Megan Signal
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| Full name | Megan Ann Signal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 February 1990 Hamilton,New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 76kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Megan Ann Signal(born 17 February 1990) is a New Zealandweightlifterwho qualified for the2020 Summer Olympicsin 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 herCrossFitinterest. She holds twoOceaniarecords in the 71 kg class[3]and won medals at the 2019 Pacific Games and Oceania Weightlifting Championships.[4]
She withdrew from theTokyo Olympicswithout competing, due to a shoulder injury.[5]
- Medalbox note
- ^Alsoclean & jerksilver andsnatchbronze
References
[edit]- ^"Tokyo Olympics: Meet the New Zealand team who will be going for gold".stuff.co.nz.2 July 2021.Retrieved20 July2021.
- ^"2020 Olympic Profile".NBC.Retrieved24 July2021.
- ^"Crossfit introduces Olympian Megan Signal to weightlifting".RNZ.13 July 2021.Retrieved24 July2021.
- ^"Megan Signal wins New Zealand's first medals at Pacific Games".New Zealand Olympic Committee.Retrieved24 July2021.
- ^"Bitter blow for NZ weightlifter".Radio New Zealand. 1 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Megan Signalat theInternational Weightlifting Federation
- Megan SignalatOlympedia
- Megan Signalat theNew Zealand Olympic Committee
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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 women
- Pacific Games bronze medalists
- Pacific Games medalists in weightlifting
- Weightlifting biography stubs