Kanah Shenelle Andrews-Nahu (born 18 January 2001) is a New Zealand weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in the girls' +63kg event at the

2018 Summer Youth Olympics The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held ...

held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the time, she finished in 4th place but Supatchanin Khamhaeng of Thailand was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance.

Career

At the

2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships The 2019 Junior World Weightlifting Championships were held in Suva, Fiji at the National Gymnasium from 1 to 8 June 2019. Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean ...

held in Suva, Fiji, she won the gold medal in the women's 76kg Snatch event and the bronze medal in the women's 76kg event. As a result, she became the first weightlifter from New Zealand to win a gold medal at this event. A month later, at the

2019 Pacific Games The 2019 Pacific Games was the sixteenth edition of the Pacific Games. The Games were held in Apia, Samoa, returning there for the first time since 2007. It was the third time overall that the Pacific Games were held in Samoa. The event was init ...

held in Apia, Samoa, she won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event. She represented New Zealand at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 13th place in the women's 87kg event.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews-Nahu, Kanah Living people 2001 births Sportspeople from Auckland New Zealand female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for New Zealand 21st-century New Zealand women Pacific Games gold medalists Pacific Games medalists in weightlifting