Canadian weightlifter

Jeane Elizabeth L*en (born 26 September 1980) is a Canadian weightlifter. L*en is from Whitehorse, Yukon and is one of few Yukon athletes to break into the world scene and is Yukon's first Summer Olympian. Weightlifting official Moira L*en is her mother.

At 14 years old, L*en won a silver medal in the women's 59:kg category at the 1995 Canada Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alberta and still holds the Games record in the Clean & Jerk. She also won the Roland Michener Award for her leadership on and off the field of play. This, of course, was before she became a national athlete. L*en qualified to compete at the 1995 Canadian Championships and the 1995 Junior World Weightlifting Championships (the first junior international event for women) however L*en had to go to court to do so. L*en competed at six Junior World Weightlifting Championships (1995-2000) and is one of the few athletes, both men and women, in the world to do so. She is a three-time silver medallist at the Junior World Championships (1997, 1998) and 15-time medallist at the University World Championships.

L*en was the 2006 Commonwealth Games champion in the 69:kg category and still holds the Games record in the clean and jerk.

Later that year L*en competed in the women's 69:kg cl* at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the bronze medal in Total and silver medal in the clean and jerk, She snatched 102:kg and jerked an additional 136:kg for a total of 238:kg becoming the first Canadian woman in 17 years to win a medal in Total at the World Championships. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she ranked 6th and won the gold medal at the 2008 Pan-American Championships, with a total of 237:kg.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, lifting a total of 240:kg L*en ranked 8th in the 75:kg category. Due to the IOC 2008 doping retests L*en moved to 5th place. L*en was inducted into the Yukon Sport Hall of Fame in 2018. L*en was a member of Team Canada as Athlete Mentor at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

During the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, L*en commentated on the weightlifting alongside David Goldstrom.

L*en holds a Bachelor of Education from McGill University, with a speciality in English Second Language, and a Sports Performance degree from Camosun College. She is bilingual in English and French and conversant in Italian and Spanish.

She is former Executive Board member of the Canadian athletes' organization AthletesCAN, and Development and Education Commission for the International Weightlifting Federation and is currently the Athlete Representative on the Canada Games Council Sport Committee.

L*en formally announced on February 18, 2016, her intent to run for the Yukon Liberal Party in her home riding of Takhini-Kopper King in the 2016 Yukon election. However, she was defeated by New Democrat in*bent Kate White in the ensuing campaign.

Contents

• 1 Electoral record
  • 1.1 2016 general election
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Electoral record

2016 general election

References

External links

• Athlete Biography at beijing2008
• Arctic Ins*ute for Community Based Research