Canada’s Maude Charron won a silver medal in the women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Summer Olympics on Thursday at South Paris Arena.
She lifted 106kg in the snatch and 130kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 236kg to win Canada’s 20th medal at the Paris Games.
China’s Luo Shifang, the reigning world champion, won gold with an Olympic-record total of 241kg (107 snatch and 134 clean and jerk), while Kuo Hsing-Chun of Taiwan, the defending Olympic champion at 59kg, won the bronze with a total of 235 kg (105 snatch and 130 clean and jerk).
Charron, 31, attempted a final clean and jerk of 132kg, the highest weight she had ever attempted, but was unable to complete it.
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The silver is Charron’s second career Olympic medal.
Three years ago in Tokyo, the Rimouski, Que., lifter won gold in her Olympic debut in the women’s 64-kilogram division. However, that division doesn’t exist at the Paris Games, as the seven weight classes from the Tokyo Games were reduced to five.
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