After nearly eighteen months of starting weightlifting she was put in touch with a new coach, Ken Price. She sustained a back injury in 2000, which saw her miss international competition and training for over a year.
After taking a silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Breeze retired from the sport and opened a gym in Aberdare. However, she made a comeback for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, motivated by a desire to push athletes she was coaching towards qualifying for the Games themselves. Breeze won a bronze medal in the 58kg competition, setting a new Commonwealth Games snatch record and subsequently announced her second retirement.[3]
Christine Girard is a Canadian weightlifter from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. She competes in the 63 kg division. Girard was the first Canadian female to win a medal in weightlifting when she won gold at the 2012 London Olympics. She also won Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games titles in her weight class and has won multiple medals in each of those competitions. She holds the Commonwealth games record and the Pan-American Games record in the Clean and Jerk.
Iuniarra Sipaia is a Samoan female weightlifter. She has represented Samoa in several international competitions such as Pacific Mini Games, Commonwealth Games, Oceania Weightlifting Championships and Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
Tali Darsigny is a Canadian weightlifter.
Eileen Floanna Maria Cikamatana is an Australian weightlifter who previously represented Fiji. She competed in the women's 90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Cikamatana was named 2017 Fiji's sportswoman of the year, but was controversially omitted from consideration for the 2018 Fiji sports awards following her gold medal winning performance at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She also won the gold medal in the women's 87 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England, which made her the first woman to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games for two different countries.
Mihaela Valentina Cambei is a Romanian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 49kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia.
Dilara Narin is a Turkish weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey. She won the bronze medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania.
Kamila Konotop is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 59kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a three-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the European Weightlifting Championships. In 2021, Konotop represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Tatev Hakobyan is an Armenian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia. She also won the bronze medal in the women's 90kg event at the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships held in Split, Croatia.
Svitlana Samuliak is a Ukrainian weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the women's 55kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Solfrid Koanda is a Norwegian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 87kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. She is also a two-time gold medalist at the European Weightlifting Championships.
Daria Viktorovna Akhmerova is a Russian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 87kg event at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships held in Moscow, Russia.
Daniela Ivanova is a Latvian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania. She won the bronze medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia.
Giulia Imperio is an Italian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania. She also won two gold medals at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.
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