The third time’s the medal for Lidia Valentín…

The 31-year-old Spanish weightlifter has earned the bronze medal in the Weightlifting Women’s 75 kg competition at the 2016 Rio Games.

Despite being in the lead much of the competition, Valentín was ultimately surpassed by Belarus’ Darya Naumova and North Korea’s Jong Sim Rim, having to settle for third place.

Valentín lifted 116kg in the snatch and 141 twice, for a total of 257. Just after her last attempt, Naumova lifted 142kg to snatch the gold away from Valentín, but her joy of making it onto the medal podium.

Valentín competed at the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Games, finishing in fifth and fourth place, respectively.

However, in 2016, after the retesting of the samples from that category at the 2012 Summer Olympics, it was discovered that the three medalists all tested positive for prohibited substances; if the B samples return positive, the medals would be stripped from them, meaning that Valentín would be the gold medalist for the event.