Irene Borrego

{{Short description|Mexican weightlifter (born 2001)}}

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{{Medal|Sport| Women's weightlifting }}

{{Medal|Country| {{Flagu|Mexico}} }}

{{Medal|Competition| World Championships }}

{{Medal|Bronze| 2023 Riyadh | 55 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| Junior Pan American Games }}

{{Medal|Silver| 2021 Cali–Valle | 55 kg }}

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Irene Esmeralda Borrego Palacios (born 3 November 2001){{Cite web |title=Women's 55 kg |url=https://www.calivalle2021.com/uploads/resultados/competencias/mujeres%2055%20kg.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220829112418/https://www.calivalle2021.com/uploads/resultados/competencias/mujeres%2055%20kg.pdf |archive-date=29 August 2022 |access-date=9 September 2023 |website=2021 Junior Pan American Games}} is a Mexican weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the women's 55{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Brian |date=6 September 2023 |title=Chinese Taipei takes gold at IWF World Championships after historic Refugee Team debut |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1140572/chen-guan-ling-wins-weightlifting-gold |access-date=9 September 2023}}{{Cite web |title=2023 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/09/2023_KSA_ResultsBook_.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230917164936/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/09/2023_KSA_ResultsBook_.pdf |archive-date=17 September 2023 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=International Weightlifting Federation}}

In 2021, Borrego won the silver medal in the women's 55{{nbsp}}kg event at the Junior Pan American Games held in Cali and Valle, Colombia. She won the gold medal in the women's 55{{nbsp}}kg Snatch event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.{{Cite web |title=2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://panampesas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RESULTBOOK.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730112107/https://panampesas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RESULTBOOK.pdf |archive-date=30 July 2022 |access-date=30 July 2022 |website=Federación Panamericana de Levantamiento de Pesas}} In that same year, she competed in the women's 55{{nbsp}}kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.{{Cite web |title=2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/12/Bogota-Results-Book.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217071304/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/12/Bogota-Results-Book.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2022 |access-date=17 December 2022 |website=IWF}}