Laura Amaro
Laura Nascimento Amaro is a Brazilian weightlifter.
Career
She won the silver medal in the 2021 [World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 76 kg|women's 76kg] Snatch event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She won the silver medal in Weightlifting at the 2022 [South American Games|women's 87kg] event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay. She is a three-time bronze medalist at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships.In 2023, Amaro won the bronze medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2023 [Pan American Games|Pan American Games] held in Santiago, Chile. In February 2024, she won the bronze medal in her event at the 2024 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.
In August 2024, Amaro competed in the Weightlifting at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 81 kg|women's 81kg] event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. She lifted 240 kg in total and finished seventh among 13 participants.
She also competed in the Skeleton at the [2016 Winter Youth Olympics – Girls'|girls' skeleton] event at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics held in Lillehammer, Norway.