Katherin Echandia

Katherin Oriana Echandia Zárate (born 14 August 2001) is a Venezuelan weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. She won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.

Career
Echandia won the gold medal in the girls' 44kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A month later, she won the bronze medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Echandia also competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand.

Echandia won the bronze medal in the women's 49kg event at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games held in Cali and Valle, Colombia.

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. Two months later, she competed in the women's 49kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.

Echandia competed in the women's 49kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She won the silver medal in the women's 49kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.

In 2024, she won the silver medal in the women's 49kg event at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas, Venezuela.