Jackeline Rentería

Jackeline Rentería Castillo[lower-alpha 1] (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 London 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.

Jackeline Rentería
Rentería at the 2015 Pan Am Games
Personal information
Full nameJaqueline Rentería Castillo
Born23 February 1986 (1986-02-23) (age 37)
Cali, Colombia
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Colombia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing 55 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 55 kg
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2017 Paris63 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro 55 kg
Silver medal – second place 2019 Lima 62 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Toronto 63 kg

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.


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