Jackeline Rentería

Jackeline Rentería
Rentería at the 2015 Pan American Games
Personal information
Full nameJaqueline Rentería Castillo
Born23 February 1986 (1986-02-23) (age 39)
Cali, Colombia
Medal record
Representing  Colombia
Women's freestyle wrestling
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing 55 kg
2012 London 55 kg
World Championships
2017 Paris 63 kg
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro 55 kg
2019 Lima 62 kg
2015 Toronto 63 kg
Pan American Championships
2005 Guatemala City 59 kg
2007 San Salvador 55 kg
2014 Mexico City 63 kg
2016 Frisco 60 kg
2006 Rio de Janeiro 59 kg
2013 Panama City 63 kg
2018 Lima 62 kg
Central American and Caribbean Games
2010 Mayagüez 59 kg
2014 Veracruz 63 kg
2018 Barranquilla 62 kg
South American Games
2006 Buenos Aires 59 kg
2010 Medellín 59 kg
2014 Santiago 63 kg
2018 Cochabamba 62 kg
Bolivarian Games
2013 Trujillo 63 kg
2017 Santa Marta 63 kg
2005 Armenia-Pereira 59 kg

Jackeline Rentería Castillo[a] (born 23 February 1986 in Cali, Colombia) is a female wrestler from Colombia. She won a bronze medal in the women's freestyle 55 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics,[1] and repeated the feat in the women's freestyle 55 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] She reached the semifinals in both tournaments, losing to the eventual silver medalists and winning the repechage bout. With her second medal she tied Helmut Bellingrodt, an Olympic Sports Shooter as the most decorated Colombian Olympian. In the Rio 2016 Olympics, they were joined by Óscar Figueroa in Weightlifting, Caterine Ibargüen in Triple Jump and Mariana Pajón in BMX. She is studying at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and also at the Universidad de Thomas Gomez.

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rentería and the second or maternal family name is Castillo.

References

  1. ^ "Jackeline RENTERIA". Beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jackeline Rentería". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 November 2012.