User:Ssgittoes/Sandbox
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| Full name | Damon [insert] Kelly | |||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
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Damon Kelly (born 1 December 1983 in Atherton, Queensland) is an Australian weightlifter who will compete at the 2008 Olympic Games. He is the biggest member of the Australian Olympic Team and will be Australia's only male weightlifter at the Games, having secured the sole position with a personal best lift on his final attempt at the Olympic Nomination Trials.
Kelly won a Silver Medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 105kg+ division and holds the Commonwealth Games record for the Clean and Jerk. He has been undefeated at the Australian Championships for the previous three years and is also the reigning Oceania champion. His heavy weight-training feats are popular on video sharing website youtube where he can be seen lifting upwards of 300kg's.
Kelly started weightlifting as a 15 year old at St Laurence's College in Brisbane where he also excelled at Rugby Union, playing in the First XV alongside Australian national rugby league team halfback Cooper Cronk, and Shot Put, setting the college record.
He trains at Cougars Weightlifting Club in Brisbane under coach Miles Wydall.
Personal Bests
[edit]| Lift | Weight | Date |
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| Snatch | 170.0 kg | 7 June 2008 |
| Clean & Jerk | 222.0 kg | 7 June 2008 |
| Total | 392.0 kg | 7 June 2008 |
