Wendy Hale

Wendy Hale
Personal information
Born (1987-11-03) November 3, 1987 (age 37)
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country Solomon Islands
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Oceania Weightlifting Championships
Silver medal – second place 2008 Auckland 58 kg

Wendy Hale (born November 3, 1987[1]) is a Solomon Islands weightlifter.

She won a silver medal and a bronze at the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2004, two silver medals at the Mini South Pacific Games in 2005, four gold medals at the Arafura Games in 2007, and two silver medals at the South Pacific Games in 2007.[1]

Hale represented Solomon Islands at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She was her country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.[2] In the Olympic tournament she ranked 12th in the 58 kg category, with a total of 173 kg.[3] In 2016 after the silver medalist Russian Marina Shainova disqualified, she stepped up to the eleventh place.[4]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Result Rank 1 2 3 Result Rank
Representing  Solomon Islands
Olympic Games
2008 China Beijing, China 58 kg 74 78 82 78 11 95 100 100 95 11 173 11
World Championships
2007 Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand 58 kg 74 78 78 74 31 96 96 101 96 29 170 30
Oceania Championships
2008 New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand 58 kg 65 70 75 75 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 80 90 95 90 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 165 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Commonwealth Games
2006 Australia Melbourne, Australia[5] 53 kg 60 60 62 62 5 75 80 84 80 5 142 5
Pacific Games
2007 Samoa Apia, Samoa 58 kg — — — 79 2nd place, silver medalist(s) — — — 95 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 174 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ a b "Weightlifter Wendy", Solomon Star July 25, 2008
  2. ^ "Hale carries our flag", Solomon Star, July 24, 2008
  3. ^ "HALE Wendy". International Weightlifting Federation.
  4. ^ "Retests for two Russian weightlifting medalists come back positive", www.espn.co.uk, June 7, 2016
  5. ^ "Women's 53 kg - Result". www.melbourne2006.com.au. Archived from the original on October 10, 2006.
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Solomon Islands
Beijing 2008 		Succeeded by



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