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María Alexandra Escobar Guerrero (born July 17, 1980)〔 is an Ecuadorian female weightlifter. At the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships in Antalya, Turkey she won gold in the 53 kg category in the clean and jerk, bronze in the snatch, and the overall bronze medal with in total 205 kg. She ranked 7th in the Woman's 58 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics, lifting 215 kg in total.〔 At the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships she ranked 16th in the 58 kg category, and at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she ranked 5th in the same category, lifting a total of 220 kg.〔 Escobar won the gold medal in the 58 kg category at the 2008 Pan American Weightlifting Championships.〔 She competed in Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 58 kg in Beijing, ranking 5th with 223 kg in total,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=International Weightlifting Federation )〕 and also was the national flag bearer at the opening ceremony. She was the Ecuadorian flag-bearer for both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic games. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, she again competed in the women's 58 kg category, finishing 9th with a total of 226 kg. She was born on July 14, 1980 in the coastal city Esmeraldas.〔 ==Early life== Escobar’s parents struggled to support her, and soon sent her to be raised by her aunt Luisa Marquez. It was Luisa’s daughter, Adela Marquez, who introduced Escobar to the sport of weightlifting.〔 From an early age Escobar knew that sports would likely present the best opportunity to escape the poverty she had inherited at birth.〔 Escobar was found by a local coach in Esmeraldas named Silvio Mila.〔 Mila practically refused to let Escobar walk away from the sport, and just four months after beginning to train in the sport she won her first medal, and was shortly thereafter invited to join the Ecuadorian Weightlifting team.〔 Escobar first found international success in 2001 at the World Championships in Antalya, Turkey where she won a gold medal in the 53 kg Clean & Jerk event. Escobar has also found considerable success on her home continent winning 18 gold medals in various major South American competitions.〔 She has competed in three Olympic Games all in the 58 kg event, and is currently working towards qualifying for the 2016 games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.〔 Escobar and her husband Dario Xavier Garcia have one son, Dominic Ramses Garcia.〔 She is currently coached by the Cuban Javier Perez Rosas, and trains in her home town of Esmeraldas.〔 The government has provided her with facilities to train in and a monthly stipend to allow her to focus solely on weightlifting.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexandra Escobar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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