Arley Méndez
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| Birth name | Arley Méndez Perez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Chile |
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| Born | December 31, 1993 San Cristóbal, Cuba |
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| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81.00 kg (179 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Chile |
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | –81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Giorgi Panchev[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Arley Méndez Perez (born 31 December 1993) is a Chilean weightlifter, World Champion and two time Pan American Champion competing in the 85 kg category until 2018 and 89 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3]
Career
He competed for Chile at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships winning the gold medal in all three categories in the –85 kg division, ahead of the Olympic champion and heavy favorite Kianoush Rostami.[4][5]
In 2018, he competed in the newly created 89 kg category at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat winning a gold medal in the Snatch portion of the competition.[6]
He represented Chile at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[7]
In 2024, he won the silver medal in the men's 89 kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.
Major results
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
| 2021 |  Tokyo, Japan |
81 kg | 160 | 8 | — | — | — | |||||
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| 2017 |  Anaheim, United States |
85 kg | 163 | 171 | 175 |  |
203 | |
378 | |
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| 2018 |  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
89 kg | 160 | 169 | |
190 | 200 | 7 | 369 | 5 | ||
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- Living people
- 1993 births
- Chilean male weightlifters
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Naturalized citizens of Chile
- Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Chile
- 21st-century Chilean people
- Sportspeople from Artemisa Province
- Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
