Darío Lionel Lecman (born 1 September 1971, in Buenos Aires) is a retired male weightlifter from Argentina. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Lecman won three silver medals in a row at the Pan American Games: 1995, 1999 and 2003. He is Jewish.
After his retirement from professional weightlifting (precipitated by an International Weightlifting Federation ban lasting until 2008),https://iwf.sport/anti-doping/sanctions/ Lecman worked as a personal fitness trainer for the Argentinian tennis player Mariano Puerta.
In 2020, following a period of stroke recovery, Lecman publicly denied Puerta's claims of his involvement in the latter's highly publicised 2005 doping scandal.https://www.lanacion.com.ar/deportes/fue-mentira-a-15-anos-su-doping-nid2410713/
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