| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Rosina Randafiarison | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Malagasy | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| 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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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]
Randafiarison 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. [6] [7] At the 2019 African Games, Randafiarison won the gold. [8] Randafiarison won a total of 16 continental and regional gold medals in 2019. [9]
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 in total becoming the first medalist for Madagascar in any Olympics discipline at the world championship level. [10]
In August 2024, Randafiarison competed in the women's 49 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. [11] She set three African records in the Snatch (80 kg), Clean & Jerk (100 kg) and total (180 kg) finishing in 10th place. [11] [12]
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | ||
| 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 | | ||
| African Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2016 |  Yaoundé, Cameroon | 48 kg | 55 | 59 | 62 |  | 70 | 75 | 5 | 137 | 4 | |
| 2017 |  Vacoas, Mauritius | 48 kg | 55 | 60 | | 70 | | 130 | | |||
| 2019 |  Cairo, Egypt | 45 kg | 60 | 68 | 70 | | 80 | | 150 | | ||
| 2021 |  Nairobi, Kenya | 45 kg | 55 | 65 | | 70 | | 135 | | |||
| 2024 | Ismailia, Egypt | 49 kg | 70 | 74 | | 90 | 95 | | 169 | | ||
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