Canadian weightlifter Maude Charron wins Canada’s second gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Charron is Canada’s second Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting, after Christine Girard won in 2012
Maude G. Charron of Canada celebrates after a lift in the women's 64kg weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on July 27.As Maude Charron pressed the 131-kilogram barbell above her head with all her might, locked her elbows, and steadied her legs, a euphoric expression spread across her face.
Charron began weightlifting after a fascinating athletic journey. She started out as a gymnast, then did two years of full-time training as an acrobat at the École de Cirque de Québec, a circus school. She spent her days in classes for dance, flexibility and trampoline. She could do the Russian barre: a circus act in which two strong men hold the ends of a flexible balance beam and repeatedly catapult a woman high into the air as she performs flips and twists.
Friends around her were competing at CrossFit, and she wanted in. She joined CrossFit Rimouski at 19 years old. She progressed quickly, and eventually caught the eye of a weightlifting coach. Ever since, she has been impressing people with how much she can put on the bar. She followed with more promising results: In 2018, she won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, as well as the 2018 World University Championships. In 2019, she was fourth in the 64-kilogram event at the Pan Am Games in Lima, sixth at the IWF World Championships, and took gold at the IWF Grand Prix in Lima.
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