Richie Patterson
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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]
Major results
[edit]Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Representing New Zealand | ||||||||||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 85 kg | 145 | 149 | 16 | 181 | 15 | 330 | 15 | |||
2012 | London, Great Britain | 85 kg | 150 | 14 | 183 | 186 | 12 | 336 | 12 | |||
2008 | Beijing, China | 77 kg | 130 | 25 | 170 | 18 | 300 | 21 | ||||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2009 | Goyang, South Korea | 85 kg | 140 | 144 | 18 | 178 | 17 | 322 | 17 | |||
2005 | Doha, Qatar | 77 kg | 125 | 23 | — | — | — | |||||
Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||
2014 | Glasgow, Scotland | 85 kg | 147 | 151 | 1 | 184 | 1 | 335 | ||||
2010 | Delhi, India | 85 kg | 142 | 146 | 150 | 1 | 181 | 2 | 331 | |||
2006 | Melbourne, Australia | 77 kg | 128 | 135 | 4 | 158 | 4 | 293 | 4[6] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Richard Patterson". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ Shannon, Kris (29 July 2014). "Commonwealth Games: Patterson lifts gold". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ a b Anderson, Ian (4 August 2014). "Patterson to fly NZ flag at closing ceremony". Fairfax New Zealand. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ^ "Patterson seeks a shirt to give to hero Ngalu". stuff.co.nz. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
- ^ "Wedding bells for weightlifting golden boy". Television New Zealand. 29 July 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ "Men's 77 kg - Result". www.melbourne2006.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 October 2006.
External links
[edit]- Richie Patterson at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Richie Patterson at Olympedia
- Richie Patterson at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- Living people
- 1983 births
- New Zealand male weightlifters
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Weightlifters at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic weightlifters for New Zealand
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
- 20th-century New Zealand people
- 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen
- Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Weightlifters from Auckland
- Oceanian weightlifting biography stubs
- New Zealand sportspeople stubs