Jason Roberts (weightlifter)
 Jason Roberts Clean and Jerk - 192.5 kg (Silver Medal) 1990 Commonwealth games | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
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| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
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Jason Bryce Roberts is an Australian weightlifter. He competed for Australia at 1990 Commonwealth Games in the Heavyweight division, winning three Silver Medals in the snatch, clean and jerk and overall events.[1]
His anti-drugs stand was noted in the 1990 Australian Senate inquiry into drugs in sport.[2] In 1992, Jason Roberts was vocally against the importation of Rumanian and Bulgarian weightlifters, specifically for the Barcelona Olympics, on the grounds that they had no interest in migrating to Australia. Subsequently, following the Barcelona Games, most of them left Australia. Michael Noonan, the executive director of Australian Weightlifting Federation between 1990 and 1993, confirmed that AWF "bought" and supported the Bulgarians and Romanian weightlifters to come to Australia in the 1990s.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "1990 Australian Team and Results" (PDF). Commonwealthgames.org.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
- ^ Drugs in sport: second report of the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation and the Arts. Parliamentary paper / The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Australian Govt. Pub. Service. May 1990. ISBN 9780644117579. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Michael Noonan (Nov 17, 2005) on the issue of AWF support for Bulgarians and Romanians who came to Australia in the 1990s". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
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