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]
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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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Career
editRandafiarison 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][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 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
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
- Rosina Randafiarison at Olympics.com
- newsmada.com interview (in French)
