Clementina Agricole

Clementina Ciana Agricole

Personal information
Born	(1988-07-18) 18 July 1988
Weight	62.3 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country	Seychelles
Sport	Weightlifting
Team	National team
Medal record Representing Seychelles Women's weightlifting African Games 2007 Algiers 58 kg 2015 Brazzaville 63 kg African Championships 2017 Vacoas 63 kg 2009 Kampala 53 kg 2016 Yaoundé 58 kg
Updated on 30 October 2017

Clementina Ciana Agricole (born (1988-07-18)18 July 1988) is a Seychellois female weightlifter, competing in the 58 kg and 63 kg category and representing Seychelles at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 African Weightlifting Championships.

She was the flag bearer at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Parade of Nations.

Career

Agricole entered the 2010 Commonwealth Games which was held in Delhi, India, before the competition she had seen doctors about headaches she had been suffering, this was put down to migraines, in the competition she suffered an elbow injury she still managed to finish in 4th place, during the competition she was still having bad headaches, but when in the games village she lost all her vision and blacked out, she was rushed to hospital where a scan showed a brain tumour, she had an operation and stayed in Delhi for another 45 days to help her recovery, she had another major operation in November 2011 then 12 months later she was declared fit to start weightlifting again, and entered the National Championships in November 2012.

Since her return she came second at the 2013 Commonwealth Championships, 4th at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and 26th at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. Agricole did win three medals (one silver and 2 bronze) at the 2015 All-African Games held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.

In 2015 she start to train with an American coach Kyle PIERCE and rank 1st place at the IOIG, she won 3 medals in 63 kg category (1 silver and 2 bronze) at the 2015 African Games held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo (she did 91 kg snatch, C&J 115 kg) and she ranked 26th at the World Weightlifting Championships. Despite in 2016 she won 3 bronze medals at the African Weightlifting Championships, the Seychelles Weightlifting Association did not put Clementina AGRICOLE in the team to participate to the Olympic Games and since that day she stoped training with the national coach William Dixie and start in September 2016 to train with a French-Lebanese coach and physical preparator Mr Zaher HAMDAN living in Seychelles since 2007.

March 2017 she was banned by the SWA for "misbehavior" and was not allowed to do weigthlifting locally and internationally but she took a lawyer and revocated the unjistified decision and ban.

Despite she was not allowed to do weightlifting she kept on training doing Power lifting with her coach Zaher HAMDAN and after 6 months she managed to become the 2017 French Open Champion in weightlifting, then participate in the African Championships & the Commonwealth Championships where she won the Gold medal.

This year the Internatioal Weigthlifting Federation banned 9 countries for doping - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Clementina AGRICOLE ranked in 2017 amongst the top 10 athletes in the world in 63 kg category in Snatch, top 3 athletes in the world in 63 kg category in Clean & Jerk and top 6 athletes in the world in 63 kg category for the total.

Agricole participated to the 2018 Commonwealth Games which was held in Gold Cost, Australia. 6 weeks before the competition she had an injection of cortisone in her right shoulder, in the competition she suffered on the third attempt in Snatch by a dislocted shoulder after doing 85 kg on her second snatch and then failed on all her attempt in Clean & Jerk. She was rushed to hospital where a scan showed 2 tars on the supraspinatus and on the biceps tendons, she had an operation and stayed in Gold Cost for another 2 weeks before being allowed to get back home.

Awards

In 2014, she won the Seychelles Sportswoman of the Year Award for the second consecutive year, 11 years earlier she had won the Young Female Athlete of the Year Award, and she has twice won the Seychelles Female Lifter of the Year in 2009 and 2013.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
World Championships
2015	Houston, United States	63 kg	81	81	81	30	105	108	110	23	191	26
African Championships
2016	Yaoundé, Cameroon	58 kg	77	80	80		98	101	101		178
2017	Vacoas, Mauritius	63 kg	80	84	86		105	107	112		193
Commonwealth Championships
2017	Gold Coast, Australia	63 kg	80	85	85		110	115	115		200
Commonwealth Games
2018	Gold Coast, Australia	63 kg	81	85	86	4	107	108	110	NDF	NDF	NDF