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modalities index > weiGhtliFtinG > Jaqueline antonia Ferreira
jAqueline anTonIa FerreirA
duque de caxias, rJ
03/05/87
72kg
1,67m
main titles
Silver medalist at the Medellin
2010 • 14 th place at the Turkey
World Championship (10) • 1 st
place at the South American
Championship (09) • 3 rd place at
the Peru Pan American
Championship (08) • 4 th place at
the Rio 2007 Pan American Games
• 1 st place at the South American
Youth Championship
category
- 75kg
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She abandoned the heptathlon
events in athletics in order to face
the challenge of the bars,
following the invitation of a friend
who competed in weightlifting. At
the World Championship of 2010
she became the first Brazilian
woman weightlifter to reach the
mark of 100kg at the thrust. A
Physical Education graduate she
won the Brazil Olympic Prize in
2007 for her modality. She was 4th place at the Guatemala Pre-
Olympic Tournament.
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