Yenny Sinisterra

Yenny Sinisterra (born 4 May 2000)[1] is a Colombian weightlifter. In 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.[2] A month earlier, at the 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Suva, Fiji, she won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event.[1]

Yenny Sinisterra
Personal information
Born (2000-05-04) 4 May 2000
Sport
CountryColombia
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing  Colombia
Pan American Games
2019 Lima 55 kg
South American Games
2018 Cochabamba 53 kg
Bolivarian Games
2017 Santa Marta 53 kg

In 2017, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2017 Bolivarian Games held in Santa Marta, Colombia.[3] In that same year, she also competed in the women's 53 kg event at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, United States. The following year, she won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2018 South American Games held in Cochabamba, Bolivia.[4] She also competed in the women's 55 kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

In 2019, she competed in the women's 55 kg event at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships held in Pattaya, Thailand. She finished in 5th place.

In February 2020, she was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroid boldenone.[5] As of December 2020, her case is being contested at the Court of Arbitration for Sport as she may have ingested it after eating tainted meat and in Colombia boldenone is used for fattening cattle.[6]

References
  1. "2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships" (PDF). IWF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2019 Pan American Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. "2017 Bolivarian Games". IWF. Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. "2018 South American Games". IWF. Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  5. Oliver, Brian (22 December 2020). "Colombia faces outright ban from Tokyo 2020 weightlifting after trio suspended". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  6. Oliver, Brian (30 December 2020). "Exclusive: Colombian weightlifting chief vows "we will compete in Tokyo – we do not support cheating"". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.


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