Canadian Olympic gold medalist Maude Charron of Rimouski, Quebec won a gold medal this month at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships in Forde, Norway. The silver medal happened on October 5 in the women’s 63 kilogram division.
Charron lifted 236 kilograms. She lifted 103 kilograms in the snatch, and 133 kilograms in the clean and jerk. Ri Suk of North Korea won the gold medal by lifting 253 kilograms. Yenny Sinisterra of Colombia won the bronze medal by lifting 231 kilograms. Charron reached the podium by five kilograms. Elreen Ando of the Philippines finished in fourth place by also lifting 231 kilograms. Sinisterra had the tiebreaker as she weighed less than Ando.
Suk set the world records in the snatch (111 kilograms), clean and jerk (142 kilograms), and combined total. Suk was one of nine weightlifters at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships to set a combined total world record. The other eight were Muhammed Furkan Ozbek of Turkey (324 kilograms in the men’s 65 kilogram division), Weeraphon Wichuma of Thailand (346 kilograms in the men’s 71 kilogram division), Yeison Lopez of Colombia (387 kilograms in the men’s 88 kilogram division), Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan (428 kilograms in the men’s 428 kilogram division), Ri Song-gum of North Korea (213 kilograms in the women’s 48 kilogram division), Il-gyong Kim of North Korea (236 kilograms in the women’s 58 kilogram division), Song Kuk-hyang of North Korea (270 kilograms in the women’s 69 kilogram division), and Olivia Reeves of the United States (278 kilograms in the women’s 77 kilogram division).
This was Charron’s second medal at the World Weightlifting Championships. She won bronze in Bogota, Colombia in the women’s 59 kilogram division in 2022. Charron won gold in the women’s 64 kilogram division at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 and silver in the women’s 59 kilogram division at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The silver medal at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships will give Charron confidence as she prepares for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
