Weightlifters round out Team Canada for Rio 2016
Two weightlifters will round out Team Canada after being named to the Olympic squad for Rio 2016.
Marie-Eve Beauchemin-Nadeau and Pascal Plamondon are the final two to be named to the Canadian Olympic Team as it sets its sights on Rio, bringing Team Canada to 313 hopefuls at time of writing.
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Canada’s Marie-Eve Beauchemin-Nadeau competes during the women’s 69-kg, group B, weightlifting competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Beauchemin-Nadeau will be returning to the Olympic Games after making her debut at London 2012, where she was eighth in the 69kg category. Since London, Beauchemin-Nadeau won Commonwealth Games gold and placed fourth at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games – both in the 75kg class.
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The lone male weightlifter joining Team Canada is Plamondon, who also came fourth at TO2015 after claiming a Commonwealth bronze a year earlier in the 85kg division. Rio will be Plamondon’s first Olympic Games.
Canada has three medals all time in Olympic weightlifting, with Christine Girard bringing home the latest four years ago from Britain.
