Maude Charron
Canadian weightlifter (born 1993)
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| Full name | Maude G. Charron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1993-04-28) 28 April 1993 (age 30) Sainte-Luce, Quebec,[1] Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 64 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Team Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Snatch 107kg[2] NR Cl&Jerk 133kg[2] Total 240kg[2] NR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maude G. Charron (born 28 April 1993) is a Canadian 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.
Career
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, who had only received her gold six years after the 2012 Summer Olympics after the other two athletes in front of her were disqualified.[7]
Charron joined the Canadian team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and was named as co-flagbearer for the opening ceremony alongside wheelchair racer Josh Cassidy.[8] She noted her excitement at her family being able to attend, which had not been the case at the Olympics due to the pandemic.[9] Charron mounted a successful title defence in Birmingham.[10]
In December 2022, she won the bronze medal in the women's 59 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[11] In that same month, she was also elected as member of the IWF Athletes' Commission.[12]
Charron won the gold medal in her event at the 2023 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bariloche, Argentina.[13] She also won the gold medal in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events.
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.
- ^ "Maude Charron, Josh Cassidy named Canada's flag-bearers for Commonwealth Games". CBC Sports. July 21, 2022.
- ^ Smart, Zack (July 30, 2022). "Canadian weightlifter Maude Charron ready for new chapter at Commonwealth Games". CBC Sports.
- ^ "Charron, Deguchi and McIntosh top the podium for Canada at Commonwealth Games". CTV News. August 1, 2022.
- ^ Oliver, Brian (8 December 2022). "Colombians go wild as Álvarez beats two Olympic champions at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ^ Oliver, Brian (21 December 2022). "Three Olympic weightlifting champions and 700,000 Instagram followers - the new IWF Athletes Commission". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ Oliver, Brian (28 March 2023). "Pan American title for Canada's Olympic weightlifting champion Charron". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
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- 2000:
Chen Xiaomin (CHN) - 2004:
Nataliya Skakun (UKR) - 2008:
Pak Hyon-suk (PRK) - 2012:
Christine Girard (CAN) - 2016: Deng Wei (CHN)
- 2020: Maude Charron (CAN)
- 63 kg (2000–2016)
- 64 kg (2020)
Commonwealth Games champions in weightlifting – women's middleweight | |
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