Laura Amaro

Laura Nascimento Amaro was born on October 27th, 2000, in Brazil, and she’s an accomplished weightlifter with an international presence. She won a silver medal in the women’s 76 kg snatch at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships. Laura has also won bronze medals in the Pan American Weightlifting Championships and the Pan American Games. Apart from weightlifting, she has also shown her athletic skills in the skeleton event at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. 

Laura’s big break came in 2021 when she won the silver medal in the women’s 76 kg snatch at the World Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. This showed her potential.

In 2022, she continued with impressive performances and won a silver medal in the women’s 87 kg category at the South American Gems in Asunción, Paraguay. She’s consistent and it shows – she’s won multiple bronze medals at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships in 2020, 2021, and 2022. 

In 2023, she won a bronze medal in the women’s 81 kg event at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, and she repeated this success with another bronze at the 2024 Pan American Weightlifting Championships in Caracas, Venezuela. 

But her talents go beyond weightlifting. At the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, she competed in the girls’ skeleton event and showed how versatile she is.