Snatching the gold at the Pan-Am
Junior weightlifting competition
Zainab Al-Mehdar
Pontiac November 3, 2022
Competing in his third international competition, 19-year-old Mansfield-et-Pontefract resident Xavier Lusignan took home the gold at the Pan-Am Junior weightlifting competition which took place in Peru on October 21.
“Once we got there. I mean, all the stars aligned perfectly. I had some good sleep and some good food, and on the day of the competition, I woke up and told myself that specific day I wasn’t accepting second place. So I started warming up in the back room, and we felt really good. And I managed to put on the best performance of my career so far,” said Lusignan.
After finishing in sixth place last year, he knew he had to do things differently to win this competition and that’s what he did. To prepare he focused on getting the two movements, the snatch and clean and jerk, which is the list he competes in, along with doing other training such as squats to work on his form.
Doing that he was able to perfect his . . .
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