Neisi Dajomes

Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera
Dajomes in 2021
Personal information
Born (1998-05-12) 12 May 1998
Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight75.80 kg (167 lb)
Sport
CountryEcuador
SportWeightlifting
Event–76 kg
Coached byMayra Hoyos
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 118 kg (2021)
  • Clean and jerk: 145 kg (2021)
  • Total: 263 kg (2021)
Medal record
Representing  Ecuador
Women's weightlifting
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo–76 kg
2024 Paris–81 kg
World Championships
2017 Anaheim–75 kg
2018 Ashgabat–76 kg
2019 Pattaya–76 kg
Pan American Games
2019 Lima–76 kg
2015 Toronto–69 kg
Pan American Championships
2017 Miami–75 kg
2018 Santo Domingo–75 kg
2019 Guatemala City–76 kg
2022 Bogotá–81 kg
2023 Bariloche–81 kg
2024 Caracas–81 kg
South American Games
2018 Cochabamba–75 kg
2022 Asunción–87 kg
Junior World Championships
2016 Tbilisi–69 kg
2017 Tokyo–75 kg
2018 Tashkent–75 kg

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. As of 2 June 2025 Neisi Dajomes has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for presence of clomifene metabolite, which may be used to mitigate some of the adverse effects associated with synthetic steroid abuse.