You could see it coming… The result of Saturday, May 7, beautiful walls in it World Junior Weightlifting it was advertised. Behind the world vice championship in Uzbekistan, in 2017, where she won two silver medals and one bronze, the 19-year-old athlete, federated by Guayas, had his eyes on Greece. And she did not fail.
He shone in his division of the 76 kilograms. The Ecuadorian lifted 104 kilograms in the snatch, 131 kg in the clean and jerk, for a total of 235 kg. She surpassed the Latvian by 13 kilos Daniela Ivanova (silver) and Thai Duangkamo Khongthong (bronze), which again put the name of the country at the top of world weightlifting.
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FROM GYMNASTICS TO WEIGHTS
But Bella’s history with the sport that today makes her a favorite for 2024 Paris Olympicstogether with the already consecrated Ecuadorian medalists Neisi Dajomes y Tamara Salazar, is special. His was the olympic gymnasticsUntil, due to fate, everything took a 180 degree turn.
At the age of 13, Paredes was forced to make the decision to leave the activity that she describes as full of “lights, dance and delicacy”, for one that at first she did not like and considered “rough”: the dumbbells.
Everything happened for one injury that the athlete, born in Babahoyo, but who represents Guayas, suffered; hence her aunt and coach Marlene Arreaga He gave her a choice: ‘do you prefer to practice judo or weights?’, to which she replied without hesitation: ‘judo!’, and the answer she received was even more surprising from one of her sources of inspiration: ‘perfect, then you’re going to do weights’.
Watch the best Snatch and C&J of the Women’s 76KG session during the 2022 IWF Junior World Championships in Greece. Bella Paredes lifted a 104KG Snatch and a 131KG C&J. Congratulations! pic.twitter.com/DhiuB3gj6t
— IWF (@iwfnet) May 7, 2022
That was how Paredes became one of the tricolor jewelry In the world of weightlifting, it is not in vain that he has already accumulated multiple medals in South Americans, gold in junior Pan Americans, as well as the junior world vice-championship in Uzbekistan in 2017.
Remember that from the first day they saw the conditions to practice that discipline. “They told me that I was fine, that my extremities were ideal, that it was strongplus he had the weapons to lift weights, “said Bella.
To this day, Paredes is the weightlifting athlete with the best projection, quite apart from those already consecrated as Neisi Dajomes, Tamara Salazar and the same Angie Palacios.
“I want to go very far. I know that I can still give much more, I have a whole carrera ahead, since we are just starting; however that requires much more effort and I’m here to give it”, he said with conviction.
