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Full name | Richard John Edward Patterson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 30 April 1983||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Richard John Edward Patterson (born 30 April 1983) is a weightlifting competitor for New Zealand.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi he won the silver medal in the men's 85 kg weightlifting event. [1] Four years later, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he won the gold medal in the same event. [2] He was New Zealand's flagbearer in the 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony. [3]
To qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics Patterson had to rely on fellow New Zealand teammate Tavita Ngalu to lift 150 kg at the Oceania Championships. In a selfless act Ngalu did so while injured with ripped quadriceps and New Zealand's highest ranked weightlifter (Patterson) qualified for the Games. [4]
Patterson married fellow weightlifter Phillipa Hale in Glasgow on 31 July 2014, after both had competed in the Commonwealth Games (Hale competed in the women's 53 kg event). [3] [5]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
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Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2016 | ![]() | 85 kg | 145 | 149 | 16 | 181 | 15 | 330 | 15 | |||
2012 | ![]() | 85 kg | 150 | 14 | 183 | 186 | 12 | 336 | 12 | |||
2008 | ![]() | 77 kg | 130 | 25 | 170 | 18 | 300 | 21 | ||||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2009 | ![]() | 85 kg | 140 | 144 | 18 | 178 | 17 | 322 | 17 | |||
2005 | ![]() | 77 kg | 125 | 23 | — | — | — | |||||
Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||
2014 | ![]() | 85 kg | 147 | 151 | 1 | 184 | 1 | 335 | ![]() | |||
2010 | ![]() | 85 kg | 142 | 146 | 150 | 1 | 181 | 2 | 331 | ![]() | ||
2006 | ![]() | 77 kg | 128 | 135 | 4 | 158 | 4 | 293 | 4 [6] | |||
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