Wendy Hale

Wendy Hale
Personal information
Born	November 3, 1987
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country	Solomon Islands
Sport	Weightlifting
Medal record
Oceania Weightlifting Championships

Wendy Hale (born November 3, 1987[1]) is a Solomon Islands weightlifter.

She won a silver medal and a bronze at the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2004, two silver medals at the Mini South Pacific Games in 2005, four gold medals at the Arafura Games in 2007, and two silver medals at the South Pacific Games in 2007.[1]

Hale represented the Solomon Islands at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She was her country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.[2] In the Olympic tournament she ranked 12th in the 58 kg category, with a total of 173 kg.[3] In 2016 after the silver medalist Russian Marina Shainova disqualified, she stepped up to the eleventh place.[4]

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)					Clean & Jerk (kg)					Total	Rank
Year	Venue	Weight	1	2	3	Result	Rank	1	2	3	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Representing Solomon Islands
Olympic Games
2008	Beijing, China	58 kg	74	78	82	78	11	95	~~100~~	~~100~~	95	11	173	11
World Championships
2007	Chiang Mai, Thailand	58 kg	74	78	78	74	31	96	96	~~101~~	96	29	170	30
Oceania Championships
2008	Auckland, New Zealand	58 kg	65	70	75	75		80	90	95	90		165
Commonwealth Games
2006	Melbourne, Australia[5]	53 kg	60	60	62	62	5	75	80	84	80	5	142	5
Pacific Games
2007	Apia, Samoa	58 kg	—	—	—	79		—	—	—	95		174

"Weightlifter Wendy", Solomon Star July 25, 2008
"Hale carries our flag", Solomon Star, July 24, 2008
"HALE Wendy". International Weightlifting Federation.
"Retests for two Russian weightlifting medalists come back positive", www.espn.co.uk, June 7, 2016
"Women's 53 kg - Result". www.melbourne2006.com.au. Archived from the original on October 10, 2006.

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