Nora Köppel

Nora Edith Koppel is an Argentine Olympic weightlifter. She has represented her country at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She is Jewish.
She has had a varied athletic career, beginning when she started gymnastics at the age of 15. Koppel competed on the Argentine National Gymnastics Team. In her twenties, she became a weightlifter.
In her three Olympic appearance, she earned her highest total in 2004, when she successfully completed a 220-lb snatch and 302.5-lb clean and jerk in the 165-lb category. Before competing in the 2004 Games in Athens, she held the Pan-American record with a 572-lb total.