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Loredana Toma

Loredana Toma

Romanian weightlifter (born 1995)

Loredana Elena Toma (born 10 May 1995) is a Romanian weightlifter,[2] two time World Champion and four time European Champion competing in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[3] She now competes at the 71kg category. In 2014 she tested positive for Stanozolol and was banned for two years by the International Weightlifting Federation.[4]

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Career

World Championships

After winning the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships she competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in the 63 kg division. She won gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and total, finishing with a total of 237 kg, a full 12 kg over the silver medalist Lina Rivas.[5] She won the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in the 71kg division, snatching a new world record of 119kg and clean and jerking 137kg for a total of 256kg.[6]

European Championships

After winning two silver medals in the 58 kg categories at the 2013 and 2014 European Weightlifting Championships she moved up weight classes to the 63 kg in 2017. At the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships she won gold medals in all lifts to win her first European Championship.

In 2018, fresh off of a World Championships gold medal, she competed at the 2018 European Weightlifting Championships[7] in her home country of Romania. She again won gold medals in all lifts, with her final total of 236 kg being 17 kg over the silver medalist Irina Lepșa, and 6 kg over the gold medallist of the next highest (69 kg) category.[8]

Major results

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References

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    "Loredana Elena Toma". IWF.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
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    "Loredana Elena Toma". The-Sports.org. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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    "PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 64 kg" (PDF). Ashgabat2018.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
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    "Sanctions". IWF.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
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    "European Gold for TOMA". IWF.net. International Weightlifting Federation. 2 December 2017. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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    Oliver, Brian (12 December 2022). "Toma world record and landmark gold for Bahrain at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
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    "European Weightlifting Championships 2018: Ones to watch". IWF.net. International Weightlifting Federation. 25 March 2018. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  8. [8]
    "2018 European Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). EWFed.com. European Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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