Richie Patterson

New Zealand Olympian: 1072

commonwealth games

Medals

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Biography

Richie will be the first weightlifter to represent New Zealand at four Commonwealth Games. By games time Richie will have been competing in weightlifting for 20 years and hopes to defend his title as the men’s under 85kg weightlifting champion.

He also competed in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games placing 15th.

In 2017 Richie won the National Weightlifting Championships and placed second at the 2017 Oceania Weightlifting Championships.

Richie Patterson and his wife Pip spend their time training, running a weightlifting/crossfit facility in Auckland and raising their son Cooper. 

athlete

Fast facts

Sport
Weightlifting
Birth place
Auckland
Born
1983
Height
167cm

Olympic Summer GamesRio 2016

Weightlifting(85kg - Men)

  • Performance: 330kg
  • Result: 16
  • Placed: 16 of 23
  • Snatch: 149kg, C&J: 181kg
  • Placed 6th in Group B

Commonwealth GamesDelhi 2010

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  • Performance: 331.0
  • Result: 02
  • Placed: 2 of 20

Olympic Summer GamesBeijing 2008

Weightlifting(77kg Combined - Men)

  • Performance: 300
  • Result: 9th
  • Placed: 21 of 28
  • Snatch: 140 145 147x - 145
  • Clean & Jerk: 160 165x 165x - 160

Commonwealth GamesMelbourne 2006

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  • Performance: 293
  • Result: 4th
  • Snatch
  • Round 1 128; Round 2 135;
  • Clean and Jerk
  • Round 1 158