{"id":107028,"date":"2017-12-06T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=107028"},"modified":"2017-12-06T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:20:59","slug":"crismery-santana-wins-silver-and-two-bronze-in-world-weightlifting-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/12\/06\/crismery-santana-wins-silver-and-two-bronze-in-world-weightlifting-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Crismery Santana wins silver and two bronze in World Weightlifting Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107030\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107030\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Crismery-antana-300x208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silver medalist Crismery Santana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what is described as the best performance by a Dominican weightlifter ever in a world championship, Crismery Santana won a silver and two bronze in the 90 kg category in the World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, California, from 28 November to 6 December 2017. For the silver medal, she lifted 113 kilos.<\/p>\n<p>Santana claimed a medal in all three events in which she competed. She was third in Total and Clean &amp; Jerk, second in Snatch. She became the first medalist from the Dominican Republic since Yuderqui Contreras, who had finished second in the Snatch in the women&#8217;s 53kg category at the 2011 world championships. \u00b7<\/p>\n<p>Santana is now the first athlete (men\/women) from the Dominican Republic with three medals at a single world championships. She was the fourth woman at these world championships with a medal in all three events of a single weight class without winning a world title, alongside Kristina Shermetova (TKM, 53kg), Lina Rivas (COL, 63kg), Martha Rogers (USA, 69kg) and Neisy Dajomes (ECU, 75kg).<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 she had won bronze when the event was held in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Santana is a native of Hato Mayor and a resident in San Pedro de Macoris.<\/p>\n<p>6 December 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is described as the best performance by a Dominican weightlifter ever in a world championship, Crismery Santana won a silver and two bronze in the 90 kg category in the World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, California, from 28 November to 6 December 2017. For the silver medal, she lifted 113 kilos. Santana &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/12\/06\/crismery-santana-wins-silver-and-two-bronze-in-world-weightlifting-championships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}