[1] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal.

[2][3] López took up weightlifting in 2016 and followed his cousin, Wilmer Hernan Torres Lopez who was the 2010 Pan American overall champion in the 94 kg weight class.

[4] In August 2024, López competed in the men's 89 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.

He lifted 390 kg in total and won a silver medal.

Three weeks before that he had had a back injury.