| Intro | Romanian weightlifter |
| Is | Athlete Weightlifter |
| From | Romania |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 10 May 1995, Botoșani, Botoșani County, Romania |
| Age: | 25 years |
| Star sign | Taurus |
Loredana Elena Toma (born 10 May 1995) is a Romanian female weightlifter, World Champion and three time European Champion competing in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Career
World Championships
After winning the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships she competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in the 63 kg division. She won gold medals in the snatch, clean & jerk and total, finishing with a total of 237 kg, a full 12 kg over the silver medalist Lina Rivas.
European Championships
After winning two silver medals in the 58 kg categories at the 2013 and 2014 European Weightlifting Championships she moved up weight classes to the 63 kg in 2017. At the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships she won gold medals in all lifts to win her first European Championship.
In 2018, fresh off of a World Championships gold medal, she competed at the 2018 European Weightlifting Championships in her home country of Romania. She again won gold medals in all lifts, with her final total of 236 kg being 17 kg over the silver medalist Irina Lepșa, and 6 kg over the gold medallist of the next highest (69 kg) category.
Major results
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Wrocław, Poland | 58 kg | 91 | 95 | 6 | 111 | 116 | 118 | 5 | 213 | 4 | |
| 2017 | Anaheim, United States | 63 kg | 103 | 106 | 109 | 123 | 126 | 128 | 237 | |||
| 2018 | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 64 kg | 106 | 110 | 124 | 7 | 234 | |||||
| 2019 | Pattaya, Thailand | 64 kg | 107 | 112 | 128 | 4 | 240 | |||||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | Antalya, Turkey | 63 kg | 77 | 82 | 85 | 6 | 97 | 102 | 9 | 187 | 7 | |
| 2013 | Tirana, Albania | 58 kg | 89 | 93 | 108 | 113 | 117 | 210 | ||||
| 2014 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 58 kg | 90 | 93 | 96 | 111 | 115 | 211 | ||||
| 2017 | Split, Croatia | 63 kg | 100 | 121 | 126 | 226 | ||||||
| 2018 | Bucharest, Romania | 63 kg | 100 | 105 | 121 | 126 | 131 | 236 | ||||
| 2019 | Batumi, Georgia | 64 kg | 106 | 111 | 125 | 128 | 239 | |||||
| IWF World Cup | ||||||||||||
| 2020 | Rome, Italy | 64 kg | 100 | 105 | 113 | 122 | 130 | 136 | 249 | |||
