SALAZAR ARCE Tamara Yajaira

World Championships - Part one

Year	Location	75kg - Total	75kg - Snatch	75kg - C&J	90kg	90kg - Snatch	90kg - Clean & Jerk	81kg - Total	81kg - Snatch	81kg - C&J	87kg - Total	87kg - Snatch	87kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3rd (252)	4th (108)	3rd (144)
2018	Ashgabat, TKM	-	-	-	-	-	-	3rd (242)	5th (105)	2nd (137)	-	-	-
2017	Anaheim, CA, USA	-	-	-	6th (234)	8th (101)	6th (133)	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Houston, TX, USA	21st (213)	27th (90)	14th (123)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	87kg - Total
2019	Lima, PER	3rd (256)

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	75kg - Total	75kg - Snatch	75kg - C&J	87kg - Total	87kg - Snatch	87kg - C&J
2020	Santo Domingo, DOM	-	-	-	2nd (256)	2nd (110)	1st (146)
2019	Guatemala City, GUA	-	-	-	3rd (243)	4th (105)	3rd (138)
2018	Santo Domingo, DOM	4th (229)	7th (98)	3rd (131)	-	-	-
2017	Miami, FL, USA	5th (219)	7th (97)	5th (122)	-	-	-

Junior World Championships

Year	Location	75kg - Total	75kg - Snatch	75kg - C&J
2017	Tokyo, JPN	4th (220)	5th (96)	3rd (124)

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

La Yaji (Facebook profile, 08 Mar 2020)

Athlete

Spanish

Hugo Quelal [national], CUB

Her sister Mayra has competed in weightlifting at national level in Ecuador and also served as a coach. (eltelegrafo.com.ec, 16 Jan 2020)

She took up weightlifting in 2010 in Pusir Grande, Ecuador. (eltelegrafo.com.ec, 16 Jan 2020; lahora.com.ec, 05 Sep 2011)

She initially took part in athletics, but was intrigued by weightlifting as her sister Mayra practised the sport and decided to try it. Coach Julio Yaque noticed her potential and invited her to train. (lahora.com.ec, 05 Sep 2011; lahora.com.ec, 15 Jan 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (estadiodeportivo.com, 11 Mar 2021)

Winning the bronze medal in the 87kg category at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, and winning bronze in the 87kg category clean and jerk, and combined total score at the 2019 World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. (Ecuavisa YouTube Channel, 22 Nov 2020)

Her mother. (Ecuavisa YouTube Channel, 22 Nov 2020)

"One of my motivations to do weightlifting was to show that women are strong and can perform any activity, but I believe that every elite athlete has to sacrifice to achieve their goals, it is difficult but not impossible." (efe.com, 04 Jul 2020)

She was Ecuador's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (lima2019.pe, 27 Jul 2019)

In 2018 she was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee. (coe.org.ec, 20 Dec 2018)