Wanda Rijo
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| National team | Dominican Republic |
| Born | November 26, 1979 |
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
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Wanda Rijo Contreras (born November 26, 1979) is a female former weightlifter from the Dominican Republic. She twice competed at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Rijo won the only gold medal for the Dominican Republic at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A year later she carried the flag for her native country at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
She is currently a pastor at Monte de Dios, La Romana.[1] She was inducted to the Dominican Republic Hall of Fame in 2016.[2]
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- Weightlifters at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Weightlifters at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for the Dominican Republic
- Dominican Republic female weightlifters
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the Dominican Republic
- Pan American Games gold medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Dominican Republic sportswomen
- 20th-century Dominican Republic sportswomen
- North American weightlifting biography stubs
- Dominican Republic sportspeople stubs