Mexico City. A decade after participating in the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games, Mexican weightlifter Janeth Gómez consolidated the feat at a senior level with her qualification to Paris 2024, after securing tenth position in the ranking in the 59 kilogram category.
“I have many mixed emotions about obtaining the Olympic place, since it is what I have worked for not only this process, but since the previous one and since I started. From the day I decided to go to the Olympic Games, a desire to achieve it began. “I can’t explain everything I feel right now,” he said.
With 223 total kilograms registered and ninth place overall in her division, the Jalisco native appeared this day at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup, held in Phuket, Thailand, the last qualifier of the Olympic process; However, despite not achieving the desired performance, her performance throughout the entire process earned her a place at Paris 2024.
“It wasn’t a good competition at this event. I came to give everything, but it was not given to me; I thank God who kept me despite everything, because there were many rivals fighting to enter the ranking and I stayed in the top 10, so I am very grateful,” she considered.
Full of emotions for achieving her quota for Paris 2024, the runner-up of the San Salvador 2023 Central American Games recalled her experience as a youth Olympian 10 years ago.
“It gives me great pleasure to remember that 10 years ago I was a youth Olympian, the difference is that now I am more mature and have a little more experience. I continue to polish details, but the courage and desire will always be there; I love knowing that Paris awaits me and it gives me joy, because everything that one has to go through and have to do to be able to get there is worth it,” she said. (With information from Conade).
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– 2024-04-05 03:44:37
