Christine Girard

• Olympic champion weightlifter Christine Girard named Pan Am Games chef de mission

  The 38-year-old from Rouyn-Noranda, Que., will lead the Canadian team into Santiago's Pan Am Games from Oct. 20 to Nov. 5.

  Canada

  Feb 16, 2023
  
• Quebec 2018 Year in Review: Courage, strength of athletes highlight top sports stories

  From the king of the hill to a knockout punch, these are the top five Quebec sports stories of 2018.

  Sports

  Dec 30, 2018
  
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• This week on ‘Focus Montreal’: Dec. 8

  This week on Focus Montreal, hear about the Montreal Institute for Palliative Care's Compassionate Communities project, learn about a teen-run employment agency and meet Christine Girard, Canada's first female Olympic weightlifting champion.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2018
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• Canadian weightlifter finally gets Olympic gold medal, 6 years after competition

  "If I had those medals on time I would have had a different life, that is for sure."

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2018
• White Rock’s Christine Girard can now call herself an Olympic champion

  Two-time Olympian, Christine Girard, is now Canada's first ever Olympic champion is weightlifting, having her bronze medal upgraded to gold in the women's 63 kilogram category at the London 2012 Games.

  Sports

  Apr 19, 2018
• Canada’s Christine Girard awarded weightlifting gold in London 2012 Olympics after doping scandal

  Canada’s Christine Girard will have her 2012 London Olympics weightlifting bronze medal upgraded to gold after the two women that finished ahead of her tested positive for doping.

  Sports

  Apr 19, 2018
• Canada’s Christine Girard closer to Olympic weightlifting gold after another Russian stripped of medal

  The International Olympic Committee has stripped Russia's Svetlana Tzarukaeva of the silver medal she won at the London Olympics after retesting of her samples showed evidence of the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.

  Sports

  Apr 5, 2017
• Canada’s Christine Girard may see Bronze from London Olympics upgraded

  Canadian weightlifter Christine Girard's bronze medal from the London Olympics could be upgraded to gold after the two women who finished ahead of her were nabbed in doping retests.

  Canada

  Jul 27, 2016