Chilean weightlifter

Elizabeth Francesca Poblete Fernández (born September 28, 1987 in Santiago) is a Chilean weightlifter. Poblete represented Chile at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's heavyweight category (75:kg). Poblete placed twelfth in this event, as she successfully lifted 91:kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 106:kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk, for a total of 197:kg.

On December 8, 2009, Poblete was featured in the world headlines, when she unexpectedly gave birth to a boy during a training session in Brazil, not even realizing that she was pregnant. Her boy was three months premature, and was taken to a local hospital in São Paulo with his mother, where he remained in the intensive care unit. Unfortunately, the boy named Eric Jose died within a week.

References

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile