TERAN VELAZQUEZ Oriana del Carmen

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
12	-45 kg	2019	Nur-Sultan, KAZ	70.0

Dancing, listening to music. (Athlete, 01 Jun 2019; paralympic.org, 13 Mar 2019)

Athlete

Portuguese, Spanish

Yvan Sequera; Jorge Veliz

She has competed in karate at national level in Venezuela. (Athlete, 01 Jun 2019)

She began powerlifting in 2015 in Venezuela. (Athlete, 05 Apr 2017)

She was practising karate and kenpo when she was invited to try powerlifting by coach Antonio Delgado. He had seen her in a photograph on social media. (ciudadccs.info, 20 Sep 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Outside of sport she wants to study journalism. (ciudadccs.info, 20 Sep 2018; paralympic.org, 13 Mar 2019)

She trains at the National Sports Institute [IND] in Caracas, Venezuela. (ciudadccs.info, 20 Sep 2018)

Competing at the 2017 Youth Parapan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Athlete, 01 Jun 2019)

Mexican Para powerlifter Amalia Perez. (Athlete, 01 Jun 2019)

Coach Antonio Delgado, and her mother. (Athlete, 05 Apr 2017)

"Nothing is impossible to a determined mind." (Athlete, 01 Jun 2019)

She received the 2018 Francisco de Miranda Order [third class] from the Venezuelan government. (presidencia.gob.ve, 07 Jan 2019)