Neisi Patricia Dájomes Barrera (born 12 May 1998) is an Ecuadorian weightlifter, who is the 2020 Tokyo 76 kg Olympic Champion, a 6-time Pan American Champion, Pan American Games Champion and a 3-time Junior World Champion. As of 2024, she is the only female Ecuadorian athlete to win multiple Olympic medals. She competed in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 76 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 76 kg She is the older sister of the 2023 Pan American champion and Olympic medalist weightlifter Angie Palacios.
As of 2 June 2025, Dajomes has been suspended for 14 months after testing positive for clomifene metabolite.IWF Anti-Doping Rule Violations
Career Dajomes competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh overall.
She became junior world champion in 2017 in the 75 kg division, and defended her title in 2018. She won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in the 75 kg division, and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 76 kg. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships she set junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total.
In April 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships winning gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and the total. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in the 76 kg division.2019 Pan American Games Results In the snatch portion of the competition she lifted 115 kg with her third, and final lift. She led Aremi Fuentes by a full 5 kg when the clean & jerk portion began, and lifted 140 kg with her final lift and clinched the gold medal.
Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
She won the gold medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition. She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia. She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.
Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina. In 2024, she won the gold medal in her event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 2021 she was part of a biographical documentary of her and her weightlifting teammates, Angie Dajomes and Tamara Salazar, with Retrogusto Films Inc. called Shell: Land of Champions.
In 2022, it was announced that another production from the same studio was in the making, with a documentary film of her life called Neisi: The Power of a Dream. It is expected to be released in November 2023.
On 6 June 2024, the Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee, named her and the Ecuadorian olympic walker Brian Pintado as the official flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, however was the dressage rider Julio Mendoza Loor, who was the partner in carry the flag in the opening ceremony, replacing to Pintado. In August 2024, she competed in the women's 81kg event. She was leading after the Snatch with a 122 kg lift and went down to the third place after the Clean & Jerk with a total of 267 kg.
In 2025, Ecuadorian weightlifter Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera was sanctioned after testing positive for the prohibited substance clomifene in an out-of-competition sample collected on 7 April 2025. The International Testing Agency (ITA), acting on behalf of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), imposed a 14-month period of ineligibility from 2 June 2025 to 1 August 2026. Her competitive results from 7 April 2025 onward were disqualified.
Researchers at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador named a newly discovered species of glass frog, the Dajomes glass frog, in her honour. It was found in the El Quimi Nature Reserve in Ecuador.
Achievements Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank 1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 69 kg 100 104 107 130 135 135 237 7 2020 Tokyo, Japan 76 kg 111 115 118 135 140 145 263 2024 Paris, France 81 kg 118 118 122 145 145 151 267 World Championships 2015 Houston, United States 69 kg 98 102 103 9 125 130 132 10 233 10 2017 Anaheim, United States 75 kg 103 106 108 128 132 135 240 2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 76 kg 110 115 117 137 142 146 4 259 2019 Pattaya, Thailand 76 kg 110 115 116 135 139 139 4 245 2022 Bogotá, Colombia 81 kg 116 116 117 4 141 145 146 5 258 52023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia81 kg115 118 120 — — — — — —IWF World Cup 2024 Phuket, Thailand 81 kg 118 121 123 143 146 — 269 Pan American Games2015 Toronto, Canada 69 kg 98 98 100 121 123 125 225 2019 Lima, Peru 76 kg 109 112 115 135 135 140 255 Pan American Championships 2017 Miami, United States 75 kg 103 107 110 128 131 140 241 2018 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 75 kg 107 111 114 132 137 140 248 2019 Guatemala City, Guatemala 76 kg 104 108 109 131 136 — 245 2022 Bogotá, Colombia 81 kg 113 117 120 138 143 143 263 2023 Bariloche, Argentina 81 kg 106 111 115 136 141 145 256 2024 Caracas, Venezuela 81 kg 115 118 121 141 141 146 262 Junior World Championships2016 Tbilisi, Georgia 69 kg 99 103 105 123 125 — 230 2017 Tokyo, Japan 75 kg 103 106 108 128 134 134 242 2018 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 75 kg 105 110 115 128 134 140 255
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