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The IWF Junior World Championships saw Malta’s leading youngster Tenishia Thornton win the 55kg B group and finish in 6th place overall in the snatch, 9th place overall in the clean and jerk and 8th place overall in the total. Her 5 successful attempts were all good enough to break her current 55kg senior national
Thornton won the Female Youth Athlete of the Year Award at the 62nd edition of the SPORTMALTA Awards Ghazliet Sportivi Nazzjonali. This was the second consecutive year that this Award was won by Thornton in this category.
The Malta Weightlifting Association is beyond proud to announce that for the first time ever they will have multiple lifters representing Malta at the Commonwealth Games this year in Birmingham. After successfully participating at several previous editions of these Games with a single athlete, this year the MWA have 4 female athletes who will be
