PARIS — Canada's Maude Charron won a silver medal in the women's 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Summer Olympics on Thursday.
PARIS — Canada's Maude Charron won a silver medal in the women's 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Summer Olympics on Thursday.
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 , while Kuo Hsing-Chun of Taiwan, the defending Olympic champion at 59kg, won the bronze with a total of 235 kg .
Charron, 31, attempted a final clean and jerk of 132kg, the highest weight she had ever attempted, but was unable to complete it.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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