Arley Méndez
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Birth name | Arley Méndez Perez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1993-12-31) December 31, 1993 (age 30) San Cristóbal, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81.00 kg (179 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | –81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Giorgi Panchev[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Arley Méndez Perez (born 31 December 1993) is a Chilean weightlifter, World Champion and two time Pan American Champion competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and 89 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3]
Career
He competed for Chile at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships winning the gold medal in all three categories in the –85 kg division, ahead of the Olympic champion and heavy favorite Kianoush Rostami.[4][5]
In 2018, he competed in the newly created 89 kg category at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat winning a gold medal in the Snatch portion of the competition.[6]
He represented Chile at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[7]
In 2024, he won the silver medal in the men's 89 kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.
Major results
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2021 | ![]() | 81 kg | 160 | 8 | — | — | — | |||||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2017 | ![]() | 85 kg | 163 | 171 | 175 | ![]() | 203 | ![]() | 378 | ![]() | ||
2018 | ![]() | 89 kg | 160 | 169 | ![]() | 190 | 200 | 7 | 369 | 5 |
References
- ^ "Weightlifting. Men's 81 kg. Group A. Competition Sheet" (PDF). olympics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Athlete Biography". IWF.net. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 89 kg
- ^ "Arley Méndez ganó el "Cóndor de Oro" como mejor deportista de 2017". adnradio.cl. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "Chile's Arley Mendez wins gold at World Weightlifting Championship 2017". Santiago Times. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "Arley Méndez se coronó campeón mundial en Turkmenistán". adnradio.cl. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ ADN (23 June 2021). "El Team Chile ya suma 52 clasificados a los JJ.OO. de Tokio". ADN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-06-27.
External links
- Arley Méndez at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Arley Méndez at Olympedia
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- 1920:
Josef Straßberger (GER)
- 1922:
Roger François (FRA)
- 1923:
Jaroslav Skobla (TCH)
- 1937:
Fritz Haller (AUT)
- 1938:
John Davis (USA)
- 1946:
Grigory Novak (URS)
- 1947:
John Terpak (USA)
- 1949:
Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1950:
Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1951:
Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1953:
Arkady Vorobyov (URS)
- 1954:
Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1955:
Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1957:
Trofim Lomakin (URS)
- 1958:
Trofim Lomakin (URS)
- 1959:
Rudolf Plyukfelder (URS)
- 1961:
Rudolf Plyukfelder (URS)
- 1962:
Győző Veres (HUN)
- 1963:
Győző Veres (HUN)
- 1964:
Rudolf Plyukfelder (URS)
- 1965:
Norbert Ozimek (POL)
- 1966:
Vladimir Belyaev (URS)
- 1968:
Boris Selitsky (URS)
- 1969:
Masushi Ouchi (JPN)
- 1970:
Gennady Ivanchenko (URS)
- 1971:
Boris Pavlov (URS)
- 1972:
Leif Jenssen (NOR)
- 1973:
Vladimir Ryzhenkov (URS)
- 1974:
Trendafil Stoychev (BUL)
- 1975:
Valery Shary (URS)
- 1976:
Valery Shary (URS)
- 1977:
Gennady Bessonov (URS)
- 1978:
Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1979:
Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1980:
Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1981:
Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1982:
Asen Zlatev (BUL)
- 1983:
Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1984:
Petre Becheru (ROU)
- 1985:
Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1986:
Asen Zlatev (BUL)
- 1987:
László Barsi (HUN)
- 1989:
Kiril Kounev (BUL)
- 1990:
Altymyrat Orazdurdyýew (URS)
- 1991:
Ibragim Samadov (URS)
- 1993:
Pyrros Dimas (GRE)
- 1994:
Marc Huster (GER)
- 1995:
Pyrros Dimas (GRE)
- 1997:
Andrzej Cofalik (POL)
- 1998:
Pyrros Dimas (GRE)
- 1999:
Shahin Nassirinia (IRI)
- 2001:
Giorgi Asanidze (GEO)
- 2002:
Zlatan Vanev (BUL)
- 2003:
Valeriu Calancea (ROU)
- 2005:
Ilya Ilyin (KAZ)
- 2006:
Andrei Rybakou (BLR)
- 2007:
Andrei Rybakou (BLR)
- 2009:
Lu Yong (CHN)
- 2010:
Adrian Zieliński (POL)
- 2011:
Kianoush Rostami (IRI)
- 2013:
Apti Aukhadov (RUS)
- 2014:
Kianoush Rostami (IRI)
- 2015:
Artem Okulov (RUS)
- 2017:
Arley Méndez (CHI)
- 2018:
Artem Okulov (RUS)
- 2019:
Hakob Mkrtchyan (ARM)
- 2021:
Yu Dong-ju (KOR)
- 2022:
Keydomar Vallenilla (VEN)
- 2023:
Mirmostafa Javadi (IRI)
- 82.5 kg (1920–1991)
- 83 kg (1993–1997)
- 85 kg (1998–2017)
- 89 kg (2018–)