Robin Byrd-Goad

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Robin Byrd-Goad (born January 17, 1970) was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States. Her coach was John Coffee.

[edit] Weightlifting achievements

  • Senior World Champion (1994)
  • Olympic Games team member (2000)
  • Pan Am Games Champion (1999)
  • Senior National Champion (1988, 1989, 1991-1996, 1999, & 2001)
  • Set one Senior World record during career
  • All-Time Junior and Senior American record holder in snatch and total
  • Junior and Senior American record holder in snatch, clean and jerk, and total (1896-1992)
  • Senior American record holder in snatch, clean and jerk, and total (1993-1997)

[edit] Notes of interest

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.

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