Personal information | |
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Nationality | Haitian |
Born | 24 December 1989 |
Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Haiti |
Sport | Weightlifting |
Edouard Joseph (born 24 December 1989) [1] is a Haitian Olympic weightlifter. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Men's 62 kg event, where he did not finish. Joseph was the first Olympic weightlifter for Haiti in over 50 years. He won the bronze medal in the clean & jerk at the 2014 Pan American Weightlifting Championships. [2]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Pan American Weightlifting Championships | ||||||||||||
2014 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 56 kg | 100 | 6 | 128 | 132 | 135 | 235 | 5 |
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