New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard will make history this summer as the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympic Games. Today we will discuss about Laurel Hubbard: World Record| Before and After| Olympics
Laurel Hubbard: World Record| Before and After| Olympics
Laurel Hubbard is a New Zealand weightlifter. Competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics, she is the first transgender athlete to compete in an Olympic Games.
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| Nationality | New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Born | 9 February 1978 (age 43)[1] Auckland[2] |
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| Years active | 1998–present | |||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||
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Medal record
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World Record
At the 2017 Australian International & Australian Open in Melbourne, she competed at the heaviest 90 kg+ category, winning the gold medal with a 123 kg snatch and 145 kg clean & jerk, for a total of 268 kg at a bodyweight of 131.83 kg.
Laurel Hubbard, a transgender weightlifter from New Zealand has broken a new weightlifting record by winning twice at this year’s IWF World Weightlifting Championships.
Hubbard is breaking down barriers when it comes to weightlifting. In addition to the fact that she is transgender, Hubbard is the first New Zealander to win a medal at any world championship, according to Stuff.co.nz, a New Zealand news site.
Before and After
“I am grateful and humbled for the kindness and support extended to me by so many New Zealanders,” Hubbard said in a statement issued by the New Zealand Olympic Committee on Monday.
She will compete in the women’s 87kg weightlifting category.
The 43-year-old became eligible to compete in the Olympics when in 2015 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) changed its rules to allow transgender athletes to compete as a woman if their testosterone levels were a certain amount. from the border.
Olympics
Hubbard, who won silver at the 2017 World Championships and finished sixth in the 2019 edition after recovering from a serious hand injury at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, said she was happy to be selected.
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games
