USA Weightlifting Confirms Athletes To Participate In 2019 Pan American Games

The Pan American Games will take place in Lima Peru from July 26th-August 11th and we now know the names of the 10 athletes (Four men and six women) who were chosen to compete.

Now, this competition is a silver-level qualifying event for the 2020 Tokyo Games and will carry a lot of weight going in.

Here are the athletes who have already competed in the international competition previously, but now they’ll get the chance to compete once again at the 2019 Pan American Games…

Men

Women

Both the men’s and women’s teams won the Pan American Championships in Guatemala last month and we hope Peru will be an extension of that seeing as Team USA won an astounding  43 medals.

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USA Weightlifting’s director of sports performance and coaching education made a statement regarding the elite level of the Team USA athletes…

“This is the new normal – we come in and we’re fierce. We’re professional, we support each other and we win championships”.

We wish Team USA all the best for the coming Pan American Games and let’s hope for more record performances!