RODRIGUEZ MITJAN Marina de la Cari.

Date of Birth: 2 Mar 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Place of birth: MARIANAO

Birth Country:

Cuba

Place of residence : HAVANA

Residence Country:

Cuba

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Weightlifting	Women's 64kg	8

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo International Forum	Women's 64kg Group A	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	63kg - Total
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	8th (215)

World Championships

Year	Location	63kg - Total	63kg - Snatch	63kg - C&J	64kg - Total	64kg - Snatch	64kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	-	-	-	(---)	(---)	11th (122)
2015	Houston, TX, USA	22nd (201)	22nd (88)	18th (113)	-	-	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	64kg - Total
2019	Lima, PER	5th (222)

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	63kg - Total	63kg - Snatch	63kg - C&J	64kg - Total	64kg - Snatch	64kg - C&J
2020	Santo Domingo, DOM	-	-	-	6th (219)	7th (95)	4th (124)
2019	Guatemala City, GUA	-	-	-	5th (220)	6th (96)	5th (124)
2018	Santo Domingo, DOM	3rd (223)	2nd (98)	2nd (125)	-	-	-

Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified

Dancing, listening to music, watching films. (rudagt.org, 04 Feb 2021; Facebook profile, 21 Mar 2021)

Occupation:

Physical Education - UCCFD Manuel Fajardo, Havana, CUB

Languages spoken:

Felix Machin [national], CUB; Yoani Giniebra [national], CUB

She began weightlifting at age 15 in Havana, Cuba. (granma.cu, 07 Jul 2016)

She used to do athletics until she went to a weightlifting test at school in Havana, Cuba. (trabajadores.cu, 17 Mar 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (granma.cu, 17 Jun 2020)

She trains six days a week. (rudagt.org, 04 Feb 2021)

Winning gold in the 63kg category clean and jerk lift at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia. (rudagt.org, 04 Feb 2021)

Coach Adan Rosales. "He taught me the secrets of the sport and my results nowadays are thanks to what he did for me." (granma.cu, 17 Jun 2020)

She wears a blue headband with a ribbon and paints her nails blue when she competes. "It is my favourite colour, and this ritual gives me luck. Some time ago I changed my headband for a white one, but it did not give me the same effect, so I returned to blue." (rudagt.org, 04 Feb 2021)

Philosophy:

"Weaknesses are psychological, the success you can achieve is in your head. I have learned that to lift the bar, you cannot think of anything that will weaken you, you always have to focus on positive things." (granma.cu, 17 Jun 2020)

In 2017 she was named Best Female Weightlifter by the Cuban Weightlifting Federation. (cibercuba.com, 18 Dec 2017)

General Interest

General
NEW WEIGHT CLASS
She thinks it will be easier for her to adapt to the new 64kg category, introduced in 2018 by the International Weightlifting Federation, having previously competed at 63kg. "It favours me. I gain strength to lift more in the clean and jerk, as I usually train two or three kilos above. That means assimilating training volumes better, and when I reach the exact [body] weight I feel much more agile and quick to start the clean." (cubasi.cu, 23 Dec 2018)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
In September 2020 she was appointed to the International Weightlifting Federation's interim Athletes' Commission until after the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (iwf.net, 25 May 2021; weightliftinghouse.com, 03 Sep 2020)

Milestones

She became the first female Cuban weightlifter to win a medal at the Pan American Games when she claimed silver in the 63kg category at the 2015 Games in Toronto, ON, Canada. A year later she became the first female Cuban weightlifter to compete at the Olympic Games when she took part in the 63kg category at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 09 Oct 2018; cubasi.cu, 14 Jul 2016; oncubamagazine.com, 17 Jul 2016; diariodecuba.com, 10 Aug 2016)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011215364607

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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