Tia-Clair Toomey

Tia-Clair Toomey
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1993-07-22) 22 July 1993
Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) Women's 58 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals 2016 Summer Olympics

Tia-Clair Toomey (born 22 July 1993) is an Australian weightlifter. She competed in the women's 58 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and came in 14th.[1]

She qualified for the Olympics after just 18 months of serious weightlifting training after learning by participating in CrossFit.[2] She is also an established CrossFit Games competitor and has finished second overall in both the 2015 and 2016 CrossFit Games. Since she participated in the Olympics less than a month after finishing the 2016 CrossFit Games, she garnered some criticism for not being a focused sport-specific athlete like many she qualified over.[3] Many CrossFit writers defended Toomey's performance citing that she did as well as could be expected from any competitor within the Australian Weightlifting Federation, a nation that only qualified to bring two weightlifting athletes to Rio (compared to an exceptional weightlifting federation, such as China, that qualified to bring ten athletes).[4][5]

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