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After Belarusians Maryna Shkermankova and Dzina Sazanavets were disqualified for doping, news was confirmed this Wednesday that Romanian Roxana Cocos also tested positive for stanlozonol, leaving Chocoana third place.
2020 had prepared something big and this Wednesday 25 November it became official. Weightlifter Chocoan Ubaldina Valoyes has received excellent news from the International Olympic Committee and the International Weightlifting Federation which will receive the 29th Olympic medal in the history of Colombia.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Valoyes lifted 246 kilograms (111 in the snatch and 135 in the clean and jerk) to finish in sixth box and get his third Olympic diploma, after those obtained in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, however, that sixth place today it has become the third place and makes it worthy of the bronze medal.
It was in the 69 kilogram division that Ubaldina celebrated the Olympic medal today. The story began a few years ago when the positive doping of the Belarusian Maryna Shkermankova was confirmed; her compatriot Dzina Sazanavets, who left her in fourth place.
And now it has been confirmed the positive of the Romanian Roxana Cocos, silver medal on that occasion, who found herself having the substance stanlozonol, so the Kazakh Anna Nurmukhambetova has risen from third to second place, while Ubaldina Valoyes is now third and worthy of the bronze medal.
Something similar happened with the weightlifter from Valle del Cauca Leidy Solís, who, after analyzing the frozen samples of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was awarded the bronze medal in the 69 kg category, after the positive of Ukrainian Natalia Davidova.
Ubaldina is 38 years old and today celebrates the most important milestone of her career and a historic event for Colombian sport, the 29th medal in history, which leaves Colombia with five golds, nine silver and now 15 bronze.
La Chocoana is an emblem of the Olympic sport of Colombia, because to this Olympic medal it adds three Olympic diplomas in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016, as well as four gold medals at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo 2003, Rio 2007, Guadalajara 2011 and Toronto 2015.
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It was at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, when the weights were in one of their best moments with the recent gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with María Isabel Urrutia, and the presence of exceptional women like Mabel Mosquera and Tulia Ángela Medina, who were already finishing their successful sports career and the sport needed a generational change.
It was at that moment that a 21-year-old girl appeared, who on August 14, 2003 took the place of Urrutia, Mosquera and Medina, because that day she won the gold medal in the 63 kilogram division of the Pan American Games. Santo Domingo 2003, to start a successful path that today is awarded an Olympic medal.
With information from COC Press *
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