Megan Signal
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Full name | Megan Ann Signal | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hamilton, New Zealand | 7 February 1990|||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 76kg | |||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Meet the New Zealand team who will be going for gold". stuff.co.nz. 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.
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