{{Short description|Venezuelan weightlifter (born 1986)}} {{family name hatnote|Rivas|Arteaga|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox sportsperson | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|10|2}} | birth_place = San Carlos, Cojedes, Venezuela | height = {{height|m=1.47}} | weight = {{convert|48|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | country = {{VEN}} | sport = Weightlifting | event = 48kg | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's Weightlifting}} {{MedalCountry | {{VEN}} }} {{MedalCompetition |Pan American Games}} {{MedalSilver| 2007 Rio de Janeiro | – 48 kg}} {{MedalSilver| 2011 Guadalajara | – 48 kg}} {{MedalCompetition | Pan American Championships}} {{MedalGold| 2008 Callao | – 48 kg}} {{MedalCompetition |Pan American Sports Festival}} {{MedalGold| 2014 Mexico | – 48 kg C&J}} {{MedalBronze| 2014 Mexico | – 48 kg Snatch}} {{MedalCompetition|Central American and Caribbean Games}} {{MedalBronze| 2006 Cartagena | – 53 kg Snatch}} {{MedalBronze| 2006 Cartagena | – 53 kg C&J}} {{MedalBronze| 2006 Cartagena | – 53 kg Total}} }}
'''Betsi Gabriela Rivas Arteaga''' (born October 2, 1986 in San Carlos, Cojedes, Venezuela<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/betsi-rivas-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105853/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/betsi-rivas-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Betsi Rivas Bio, Stats, and Results|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref>) is a weightlifter from Venezuela. She won the silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games for her native South American country in the – 48 kg weight division. Her first name is sometimes also spelled as '''Betsy'''.
She won the gold medal in clean and jerk and bronze in snatch during the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sistemas.conade.gob.mx/MedallerosFDP/PlantillaResultadosXPrueba.aspx?IDPrueba=461&IDEvento=32&IDEntidad=0|title=Resultados por Prueba - Levantamiento de Pesas - Weightlifting - 48 Kg - Femenil - Arranque|publisher=CONADE|language=Spanish|year=2014|accessdate=2015-11-23|archive-date=2015-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124203349/http://sistemas.conade.gob.mx/MedallerosFDP/PlantillaResultadosXPrueba.aspx?IDPrueba=461&IDEvento=32&IDEntidad=0|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sistemas.conade.gob.mx/MedallerosFDP/PlantillaResultadosXPrueba.aspx?IDPrueba=462&IDEvento=32&IDEntidad=0|title=Resultados por Prueba - Levantamiento de Pesas - Weightlifting - 48 Kg - Femenil - Envion|publisher=CONADE|language=Spanish|year=2014|accessdate=2015-11-23|archive-date=2015-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124174342/http://sistemas.conade.gob.mx/MedallerosFDP/PlantillaResultadosXPrueba.aspx?IDPrueba=462&IDEvento=32&IDEntidad=0|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.<ref name=":0" />
==References== <references/>
==External links== * [http://www.iwf.net/ iwf.net]
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