Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera of Ecuador after receiving the gold medal in women's 76kg weightlifting, at Tokyo Olympics.   -  AP

Ecuador's Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera won gold medal in the women's 76 kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, while United States' Katherine Nye won silver.

Dajomes Barrera lifted a total weight of 263 kg, considerably more than Nye's total of 249 kg.

Mexico's Aremi Fuentes Zavala took bronze.

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