Rosina Randafiarison
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| Birth name | Rosina Randafiarison | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Malagasy | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 1999 Majunga, Madagascar | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  Madagascar | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 45 kg 48 kg 49 kg | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 180kg | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rosina Randafiarison (born 29 December 1999)[1] is a weightlifter from Madagascar. She is the silver medalist of 2023 World Championships and the first ever world medalist in any Olympic sport from Madagascar.[2]
Career
[edit]Randafiarison took up weightlifting at the age of 15 in her home town of Majunga. Her father encouraged her to start training at a local gym. Later, she moved to Antananarivo for training.[3]
Her snatch and total lifts at the 2019 African Championship were recognised as Junior Women's African Records.[4][5]
The last opportunity for Madagascar to ensure the qualification of its weightlifters for the Tokyo Olympics was at the African Championship Zone 3 (South Zone for juniors) event in November 2019. Jean Alex Harinelina Randriamanarivo, the President of the Madagascan weightlifting Federation (Fédération Malgache d’Haltérophilie, de musculation et culturisme) identified Randafiarison as a key part of the team.[5][6] At the 2019 African Games, Randafiarison won the gold.[7] Randafiarison won a total of 16 continental and regional gold medals in 2019.[8]
In September 2023, Randafiarison competed in the women's 45 kg at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships. She won silver medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events and in total becoming the first medalist for Madagascar in any Olympics discipline at the world championship level.[9]
Randafiarison secured one of the top ten slots in her weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings, and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[10] She became the third woman to represent Madagascar in weightlifting at the Olympics, following Nathalia Rakotondramanana in 2012 and Elisa Vania Ravololoniaina in 2016.[3] In August 2024, she became the third woman to represent Madagascar in weightlifting at the Olympics, following Nathalia Rakotondramanana in 2012 and Elisa Vania Ravololoniaina in 2016, when she competed in the women's 49 kg event at the Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[3][11][3] She set three African records in the Snatch (80 kg), Clean & Jerk (100 kg) and total (180 kg) finishing in 10th place.[11][12] She was a flagbearer for Madagascar at the 2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations at the start of the games and for the parade of flagbearers at the closing ceremony.[3]>[13]
She is coached at ntional level by Thomas d'Aquin Rakotoarison.[3] Madagascar does not have a national weightlifting centre; she trains at a gym in Antananarivo.[3] Her husband is Claudio Fanantenana Randrianavalona, who was the 2019 Madagascar champion in snatch, clean and jerk, and overall, and a gold medalist at the 2023 Indian Ocean Island Games.[14][3]
Achievements
[edit]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||
| 2024 |  Paris, France |
49 kg | 75 | 80 | — | 95 | 100 | — | 180 | 10 | ||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2019 |  Pattaya, Thailand |
45 kg | 65 | 70 | 5 | 85 | 10 | 155 | 8 | |||
| 2022 |  Bogotá, Colombia |
49 kg | 71 | 29 | — | — | — | |||||
| 2023 |  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
45 kg | 70 | 75 | 77 |  |
93 | |
170 |
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| IWF World Cup | ||||||||||||
| 2024 | Phuket, Thailand |
49 kg | 75 | 77 | 21 | 95 | 18 | 172 | 16 | |||
| African Games | ||||||||||||
| 2019 |  Rabat, Morocco |
45 kg | 65 | 70 |  |
80 | 85 | |
155 |
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| African Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2016 |  Yaoundé, Cameroon |
48 kg | 55 | 59 | 62 |  |
70 | 75 | 5 | 137 | 4 | |
| 2017 |  Vacoas, Mauritius |
48 kg | 55 | 60 | |
70 | |
130 |
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| 2019 |  Cairo, Egypt |
45 kg | 60 | 68 | 70 | |
80 | |
150 |
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| 2021 |  Nairobi, Kenya |
45 kg | 55 | 65 | |
70 | |
135 |
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| 2024 | Ismailia, Egypt |
49 kg | 70 | 74 | |
90 | 95 | |
169 |
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References
[edit]- ^ "Randafiarison Rosina". iwf.net. IWF. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Oliver, Brian (4 September 2023). "Weightlifter's wild screams greet landmark moment in sport for Madagascar at World Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "RANDAFIARISON Rosina". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Junior Women's African Records Until 29 April 2019" (PDF). wfa.com.ly. Weightlifting Federation of Africa. 29 April 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ a b Rasanda, Serge (27 April 2019). "Haltérophilie – Afrique – Eric et Rosina sacrés champions". L' Express de Madagascar. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Rasanda, Serge (13 June 2019). "Haltérophilie – JO 2020 – Cinq essais pour Tokyo". L' Express de Madagascar (Madagascar). Archived from the original on 8 October 2024. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ "Results-Women's 45kg Competition". jar2019.ma. Ministry of Youth and Sports, Morocco. Archived from the original on 19 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Pharlin, Soafara (2 January 2020). "Halterophilie: Rosina Randafiarison: J'ai le potential pour me qualifier pour lex Jeux olympiques" [Weightlifting: Rosina Randafiarison: I have the potential to qualify for the Olympic Games]. newsmada.com (in French). Archived from the original on 4 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Oliver, Brian (4 September 2023). "Riyadh, Day 1: The numbers look good for Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Madagascar". IWF. Archived from the original on 15 April 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Phuket, Day 2: World records and a sensational finish as Olympic champion Hou ousts China team-mate to claim place in Paris". International Weightlifting Federation. 1 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "JEUX OLYMPIQUES – Six records d'Afrique dans deux catégories pour Rosina Randafiarison". 2424.mg News & Reports (in French). 8 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Braidwood, Jamie (11 August 2024). "Every Olympic flagbearer for Paris 2024 closing ceremony including Alex Yee and Katie Ledecky". The Independent.
- ^ Raherinjatovo, Donné (31 July 2024). "J.O 2024 - HALTÉROPHILIE - Rosina Randafiarison vient en tant qu'outsider" [Olympic Games 2024 - Weightifting - Rosina Randafiarison comes as an outsider]. L'Express de Madagascar (in French).
External links
[edit]- Rosina Randafiarison at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Rosina Randafiarison at the International Weightlifting Results Project
- Rosina Randafiarison at Olympics.com
- newsmada.com interview (in French)
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Malagasy female weightlifters
- African Games medalists in weightlifting
- African Games gold medalists for Madagascar
- Competitors at the 2019 African Games
- African Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century Malagasy people
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Weightlifters at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Madagascar
- People from Boeny