    On 6 June 2024, the Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee, named her and the ecuadorian olympic walker Brian Pintado as the official flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, however was the dressage rider Julio Mendoza Loor, who was the partner in carry the flag in the opening ceremony, replacing to Pintado.[19] In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81 kg event.[20] She was leading after the Snatch with a 122 kg lift and went down to the third place after the Clean & Jerk with a total of 267 kg.[20]

    Achievements

    YearVenueWeightSnatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)TotalRank
    123Rank123Rank
    Olympic Games
    2016Rio de Janeiro, Brazil69 kg100104107N/a130135135N/a2377
    2020Tokyo, Japan76 kg111115118N/a135140145N/a2631st place, gold medalist(s)
    2024Paris, France81 kg118118122N/a145145151N/a2673rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    World Championships
    2015Houston, United States69 kg9810210391251301321023310
    2017Anaheim, United States75 kg1031061082nd place, silver medalist(s)1281321353rd place, bronze medalist(s)2402nd place, silver medalist(s)
    2018Ashgabat, Turkmenistan76 kg1101151173rd place, bronze medalist(s)13714214642593rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    2019Pattaya, Thailand76 kg1101151163rd place, bronze medalist(s)13513913942453rd place, bronze medalist(s)
    2022Bogotá, Colombia81 kg116116117414114514652585
    2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia81 kg1151181203rd place, bronze medalist(s)——————
    IWF World Cup
    2024Phuket, Thailand81 kg1181211231st place, gold medalist(s)143146—3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2691st place, gold medalist(s)
    Pan American Games
    2015Toronto, Canada69 kg9898100N/a121123125N/a2252nd place, silver medalist(s)
    2019Lima, Peru76 kg109112115N/a135135140N/a2551st place, gold medalist(s)
    Pan American Championships
    2017Miami, United States75 kg1031071101st place, gold medalist(s)1281311401st place, gold medalist(s)2411st place, gold medalist(s)
    2018Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic75 kg1071111141st place, gold medalist(s)1321371401st place, gold medalist(s)2481st place, gold medalist(s)
    2019Guatemala City, Guatemala76 kg1041081091st place, gold medalist(s)131136—1st place, gold medalist(s)2451st place, gold medalist(s)
    2022Bogotá, Colombia81 kg1131171201st place, gold medalist(s)1381431431st place, gold medalist(s)2631st place, gold medalist(s)
    2023Bariloche, Argentina81 kg1061111151st place, gold medalist(s)1361411452nd place, silver medalist(s)2561st place, gold medalist(s)
    2024Caracas, Venezuela81 kg1151181211st place, gold medalist(s)1411411461st place, gold medalist(s)2621st place, gold medalist(s)
    Junior World Championships
    2016Tbilisi, Georgia69 kg991031051st place, gold medalist(s)123125—1st place, gold medalist(s)2301st place, gold medalist(s)
    2017Tokyo, Japan75 kg1031061081st place, gold medalist(s)1281341341st place, gold medalist(s)2421st place, gold medalist(s)
    2018Tashkent, Uzbekistan75 kg1051101151st place, gold medalist(s)1281341401st place, gold medalist(s)2551st place, gold medalist(s)

    References

    1. ^ "Athlete Profile". IWF.net. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
    2. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 76 kg
    3. ^ IWF Anti-Doping Rule Violations
    4. ^ "Neisi Dajomes suspendida: qué pasará con sus medallas olímpicas". El Comercio (in Spanish). 13 June 2025.
    5. ^ "Neisi Dajomes". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
    6. ^ "76kg Results". IWF.net. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
    7. ^ "2019 Pan American Championships Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
    8. ^ 2019 Pan American Games Results
    9. ^ "Neisi Dajomes consigue la primera medalla de oro para Ecuador en los Juegos Panamericanos Lima 2019". El Comercio. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
    10. ^ "Women's 76 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
    11. ^ Iveson, Ali (29 July 2022). "Rogers stars for US but Colombia dominate at Pan American Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
    12. ^ a b "2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
    13. ^ Núñez, Felipe (4 July 2022). "Neisi Dajomes obtiene doble medalla de oro en los Juegos Bolivarianos". Primicias.ec. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
    14. ^ "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
    15. ^ Benitez, Karla (5 October 2022). "Guayanesa Yorgelis Salazar y Orluis Aular aportan oro para Venezuela en Asunción 2022". Primicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2022.
    16. ^ "Women's 87 kg" (PDF). 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
    17. ^ "Shell: Tierra de campeones: Película documental ecuatoriana en desarrollo". Asociación de Documentalistas del Ecuador (in Spanish). 6 August 2021. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023.
    18. ^ Araujo, Adela (11 October 2023). ""Neisi, la fuerza de un sueño" el documental que relatará la historia de la campeona mundial de halterofilia". Metro Ecuador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 October 2023.
    19. ^ "Neisi Dajomes y Daniel Pintado son los abanderados de Ecuador para los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024" (in Spanish). El Universo.com. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
    20. ^ a b "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neisi_Dajomes&oldid=1307462442"