Canada’s Maude Charron wins silver in weightlifting at Paris Games

PARIS — Canada’s Maude Charron won a silver medal in the women’s 59-kilogram weightlifting event at the Summer Olympics on Thursday.

She lifted 106kg in the snatch and 130kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 236kg to win Canada’s 20th medal at the Paris Games.

China’s Luo Shifang, the reigning world champion, won gold with an Olympic-record total of 241kg (107 snatch and 134 clean and jerk), while Kuo Hsing-Chun of Taiwan, the defending Olympic champion at 59kg, won the bronze with a total of 235 kg (105 snatch and 130 clean and jerk).

Charron, 31, attempted a final clean and jerk of 132kg, the highest weight she had ever attempted, but was unable to complete it.