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Birth name | Leydi Yesenia Solís Arboleda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
February 17, 1990 (age 27) Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, Colombia |
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Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leydi Yesenia Solís Arboleda (born February 17, 1990 in Tuluá, Valle del Cauca) is a female weightlifter from Colombia. She won a gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games for her native South American country, and carried the flag at the opening ceremony. Solís represented Colombia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China, finishing in fourth place in her weight division. She won the – 69 kg gold medal in snatch and clean & jerk during the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival.