Rosina Randafiarison

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Rosina Randafiarison
Personal information
Birth nameRosina Randafiarison
NationalityMalagasy
Born (1999-12-29) 29 December 1999 (age 25)
Majunga, Madagascar
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
CountryFile:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar
SportWeightlifting
Event(s)45 kg
48 kg
49 kg
Achievements and titles
Personal best180kg
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing File:Flag of Madagascar.svg Madagascar
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Riyadh 45 kg

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

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] She 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 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] 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,[3] when she competed in the women's 49 kg event at the Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[3][11] 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 the national 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

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Summer Olympics
2024 France Paris, France 49 kg 75 80 83 — 95 100 100 — 180 10
World Championships
2019 Thailand Pattaya, Thailand 45 kg 65 70 72 5 85 90 90 10 155 8
2022 Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 49 kg 71 75 75 29 91 91 91 — — —
2023 Saudi Arabia Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 45 kg 70 75 77 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 93 100 100 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 170 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
IWF World Cup
2024 Thailand Phuket, Thailand 49 kg 75 75 77 21 95 100 100 18 172 16
African Games
2019 Morocco Rabat, Morocco 45 kg 65 70 73 1st place, gold medalist(s) 80 85 85 1st place, gold medalist(s) 155 1st place, gold medalist(s)
African Championships
2016 Cameroon Yaoundé, Cameroon 48 kg 55 59 62 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 70 75 75 5 137 4
2017 Mauritius Vacoas, Mauritius 48 kg 55 60 60 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 70 75 80 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 130 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019 Egypt Cairo, Egypt 45 kg 60 68 70 1st place, gold medalist(s) 80 85 85 1st place, gold medalist(s) 150 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021 Kenya Nairobi, Kenya 45 kg 55 65 65 1st place, gold medalist(s) 70 80 80 1st place, gold medalist(s) 135 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Egypt Ismailia, Egypt 49 kg 70 74 78 1st place, gold medalist(s) 90 95 100 1st place, gold medalist(s) 169 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ↑ "Randafiarison Rosina". iwf.net. IWF. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "RANDAFIARISON Rosina". Paris 2024. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ 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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  13. ↑ Braidwood, Jamie (11 August 2024). "Every Olympic flagbearer for Paris 2024 closing ceremony including Alex Yee and Katie Ledecky". The Independent.
  14. ↑ 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 français).

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