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Roilya Ranaivosoa

Personal information
Full name	Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa
Born	(1990-11-14) 14 November 1990 (age 34) Curepipe, Mauritius
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	47.96 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country	Mauritius
Sport	Weightlifting
Team	National team
Medal record Women's weightlifting Representing  Mauritius Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 49 kg 2018 Gold Coast 48 kg African Games 2015 Brazzaville 53 kg 2019 Rabat 49 kg Commonwealth Championships 2016 Penang 53 kg African Championships 2016 Yaoundé 48 kg 2017 Vacoas 48 kg 2018 Mahébourg 53 kg 2019 Cairo 49 kg 2013 Casablanca 69 kg
Updated on 30 January 2022

Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa (born 14 November 1990), commonly known as Roilya Ranaivosoa, is a Mauritian weightlifter of Malagasy descent, competing in the 48 kg category and representing Mauritius at international competitions.

She competed at several editions of the World Weightlifting Championships. She participated at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 58 kg event.

She represented Mauritius at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 11th place in the women's 49 kg event.

She won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England. In December 2022, she was elected as member of the IWF Athletes' Commission.

However, her career has been marred by a breach of anti-doping regulations, resulting in her resignation from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes' Commission and subsequent sanctions.

Ranaivosoa's involvement in a doping scandal came to light when the International Testing Agency (ITA), responsible for conducting anti-doping procedures for the IWF, charged her with sample swapping and tampering. The alleged offence occurred in 2016, approximately four months before she participated in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where she finished ninth in the 48-kilogram category. The alleged sample swapping occurred during an out-of-competition control in Romania, where she was undergoing a training camp under the controversial Romanian Coach Urdas Constantin.

Following the charges, Ranaivosoa resigned from the IWF Athletes' Commission.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Representing  Mauritius
Olympic Games
2021	Tokyo, Japan	49 kg	73	76	76	12	91	95	96	11	164	11
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	48 kg	73	78	80	10	93	98	100	10	173	9
World Championships
2019	Pattaya, Thailand	49 kg	73	76	77	26	92	95	98	14	171	20
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	49 kg	73	73	76	19	94	97	101	15	173	15
2017	Anaheim, United States	53 kg	75	78	80	13	95	100	100	17	178	12
2015	Houston, United States	48 kg	80	82	82	14	100	100	104	14	180	13
2014	Almaty, Kazakhstan	58 kg	76	79	83	28	96	101	105	23	180	25
Commonwealth Games
2018	Gold Coast, Australia	48 kg	73	76	78	2	90	94	94	2	170
2014	Glasgow, Scotland	58 kg	82	82	85	9	100	100	100	-	-	-
African Games
2019	Rabat, Morocco	49 kg	75	80	80		92	94	95		169
2015	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo *	53 kg	80	85	85		103	108	108		183
Commonwealth Championships
2016	Penang, Malaysia	53 kg	73	76	78	1	92	95	96	2	174
African Championships
2019	Cairo, Egypt	49 kg	71	74	74		93	96	98		164
2018	Mahébourg, Mauritius	53 kg	70	80	83		90	100	103		180
2017	Vacoas, Mauritius	48 kg	70	76	81		90	95	100		171
2016	Yaoundé, Cameroon	48 kg	73	78	81		95	102	102		180
2013	Casablanca, Morocco	69 kg	71	71	75	4	87	92	95		166

* Originally, she was second place in snatch and total, but later, the originally gold medallist Nigerian Elizabeth Onuah was disqualified.

References

1. "Roilya Ranaivosoa". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
2. "2015 Weightlifting World Championships - Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa". iwf.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
3. "Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa". iwf.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
4. "Women's 49 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
5. Rowbottom, Mike (30 July 2022). "India's Chanu reigns supreme in women's weightlifting 49kg class". Inside the Games. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
6. Oliver, Brian (21 December 2022). "Three Olympic weightlifting champions and 700,000 Instagram followers - the new IWF Athletes Commission". Inside the Games. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
7. "Doping ban shock for Nigeria". Independent Online. 24 January 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

External links

• Roilya Ranaivosoa at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Roilya Ranaivosoa at the International Weightlifting Results Project
• Roilya Ranaivosoa at the International Weightlifting Results Project
• Roilya Ranaivosoa at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
• Roilya Ranaivosoa at Olympics.com
• http://www.the-sports.org/marie-hanitra-roilya-ranaivosoa-weightlifting-spf367732.html
• http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Roilya+Ranaivosoa/Weightlifting+Olympics+Day+1/FyljYRTZl22
• http://www.lemauricien.com/topics/Roilya%20Ranaivosoa
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sh4B_4S7fw

Olympic Games
Preceded byKate Foo Kune	Flag bearer for  Mauritius Tokyo 2020 with Richarno Colin	Succeeded byAurelie Halbwachs Jean Gaël Laurent L'Entete

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