Megan Signal
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New Zealand weightlifter (born 1990)
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| Full name | Megan Ann Signal | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1990年02月07日) 7 February 1990 (age 35) Hamilton, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 76kg | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Megan Ann Signal (born 17 February 1990) is a New Zealand weightlifter who qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 76 kg category.[1]
Career
[edit ]Signal began weightlifting in 2013 at the FS Olympic Weightlifting Club in Auckland, New Zealand,[2] which she attributed to her CrossFit interest. She holds two Oceania records in the 71 kg class[3] and won medals at the 2019 Pacific Games and Oceania Weightlifting Championships.[4]
She withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics without competing, due to a shoulder injury.[5]
- Medalbox note
- ^ Also clean & jerk silver and snatch bronze
References
[edit ]- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Meet the New Zealand team who will be going for gold". Stuff . 2 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "2020 Olympic Profile". NBC. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Crossfit introduces Olympian Megan Signal to weightlifting". RNZ . 13 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Megan Signal wins New Zealand's first medals at Pacific Games". New Zealand Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Bitter blow for NZ weightlifter". Radio New Zealand. 1 August 2021.
External links
[edit ]- Megan Signal at the International Weightlifting Federation Edit on Wikidata
- Megan Signal at the New Zealand Olympic Committee Edit on Wikidata
- Megan Signal at Olympedia Edit on Wikidata
Categories:
- 1990 births
- Living people
- New Zealand female weightlifters
- Sportspeople from Hamilton, New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand
- Weightlifters at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
- Pacific Games bronze medalists
- Pacific Games medalists in weightlifting
- Weightlifting biography stubs