Maude Charron
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Full name | Maude G. Charron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sainte-Luce, Quebec,[1] Canada | 28 April 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | 64 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | Team Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | Snatch 107kg[2] NR
Cl&Jerk 133kg[2] Total 240kg[2] NR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maude G. Charron (born weightlifter,[3] who competes in the 63/64 kg category and represents Canada at international competitions. She is an Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the women's 64 kg division. Charron also owns the clean & jerk Commonwealth Games record, the snatch and total Canadian weightlifting records, all the Panamerican records in her weight class.
28 April 1993) is a CanadianCareer[]
Charron won the silver medal in the snatch at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships.[4]
She continued her international weightlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. There she lifted a Commonwealth Games record when she lifted 122 kilograms (269 lb) in the clean and jerk on the way to the gold medal. This record beat compatriot Christine Girard's record from the 2006 Commonwealth Games by 1 kg.[5]
In her buildup to the 2020 Summer Olympics Charron competed at the 2020 Pan American Weightlifting Championships which were held in 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. She had a very successful competition in Santo Domingo on her way to gold setting personal bests and a Panamerican Record in all of the snatch, clean & jerk, and total lifted categories.[2] Charron won the gold medal in 64 kg division at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with a 105 kg snatch and 131 kg clean and jerk, for a total of 236 kg.[6] Following her victory she dedicated her gold medal win to fellow Canadian Olympic champion Christine Girard.[7] Girard only received her gold six years after the 2012 Summer Olympics after the other two athletes in front of her were disqualified.
References[]
- ^ a b c "Maude Charron". results.gc2018.com. 2018 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d "La Rimouskoise Maude Charron remporte trois médailles d'or". radio-canada.ca. Radio Canada. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
- ^ "Maude Charron IWF profile". iwf.net. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "2017 World Weightlifting Championships - Maude Charron". iwf.net. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ "Canadian gymnast Ellie Black earns 2nd gold at Commonwealth Games". CBC Sports. Canadian Press. April 7, 2018. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ^ "Canada's Maude Charron wins Olympic weightlifting gold". CBC Sports. July 27, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
- ^ "Maude Charron shares weightlifting gold with Canadian denied triumph in 2012". CBC Sports. July 28, 2021.
External links[]
- 1993 births
- Living people
- French Quebecers
- Canadian female weightlifters
- Sportspeople from Quebec
- People from Rimouski
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Weightlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Weightlifters at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Canada
- Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Canadian weightlifting biography stubs