Robin Elizabeth Goad (born January 17, 1970, in Newnan, Georgia), also known as Robin Byrd-Goad, is a retired female

Olympic weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

from the

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, who competed at the

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. She won the bronze medal in the women's – 53 kg division at the

1998 World Weightlifting Championships The 1998 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Lahti, Finland from November 10 to November 15, 1998. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Sn ...

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. Goad competed in the first Women's World Championships in 1987 at age seventeen and was the only female Olympian to compete in the 2000 Olympics who was also present at that first women's Worlds. She currently teaches Physical Education at an elementary school.

Weightlifting achievements

*Junior and Senior American record holder in snatch,

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

, and total (1986–1992) *Senior National Champion (1988, 1989, 1991–1996, 1999, & 2001) *Senior American record holder in snatch, clean and jerk, and total (1993–1997) *Senior World Champion (1994) *

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Champion (1999) *Olympic Games team member (2000) *Set one Senior World record during career *All-Time Junior and Senior American record holder in snatch and total

References

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External links

Robin Byrd-Goad - Hall of Fame at Weightlifting Exchange
1970 births Living people Weightlifters at the 1999 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for the United States Sportspeople from Newnan, Georgia American female weightlifters Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in weightlifting World Weightlifting Championships medalists Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games 21st-century American sportswomen 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-weightlifting-bio-stub