Tia-Clair Toomey
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Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||
Born |
Brisbane, Queensland Australia | 22 July 1993||||||||||||
Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||
Event(s) | Women's 58 kg | ||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | 2016 Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
References
- ↑ "Tia-Clair Toomey". Rio 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ↑ Tia Clair Inspires ..., Brisbane Times, Retrieved 15 August 2016
- ↑ "World CrossFit Games runner-up Tia Toomey finds Rio 2016 a different beast". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 August 2016.
- ↑ "Olympics-Weightlifting-World's 'Second Fittest Woman' ready for Rio". Yahoo Sports. 1 August 2016.
- ↑ "Journalist Criticizes Olympian Tia Toomey for Excelling in Two Sports". The Russells. 10 August 2016.