| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Rosina Randafiarison | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Malagasy | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 1999 Majunga, Madagascar | ||||||||||||||
| 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. [5] [6] At the 2019 African Games, Randafiarison won the gold. [7] She won a total of 16 continental and regional gold medals in 2019. [8]
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 total, becoming the first medalist for Madagascar in any Olympics discipline at the world championship level. [9]
Randafiarison secured one of the top ten slots in her weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings, and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [10] In August 2024, she became the third woman to represent Madagascar in weightlifting at the Olympics, following Nathalia Rakotondramanana in 2012 and Elisa Vania Ravololoniaina in 2016, [3] when she competed in the women's 49 kg event at the Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. [3] [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] She was a flagbearer for Madagascar at the 2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations at the start of the games and for the parade of flagbearers at the closing ceremony. [3] [13]
She is coached at the national level by Thomas d'Aquin Rakotoarison. [3] Madagascar does not have a national weightlifting centre; she trains at a gym in Antananarivo. [3]
Her husband is Claudio Fanantenana Randrianavalona, who was the 2019 Madagascar champion in snatch, clean and jerk, and overall, and a gold medalist at the 2023 Indian Ocean Island Games. [14] [3]
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 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 | | ||
