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| Full name | Megan Ann Signal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1990-02-07) 7 February 1990 (age 34) 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 Zealand weightlifter who qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 76 kg category.
Career
Signal began weightlifting in 2013 at the FS Olympic Weightlifting Club in Auckland, New Zealand, which she attributed to her CrossFit interest. She holds two Oceania records in the 71 kg class and won medals at the 2019 Pacific Games and Oceania Weightlifting Championships.
She withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics without competing, due to a shoulder injury.
- Medalbox note
- Also clean & jerk silver and snatch bronze
References
- "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
- Megan Signal at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Megan Signal at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Megan Signal at Olympedia
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- 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