Lydia Valentín
{{Short description|Spanish weightlifter (born 1985)}}
{{family name hatnote|Valentín|Pérez|lang=Spanish}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Lydia Valentín
| image = Lidia Valentín 2008.jpg
| image_size = 275px
| caption = Valentín in 2008
| full_name = Lydia Valentín Pérez
| nationality = Spanish
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|2|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Ponferrada, Spain
| height = 1.69 m
| weight = 78.80 kg
| website = {{URL|lydiavalentin.com|LydiaValentin.com}}
| country = Spain
| sport = Weightlifting
| event = –81 kg
| club = Cas-Leonesa, CLE
| coach = Matías Fernández
| yearsactive = 2002–2023
| pb = {{unbulleted list|Snatch: 124 kg (2014, Almaty)|Clean & Jerk: 147 kg (2014, Tel Aviv)|Total: 268 kg (2014, Tel Aviv)}}
| show-medals = no
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Women's weightlifting}}
{{MedalCountry|{{ESP}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{Medal|Gold|2012 London|–75 kg}}
{{Medal|Silver|2008 Beijing|–75 kg}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2016 Rio de Janeiro|–75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Anaheim|–75 kg}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Ashgabat|–81 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Pattaya|–81 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2013 Wrocław|–75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Tel Aviv|–75 kg}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Tbilisi|–75 kg}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Split|–75 kg}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Bucharest|–75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2008 Lignano|–75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2009 Bucharest|–75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2012 Antalya|–75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2013 Tirana|–75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Batumi|–76 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2007 Strasbourg|–75 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2010 Minsk|–75 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2011 Kazan|–75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}
{{MedalGold|2013 Mersin|-75kg}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Tarragona|-75 kg}}
}}
Lydia Valentín Pérez{{cite web |title=Lydia Valentín - Official Website |url=https://www.lydiavalentin.com/gb/ |website=LydiaValentin.com |access-date=7 July 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622111517/https://www.lydiavalentin.com/gb/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Lydia Valentín Pérez |url=https://web.coe.es/COE/bd_perso.nsf/2012FDeportistaN3?OpenForm&query=4755*&DEPORTISTA=3421* |website=COE.es |language=es |publisher=Comité Olímpico Español |access-date=7 July 2022 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707080550/https://web.coe.es/COE/bd_perso.nsf/2012FDeportistaN3?OpenForm=&query=4755%2A&DEPORTISTA=3421%2A |url-status=live }} (born 10 February 1985) is a Spanish retired{{cite web |title=La triple medallista olímpica de halterofilia Lydia Valentín anunciará el jueves su retirada |url=https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/5172789/0/triple-medallista-olimpica-halterofilia-lydia-valentin-anunciara-jueves-su-retirada/ |publisher=20 minutos |access-date=17 September 2023 |date=15 September 2023 |lang=es }} weightlifter, Olympic Champion, 2 time World Champion and 4 time European Champion competing in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.{{cite web |url=http://ashgabat2018.com/img/startlistv2/W81A.pdf |title=PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 81 kg |website=Ashgabat2018.com |access-date=14 December 2018 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215065812/http://ashgabat2018.com/img/startlistv2/W81A.pdf |url-status=live }} Lydia has won three Olympic medals (Silver in 2008, Gold in 2012 and Bronze in 2016), two World Weightlifting Championships (2017 and 2018), as well as four European Weightlifting Championships.{{cite web |url=http://www.iwf.net/2017/12/04/valentin-perez-lidia-esp-crowned-world-champion/ |title=VALENTIN PEREZ Lydia (ESP) crowned World Champion |website=IWF.net |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |date=4 December 2017 |access-date=4 December 2017 |archive-date=5 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205093041/http://www.iwf.net/2017/12/04/valentin-perez-lidia-esp-crowned-world-champion/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=446711 |title=Lidia, I de España y III de Europa |language=Spanish |publisher=Diario de León |date=12 April 2009 |access-date=18 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145730/http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=446711 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}{{cite news |url=http://www.marca.com/2009/04/10/mas_deportes/otros_deportes/1239389802.html |title=Lidia Valentín logra el bronce en el Europeo de 75 kilos |language=Spanish |publisher=Marca |date=10 April 2009 |access-date=18 April 2009 |archive-date=14 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414055652/http://www.marca.com/2009/04/10/mas_deportes/otros_deportes/1239389802.html |url-status=live }}
Career
At the 2007 World Championships, she ranked sixth in the 75 kg category with a total of 240 kg.
At the 2013 World Championships, she won bronze in the snatch and placed fourth in the total, being promoted to silver and bronze respectively when Olga Zubova was disqualified for failing a doping test.{{cite web |url=http://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctioned-athletes/ |title=Sanctioned athletes |website=IWF.net |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=2 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327032059/http://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctioned-athletes/ |archivedate=27 March 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=253 |title=2013 IWF World Championships |website=IWF.net |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=18 April 2014 |archive-date=22 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322094144/http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=253 |url-status=live }} In 2017, Lydia won the World Weightlifting Championship held in Anaheim, United States.
At the European Championships, she won four gold medals for the total in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 three silver medals (in 2008, 2012 and 2013) and three bronze medals (in 2007, 2009 and 2011), with three gold and four silver medals in the snatch, and two gold, one silver and five bronze medals in the clean and jerk.{{cite web |title=Valentin Lidia (ESP) |website=iat.uni-leipzig.de |language=de |publisher=IAT Weightlifting Database |url=http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbgwh/daten.php?spid=47F1ACDC276F4C84827C1C5C07C19AC5 |access-date=18 April 2009 |archive-date=27 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527033740/http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbgwh/daten.php?spid=47F1ACDC276F4C84827C1C5C07C19AC5 |url-status=live }}
=Olympics=
In the 75 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Valentín finished in fifth place with a 250 kg total.{{cite news |url=http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20080815/53520749236.html |title=Diploma olímpico para la haltera Lidia Valentín |language=Spanish |publisher=La Vanguardia |date=15 August 2008 |access-date=18 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007083518/http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h/20080815/53520749236.html |archive-date=7 October 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}} In 2016, retests of samples from the 75 kg category at the 2008 Olympics returned positive results for the original gold medalist Cao Lei{{cite web |url=https://www.iwf.net/2016/08/24/public-disclosures-5/ |title=IWF Public Disclosure |website=IWF.net |date=24 August 2016 |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703030215/http://www.iwf.net/2016/08/24/public-disclosures-5/ |url-status=live }} and bronze medalist Nadezhda Evstyukhina.{{cite web |url=https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160607/sports/306079887 |title=2 Russian Olympic weightlifting medalists fail doping tests |work=Dailyherald |date=7 June 2016 |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043311/https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160607/sports/306079887 |url-status=live }} Both were disqualified, and Valentín was awarded the silver medal.{{cite web |url=https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports/2016/08/24/57bd9bc6468aebc1748b45ac.html |title=Valentin awarded Beijing 2008 silver medal after new doping case |work=Marca |date=24 August 2016 |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111508/https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports/2016/08/24/57bd9bc6468aebc1748b45ac.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.iwf.net/2018/01/22/lydia-valentin-silver-medal/ |title=Lydia Valentín Finally Receives Her Olympic Silver Medal |website=IWF.net |date=22 January 2018 |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043426/https://www.iwf.net/2018/01/22/lydia-valentin-silver-medal/ |url-status=live }}
In 2012, Valentín competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 75 kg category, and finished in fourth place with a 265 kg total, behind the eight new Olympic Records set by Svetlana Podobedova and Natalia Zabolotnaya. In 2016, during retests, all three original medalists returned positive results, thus disqualifying them.{{cite news |url=http://www.iwf.net/2018/02/06/2017-lifter-year-lydia-valentin/ |title=2017 Lifter of the Year Lydia Valentin |newspaper=International Weightlifting Federation |date=6 February 2018 |access-date=6 February 2018 |archive-date=10 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210011615/http://www.iwf.net/2018/02/06/2017-lifter-year-lydia-valentin/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sport-doping-weightlifting-valentin-idUSKCN1081K0 |title=Weightlifting: Valentin eyes London gold after rivals fail retests |work=Reuters |date=28 July 2016 |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111345/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sport-doping-weightlifting-valentin-idUSKCN1081K0 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/a3d07a0dac4a4d74948b504725727fe1 |title=3 weightlifters stripped of Olympic golds in doping cases |work=Associated Press |date=27 October 2016 |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043403/https://apnews.com/a3d07a0dac4a4d74948b504725727fe1 |url-status=live }} Valentín was declared the Olympic Champion, and in March 2019, she was awarded her gold medal.{{cite web |url=https://www.iwf.net/2019/03/05/lidia-valentin-recieved-olympic-gold-medal/ |title=Lidia Valentin {{sic|recie|ved|nolink=y}} her Olympic gold medal |website=IWF.net |date=5 March 2019 |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=5 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305125009/https://www.iwf.net/2019/03/05/lidia-valentin-recieved-olympic-gold-medal/ |url-status=live }}
In 2016, while waiting for confirmation of these medals, Valentín had competed in the 2016 Olympics, where she lifted a total of 257 kg and won the bronze medal. It was, at the time, Spain's first medal ever in weightlifting (retrospectively third).{{citation |url=http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2016/08/12/actualidad/1471032061_366774.html |title=Lydia Valentín se lleva la medalla de bronce en halterofilia |newspaper=El País |date=13 August 2016 |language=es |access-date=7 September 2016 |archive-date=10 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910222809/http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2016/08/12/actualidad/1471032061_366774.html |url-status=live |last1=Giovio |first1=Eleonora }}{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-weightlifting-women-75kg/gold-at-last-for-north-korea-rim-cheers-her-beloved-leader-idUSKCN10N2MX |title=Gold at last for North Korea, Rim cheers her 'beloved Leader' |work=Reuters |date=12 August 2016 |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-date=12 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212035158/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-weightlifting-women-75kg/gold-at-last-for-north-korea-rim-cheers-her-beloved-leader-idUSKCN10N2MX |url-status=live }}
In 2021, she competed in the women's 87 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.{{Cite web |title=Women's 87 kg Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WLF/OG2020-_WLF_C73_WLFW87KG--------------FNL---------.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802130745/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WLF/OG2020-_WLF_C73_WLFW87KG--------------FNL---------.pdf |archive-date=2 August 2021 |access-date=15 August 2021 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games}}
Major results
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan=2 width=40 | Year ! rowspan=2 width=250 | Venue ! rowspan=2 width=60 | Weight ! colspan=4 | Snatch (kg) ! colspan=4 | Clean & Jerk (kg) ! rowspan=2 width=40 | Total ! rowspan=2 width=40 | Rank | ||||||||||||
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! width=40 | 2 ! width=40 | 3 ! width=40 | Rank ! width=40 | 1 ! width=40 | 2 ! width=40 | 3 ! width=40 | Rank | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| colspan=13 | Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | align=left | {{flag icon|CHN}} Beijing, China | 75 kg | 110 | 115 | 2 | 130 | 135 | 3 | 250 | {{silver2}} | ||
| 2012 | align=left | {{flag icon|GBR}} London, United Kingdom | 75 kg | 115 | 120 | 1 | 140 | 145 | 1 | 265 | {{gold1}} | ||
| 2016 | align=left | {{flag icon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 75 kg | 112 | 116 | 2 | 135 | 138 | 141 | 3 | 257 | {{bronze3}} | |
| 2020 | align=left | {{flag icon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan | 87 kg | 100 | 103 | 10 | 122 | – | – | 11 | 225 | 10 | |
| colspan=13 | World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | align=left | {{flag icon|POL}} Warsaw, Poland | 63 kg | – | 92.5 | 13 | – | – | |||||
| 2005 | align=left | {{flag icon|QAT}} Doha, Qatar | 75 kg | 100 | 105 | 7 | 115 | 13 | 220 | 11 | |||
| 2006 | align=left | {{flag icon|DOM}} Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 75 kg | 100 | 13 | – | – | – | |||||
| 2007 | align=left | {{flag icon|THA}} Chiang Mai, Thailand | 75 kg | 105 | 110 | 5 | 125 | 130 | 5 | 240 | 6 | ||
| 2009 | align=left | {{flag icon|KOR|1997}} Goyang, South Korea | 75 kg | 112 | 4 | 130 | 9 | 242 | 6 | ||||
| 2010 | align=left | {{flag icon|TUR}} Antalya, Turkey | 75 kg | 112 | 6 | – | – | – | |||||
| 2011 | align=left | {{flag icon|FRA}} Paris, France | 75 kg | 112 | 117 | 120 | 4 | 133 | 138 | 7 | 258 | 5 | |
| 2013 | align=left | {{flag icon|POL}} Wrocław, Poland | 75 kg | 117 | 122 | {{silver2}} | 138 | {{bronze3}} | 260 | {{bronze3}} | |||
| 2014 | align=left | {{flag icon|KAZ}} Almaty, Kazakhstan | 75 kg | 120 | 124 | {{bronze3}} | 140 | 4 | 264 | 4 | |||
| 2015 | align=left | {{flag icon|USA}} Houston, United States | 75 kg | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2017 | align=left | {{flag icon|USA}} Anaheim, United States | 75 kg | 110 | 115 | 118 | {{gold1}} | 130 | 135 | 140 | {{gold1}} | 258 | {{gold1}} |
| 2018 | align=left | {{flag icon|TKM}} Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 81 kg | 108 | 110 | 113 | {{gold1}} | 130 | 136 | {{bronze3}} | 249 | {{gold1}} | |
| 2019 | align=left | {{flag icon|THA}} Pattaya, Thailand | 81 kg | 105 | 108 | 5 | 130 | 134 | 138 | {{bronze3}} | 246 | {{silver2}} | |
| colspan=13 | European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | align=left | {{flagicon|BUL}} Sofia, Bulgaria | 75 kg | 100 | 6 | 110 | 115 | 7 | 215 | 6 | |||
| 2006 | align=left | {{flagicon|POL}} Władysławowo, Poland | 75 kg | 103 | 5 | 118 | 122 | 7 | 225 | 7 | |||
| 2007 | align=left | {{flagicon|FRA}} Strasbourg, France | 75 kg | 105 | 110 | 115 | {{silver2}} | 125 | 130 | 132 | 4 | 247 | {{bronze3}} |
| 2008 | align=left | {{flagicon|ITA}} Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy | 75 kg | 110 | 115 | {{silver2}} | 130 | {{bronze3}} | 245 | {{silver2}} | |||
| 2009 | align=left | {{flagicon|ROM}} Bucharest, Romania | 75 kg | 112 | 117 | 120 | {{gold1}} | 132 | {{silver2}} | 252 | {{silver2}} | ||
| 2010 | align=left | {{flagicon|BLR}} Minsk, Belarus | 75 kg | 110 | 115 | {{bronze3}} | 132 | 137 | 140 | {{bronze3}} | 255 | {{bronze3}} | |
| 2011 | align=left | {{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia | 75 kg | 112 | 117 | 122 | {{bronze3}} | 132 | 142 | {{bronze3}} | 264 | {{bronze3}} | |
| 2012 | align=left | {{flagicon|TUR}} Antalya, Turkey | 75 kg | 112 | 117 | {{gold1}} | 135 | 143 | {{Silver2}} | 260 | {{silver2}} | ||
| 2013 | align=left | {{flagicon|ALB}} Tirana, Albania | 75 kg | 115 | 120 | {{silver2}} | 135 | 140 | {{Silver2}} | 260 | {{silver2}} | ||
| 2014 | align=left | {{flagicon|ISR}} Tel Aviv, Israel | 75 kg | 115 | 120 | 121 | {{gold1}} | 137 | 144 | 147 | {{gold1}} | 268 | {{gold1}} |
| 2015 | align=left | {{flagicon|GEO}} Tbilisi, Georgia | 75 kg | 112 | 118 | {{gold1}} | 135 | 141 | 145 | {{gold1}} | 263 | {{gold1}} | |
| 2017 | align=left | {{flagicon|CRO}} Split, Croatia | 75 kg | 112 | 115 | {{silver2}} | 132 | 137 | – | {{gold1}} | 252 | {{gold1}} | |
| 2018 | align=left | {{flagicon|ROU}} Bucharest, Romania | 75 kg | 107 | 112 | 115 | {{gold1}} | 130 | 135 | {{gold1}} | 250 | {{gold1}} | |
| 2019 | align=left | {{flagicon|GEO}} Batumi, Georgia | 76 kg | 105 | 108 | {{Gold1}} | 130 | 133 | {{silver2}} | 241 | {{silver2}} | ||
| colspan=13 | Mediterranean Games | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | align=left| {{flagicon|TUR}} Mersin, Turkey | 75 kg | 112 | 115 | 120 | {{Gold01}} | 135 | 140 | 145 | {{Gold01}} | 265 | – |
| 2018 | align=left| {{flagicon|ESP}} Tarragona, Spain | 75 kg | 105 | 110 | 112 | {{Gold01}} | 130 | 137| | ||||
| - | {{Gold01}} | 249 | – |
See also
References
External links
{{Commons category|Lydia Valentín}}
- {{IWF|829|Lidia Valentin Perez}}
- {{IWRP|9645|Lidia Valentin Perez}}
- {{COE profile|id1=4755*&DEPORTISTA=3421*|id2=A45439E7AA9798B8C1256FE900352AAF|name=Lydia Valentín Pérez}}
- {{Olympics.com|lidia-valentin-perez-1|Lidia Valentin Perez}}
- {{Olympedia|116290|Lydia Valentín}}
- {{Official website|https://www.lydiavalentin.com/|Lydia Valentín - Official Website}}
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