# Neisi Dajomes

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, who is the 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, a 6-time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and a 3-time Junior World Champion. As of 2024, she is the only female Ecuadorian athlete to win multiple Olympic medals. She competed in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. She is the older sister of the 2023 Pan American champion and Olympic medalist weightlifter Angie Palacios.

## Career

Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh overall.
She became junior world champion in 2017 in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in 2018. She won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.
In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in the 76 kg division. In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led Aremi Fuentes by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal.
Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition. She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia. She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.
Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called Shell: Land of Champions.
In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called Neisi: The Power of a Dream. It is expected to be released in November 2023.
On 6 June 2024, the Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee, named her and the ecuadorian olympic walker Brian Pintado as the official flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, however was the dressage rider Julio Mendoza Loor, who was the partner in carry the flag in the opening ceremony, replacing to Pintado. In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81 kg event. She was leading after the Snatch with a 122 kg lift and went down to the third place after the Clean & Jerk with a total of 267 kg.

## Achievements

| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank |
| Year | Venue | Weight | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Olympic Games |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 69 kg | 100 | 104 | 107 | — | 130 | 135 | 135 | — | 237 | 7 |
| 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | 76 kg | 111 | 115 | 118 | — | 135 | 140 | 145 | — | 263 | |
| 2024 | Paris, France | 81 kg | 118 | 118 | 122 | — | 145 | 145 | 151 | — | 267 | |
| World Championships |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Houston, United States | 69 kg | 98 | 102 | 103 | 9 | 125 | 130 | 132 | 10 | 233 | 10 |
| 2017 | Anaheim, United States | 75 kg | 103 | 106 | 108 | | 128 | 132 | 135 | | 240 | |
| 2018 | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 76 kg | 110 | 115 | 117 | | 137 | 142 | 146 | 4 | 259 | |
| 2019 | Pattaya, Thailand | 76 kg | 110 | 115 | 116 | | 135 | 139 | 139 | 4 | 245 | |
| 2022 | Bogotá, Colombia | 81 kg | 116 | 116 | 117 | 4 | 141 | 145 | 146 | 5 | 258 | 5 |
| 2023 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 81 kg | 115 | 118 | 120 | | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| IWF World Cup |||||||||||||
| 2024 | Phuket, Thailand | 81 kg | 118 | 121 | 123 | | 143 | 146 | — | | 269 | |
| Pan American Games |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Toronto, Canada | 69 kg | 98 | 98 | 100 | — | 121 | 123 | 125 | — | 225 | |
| 2019 | Lima, Peru | 76 kg | 109 | 112 | 115 | — | 135 | 135 | 140 | — | 255 | |
| Pan American Championships |||||||||||||
| 2017 | Miami, United States | 75 kg | 103 | 107 | 110 | | 128 | 131 | 140 | | 241 | |
| 2018 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 75 kg | 107 | 111 | 114 | | 132 | 137 | 140 | | 248 | |
| 2019 | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 76 kg | 104 | 108 | 109 | | 131 | 136 | — | | 245 | |
| 2022 | Bogotá, Colombia | 81 kg | 113 | 117 | 120 | | 138 | 143 | 143 | | 263 | |
| 2023 | Bariloche, Argentina | 81 kg | 106 | 111 | 115 | | 136 | 141 | 145 | | 256 | |
| 2024 | Caracas, Venezuela | 81 kg | 115 | 118 | 121 | | 141 | 141 | 146 | | 262 | |
| Junior World Championships |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Tbilisi, Georgia | 69 kg | 99 | 103 | 105 | | 123 | 125 | — | | 230 | |
| 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 75 kg | 103 | 106 | 108 | | 128 | 134 | 134 | | 242 | |
| 2018 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 75 kg | 105 | 110 | 115 | | 128 | 134 | 140 | | 255 | |